“He’ll be right as rain when he comes home,” a fire department captain assured Payne’s mother.

"They couldn't make sense of it... this young woman who apparently several hours earlier had been as right as rain was dying slowly in front of their eyes and they couldn't work out why."

Patzert developed a reputation of being “as right as rain” on El Niño- and La Niña-influenced weather patterns, but he was among those who bet on a wet winter in California in 2015–16.

“My name is Nan Johnson, not ma’am. My call was an overreaction. I’m fine. Right as rain.”

I stared at her shoes, wishing that when I looked up, it’d be Nan standing there, right as rain just like she’d said.