This week is all about Ida: The storm that made landfall in Louisiana as a 150-mph Category 4 hurricane Sunday was downgraded to a tropical storm Monday at 5 a.m., although it continues to pose a threat. As the wind field unravels, the storm will unload catastrophic amounts of rainfall.

We will have to deal with that rainfall around here from Tuesday night into Thursday morning.

Severe thunderstorm warnings were in effect earlier Monday evening for parts of Fauquier,