Here is the link to the national drought monitor, it gets printed every Sunday in our local paper here:

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

I hear you, I'm getting a little Condello envy, it seems his place keeps getting all the good rain around here and our pond keeps getting missed. Early yesterday morning south Lincoln got .625-1" of rain, our pond on the north side got zero. Our pond is still down about 22" right now. \:\(