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A flower to Mother Nature for giving us a monsoon that has exceeded expectations.

The Star's Aaron Mackey reported Thursday that according to the National Weather Service this year's monsoon is the second-wettest on record, and there's still more than a month to go before we officially start to dry out.

As of Wednesday, Tucson had received 7.84 inches of rain during the monsoon. For the year, Tucson has received 8.56 inches of rain, about 2 inches above normal.

Getting this much rain causes problems, of course. Some residents of our community have suffered flood damage to homes and property. Thousands have had to endure intermittent power outages and the inconvenience of road closures. Countless homeowners have lost trees. And then there are the backaches that come from pulling out all the weeds that have sprung up.

That's the price for the abundant precipitation that helps replenish our aquifer, waters our plants and eases our worries of a summer drought. Our community needed this rain.

We hope that the storms don't cause too much trouble and that they keep coming.

A thorn to snakes on planes — not the movie, but the real ones.

"Snakes on a Plane," a movie starring Samuel L. Jackson, hits theaters today. But snakes on planes, and buses, aren't only the stuff of fiction.

USA Today reported Tuesday about a handful of instances in which snakes popped up in planes at most inopportune times.

In one case, a man was piloting a four-seat Piper Warrior when he got into a struggle with a 4-foot black snake. He eventually managed to make an emergency landing with the snake in one hand and the steering wheel in the other.

USA Today reported that people used to sneak pet snakes onboard in their carry-on luggage. That has become harder, if not impossible, since improved security screening.

Meanwhile, a pet snake got loose on a Detroit bus Saturday. Commuters had to get off the bus until mechanics arrived to remove a seat and free the snake.

"Snakes on a Plane" is giving the slithery creatures a bad rap. Still, we prefer to see the crawlers on the big screen and not close to us in the confined space of a bus or an airplane. That's creepy.

A flower for an arrest in the 10-year-old murder case of JonBenét Ramsey.

Ever since the 6-year-old beauty queen was murdered in Colorado, the case has been one of America's most-watched unsolved crimes.

Time will tell if the suspect arrested in Thailand, 42-year-old American John Mark Karr, is JonBenét's killer. For now, however, the arrest lifts the cloud of suspicion that has hung over the Ramsey family.