WET AGAIN? If you thought Orange County...

WET AGAIN? If you thought Orange County had just gone through the rainiest January and February on record, not quite. It was only the fifth worst rainfall--but the second worst in the past 15 years. . . . The county is bracing for another downpour that weather experts say could be the worst one yet this year: Rain expected today, and getting heavier tonight and Friday, could produce as much as four to five inches of rainfall in the county’s eastern foothills and canyons. (B1, B8)

STILL KICKING: Are you getting used to the phrase the St. Louis Rams ? Not Rick Horwitz of Orange and other members of the Los Angeles Rams Boosters Club--(714) 5GO-RAMS. They’re launching a phone/fax campaign to persuade National Football League team owners to vote next week against the Rams’ request to move. . . . “I know it has been hard to be a Rams fan the last few years,” says Horwitz. “But I really want them to stay.” Call the Boosters Club if you want the name, phone and fax number of all NFL owners.

ON TARGET: Latino humorist Rick Najera brings his one-man show, “The Pain of the Macho,” to the San Juan Capistrano Regional Library on Saturday (OC Live!). The San Diego native portrays eight different characters in his show--including a government official at the border patrol checkpoint south of San Clemente. . . . His inspiration? “I pull from the headlines,” says Najera. “What good satire does is comment on right now.”

PLAYING IT YOUNG: Jonathan Bellows of Placentia, who is 14, wants to be a playwright. What better way to start than to write plays? . . . Bellows’ social science teacher at Tuffree Middle School, Bill Melvin, was so impressed with a Bellows play he showed it to others. Result: The school put on the play, “Colours,” for the public Wednesday night in its auditorium. It repeats again tonight. Bellows, who is white, wrote about the feelings of a black youth entering an all-white school. . . . Says Bellows’ older sister Briana: “We’re all extremely proud of him.”

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Rainy Days

The county has come through its fifth rainiest January-February on record. Totals in inches: 1. 1969: 17.66 2. 1993: 15.90 3. 1980: 15.85 4. 1978: 15.26 5. 1995: 14.43 Source: WeatherData Inc.