glad I can swim...

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glad I can swim...

June 26, 2008, 08:50:34 AM

http://www.weather.gov/alerts/mo.html#MOC115.EAXFLSEAX.071000

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AREAS PARTICULARLY HARD HIT INCLUDE
THE COUNTIES OF LINN...LIVINGSTON...CHARITON...WHERE UPWARDS OF 7 TO
9 INCHES OF RAIN FELL LAST NIGHT. SEVERAL MAIN ROADS CLOSED ACROSS
THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...U.S. HIGHWAY 36 EAST OF CHILLICOTHE WHERE
MEDICINE CREEK CROSSES THE ROAD...

So because I work in Chillicothe, I'm not able to go in today, ughh.
Also, I measured 9 inches and 2 tenths of rain for Wednesday, and have already gotten 2 and 3/4 inches of rain today...swimming anyone? :hick:

glad I can swim...

Reply #1 – June 26, 2008, 10:33:20 AM

Keep that nice lookin' bird of yours on high ground!

glad I can swim...

Reply #2 – June 26, 2008, 01:12:38 PM

Send some of it here. We haven't had any real rain (except for a thunderstorm or two) in weeks...

glad I can swim...

Reply #3 – June 26, 2008, 01:46:38 PM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken;224702

Send some of it here. We haven't had any real rain (except for a thunderstorm or two) in weeks...

As a farmer (and a Nova Scotian who remembers last 'summer' [I use that word loosely]... I'll add the word 'famer' to that list too.

) I call BS. We've had plenty of rain, lots of cloud cover, and almost enough sun to make for some great crops this year. If you want to know what kind of growing season we're getting, come see my lawn. :hick:

glad I can swim...

Reply #4 – June 26, 2008, 02:07:57 PM

i got 4-6" of water in my basp00get....it's free, but you gotta come get it out! ever last fvckin' drop!
chop chop boys, there's plenty to give away!

glad I can swim...

Reply #5 – June 26, 2008, 02:47:41 PM

Quote from: FordTruckFreeek;224706

i got 4-6" of water in my basp00get....it's free, but you gotta come get it out! ever last fvckin' drop!
chop chop boys, there's plenty to give away!

Yes, we are getting short on water, up here. I'm sure a truck will be by any minute now. ;)

glad I can swim...

Reply #6 – June 26, 2008, 02:47:48 PM

I am so sorry for all the stuff you guys are having to go through man!!!

Back in summer 2004 when all the hurricanes came through NC in a weeks time (We had just moved here from MI, welcome to the south) we came VERY close to flooding. The "creek" about 5 doors down the street turned into a RIVER. The water down the street was up to the top of the stop signs. The water creeped into our back yard and under our house (crawl space) and thank god the only damage was a shot furnace control. All the homes down the street were under water.

glad I can swim...

Reply #7 – June 26, 2008, 04:14:49 PM

Quote from: oldraven;224704

As a farmer (and a Nova Scotian who remembers last 'summer' [I use that word loosely]... I'll add the word 'famer' to that list too. ) I call BS. We've had plenty of rain, lots of cloud cover, and almost enough sun to make for some great crops this year. If you want to know what kind of growing season we're getting, come see my lawn. :hick:

As a rural dweller who has rarely seen his well so low, who lives on two very dry rivers, who has already had to have water trucked to the cottage swimming pool (before even being able to swim in it yet this year), who has an F-150 covered in about an inch of dust from traveling logging roads, who has heard radio reports of city beaches closing down for bacteria (the earliest it's ever happened, school isn't even out yet!) and who could see the smoke from the forest fires of a few weeks ago that were 40 miles away from his back patio, I say...

STOP HOGGING ALL THE RAIN!!!

J/K - we did have a wet, miserable early spring here, but nature turned off the taps in mid May. There were a few showers the weekend after the forest fires that helped the firefighters (less than 5mm fell), and we had a T-storm last Thursday in which about 30mm fell but it fell so fast it didn't soak into the ground and all ran off, but other than that, no rain. The forecast threatens showers every day but they fail to materialize. My lawn is already brown, and is only still growing in shady areas (under the big maple). It's not as dry as it is normally around mid August, but it's certainly very dry for late June.

The Dept of Natural Resources fire index map:

glad I can swim...

Reply #8 – June 26, 2008, 04:51:15 PM

as an update, wanted to add that I now have a sump pump in the basp00get, and another line of strong storms is moving in from the northwest...man...when it rains it pours.
In Brookfield, 5 miles from me, there's houses being evacuated now...

glad I can swim...

Reply #9 – June 26, 2008, 06:48:03 PM

yuck. I've had to rip interiors out of flood cars at work and power wash everything. That water is so nasty. In cedar rapids after the water drained away, the city crews popped the manhole covers and the mud was to the top of the drain cover. The sewage treatment plant has been offline for a couple of weeks now dumping it all into the river.

On the upside, there ends up being pretty cheap cars to buy up.

glad I can swim...

Reply #10 – June 27, 2008, 06:24:41 AM

We are having another year of severe drought here in Georgia. I sure wish we had some of your rain. It will take probably 40 inches of rain to refill Lake Lanier if it fell today. Each day the lake drops another 1/4"(about 6mm) due to evaporation. We haven't been able to wash cars or water lawns(any outside use) in 3 years.

glad I can swim...

Reply #11 – June 27, 2008, 07:27:25 AM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken;224729

As a rural dweller who has rarely seen his well so low, who lives on two very dry rivers, who has already had to have water trucked to the cottage swimming pool (before even being able to swim in it yet this year), who has an F-150 covered in about an inch of dust from traveling logging roads, who has heard radio reports of city beaches closing down for bacteria (the earliest it's ever happened, school isn't even out yet!) and who could see the smoke from the forest fires of a few weeks ago that were 40 miles away from his back patio, I say...

STOP HOGGING ALL THE RAIN!!!

J/K - we did have a wet, miserable early spring here, but nature turned off the taps in mid May. There were a few showers the weekend after the forest fires that helped the firefighters (less than 5mm fell), and we had a T-storm last Thursday in which about 30mm fell but it fell so fast it didn't soak into the ground and all ran off, but other than that, no rain. The forecast threatens showers every day but they fail to materialize. My lawn is already brown, and is only still growing in shady areas (under the big maple). It's not as dry as it is normally around mid August, but it's certainly very dry for late June.

That's pretty crazy. It rained again yesterday (from the afternoon on) and all night down here, but I'm right in the middle of that blue area on the Eastern S. I knew it was dry down that way, but not that dry. It looks like Halifax is acting like a weather vortex, sucking all of your rain into the city (where it can have a party with the smog and take a hit of acid).