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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums2.05" of rain since 1 a.m.
Great day to be a duck!
Happy Monday, y'all...
rurallib
(62,415 posts)dessert? Ocean? other?
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)I'd kill for rain.
(I'm in California, where it doesn't rain in the summer... or in a drought )
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Rochester, NY
Nearly 5" of rain when it stopped late this afternoon.
Roads washed away, homes flooded and vehicles stranded.
What a mess...
I have 10" of standing water in the backyard from the runoff.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)But green year 'round, right?
I've heard stories about NY in the summer-- my parents lived in Ithaca and said it was unbelievably uncomfortable.
No offense!! It's dry as a bone out west, particularly in summer. Fire danger is always lurking.
Some wacko started a fire near where I live-- it did a lot of damage, though no homes were destroyed. Such a strange fixation.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)However at the moment, and has been much of the case this summer, it's unseasonably cool. Tonight it's 56 degrees...very uncommon for July in Upstate, NY.
We generally only get a handful of 90+ days per year...
Our recent rainfall however is our excess, however your desire.
I wish you and those in CA some much needed relief.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)Except, perhaps, the repukes, who have always sought the opposite of what normal, sane people want.
By the way, what does the humidity in NY run? It was 70% indoors the last few days and it was so heavy... I mean the air, literally. I know it's good for plants, good for the skin, lungs, and all that, but terribly hard to bear.
My mom said she could take a shower and be dripping wet with perspiration half an hour later. Yikes!!
Right now it's 57 degrees and very nice.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)I heard there we a few to the East. Last weekend I drove past the San Luis Reservoir and it was sooooooo low.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)we're still utterly helpless as to something as basic as rain. And the weather in general.
Scary