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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf it doesn't stop raining I am going to go insane
or more insane, anyway.
I'm so frickin' sick of rain rain rain rain I was just yelling at the clouds to get their sorry, soggy asses to California.
They are not listening to me, but continue to pour down more rain on ground that is so saturated, there is not a spot on my acreage that doesn't squish when you step in it like a big gloppy sponge.
I have to fix holes in the roof and a bunch of other stuff outside, but it won't quit raining long enough.
At least it's been in the 60s so there is that, and at least rain doesn't trap you like snow but DAYUM.
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)I don't have to shovel it.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)It's been raining for what feels like weeks here.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)It's been freezing.
Feels like cold hell.
The cold weather almost makes you just want to curl up and do nuttin, at least it does that to me.
Spring is here right now, and I am grateful it's not cold at all going up to 70 next week. But I'm just sick of rain.
Here's hoping you thaw out soon, too.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Pay no attenton to us in SoCal. When the earthquakes come we'll get our comeuppance.
Did I mention it was 80° here today and it will be 83° Saturday?
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)so nanny nanny boo boo!
But I AM jonesing for your sunshine. I'll trade you!
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)'Well, you won't have to drive too far.'
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)it won't take much here!
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)2 weeks ago it was -13 degrees windchill -27 degrees with 10 inches of snow on the ground.
It stayed very cold for 1 week.
The snow did not budge.
Then it warmed up into the high 50's and rained.
All the snowed melted and the flood warnings went out.
The next day it snowed another 10 inches.
3 days later in was in the high 50's and low 60's.
The snow melted.
Now it has been raining for 2 days.
A sponge doesn't even describe how soggy my land is.
every pair of shoes I have has mud on them, forget trying to keep the kitchen floor clean, when the cat and dog come inside with muddy paws.
And it's still raining a little.
Here's hoping we all dry out and that the West Coast gets "blessed" with some downpours, too.
"Hey, Nature! WE don't need any more rain for a while. But you can send some to our friends out west. Thanks!"
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)as well.
My dog hates to go out if it is raining.
If my cat comes in wet she stands on a throw rug and waits for me to wrap her in a towel.
She waits on the throw rug in the warm months so I can check her for ticks.
She will also lay down if I say, "Down she goes".
My cat is very intelligent and well behaved.
I hope I didn't sound like I was complaining.
The rain and snow keep my cistern full.
I haven't bought a load of water in 4 years.
It is messy trying to walk anywhere off the beaten path.
I have mud in new places.
As long as the house doesn't spring a leak or the driveway doesn't get washed away; (That happened 3 years after I moved here. It also took out a bridge, and the town flooded for the first time in recorded history) I guess I am ahead of the game.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)I still have one of my kids' cats that I was supposed to take care of "til I get out of college" ( glad it's not a kid, but still, I am not a cat person ) and she loves to walk all over everything with her muddy paws.
She's cute and a good mouser and she sleeps near me, but she can be very destructive.
Yeah, my well is absolutely full of water, so i can't complain about that.
There are worse problems in the world, but day after day of clouds is not the norm here. I see where Londoners and Seattleites can get depressed!
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I love cats. I had several that would sit and shake and fetch, but never any that learned to stay put or anything like that.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)She is my first cat.
I got her when I was 50.
I was terrified of cats !
I needed a barn cat at my new home.
I had a horse so there was hay and feed in the barn.
Long story short, I showed her the little box 1 time, she caught her first mouse at 7 weeks, she is an inside outside cat, and she sleeps on my lap.
The majority of people comment on how pretty she is.
She is a calico.
She still seems spooky to me at times.
I have always been large dog lover.
LuvNewcastle
(16,856 posts)It finally let up this afternoon. I'm glad because the St. Patrick Day festivities will happen today here in Biloxi. They alway have a big party down there and it would have been a shame if they had been rained out.
Have fun at the St. Paddy's Day festivities if you go.
The Southeast has been hammered with rain lately and more on the way next week. We're all gonna slide off the mountain up here.
shanti
(21,675 posts)send it to us here in Cali!!!!
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Last night I was thinking just how stupid the whole setup is.
But the clouds are indifferent.
Maybe if you beautiful Californians get out there en masse and do a rain dance... naked....something will give!
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)the last round of snow is melted, the ground pretty well dried out and it is springtime. our winter wasn't bad, it just hit late after we'd been spoiled by the mild weather.
i need to get my happy ass out for a walk this weekend.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Trying to get this place fixed up to sell so I can move out there.
You guys were actually warmer than we were here in TN for a lot of days this winter.
I can't wait to get out there.
Have fun on your walk!
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)but we still have another couple of months before we're out of snow season.
what area are you looking at, if you don't mind my asking? i've been here my whole life and have little motivation to leave.
i'll bring the camera out on the walk and dump some pics in the photography group or the lounge. i got the camera for christmas, so it's been a lot of stark landscapes and i can't wait for the color to come out.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)but I am looking around Boulder, since it seems that's a more liberal area.
I've heard that SE CO has a lot of fracking issues, but I loved that area when I visited.
Def not Colorado Springs!
I'd love any tips you have.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)not quite as liberal as boulder, but just as beautiful, less expensive and less likely to be hammered by snow in the winter. of course, a lot of people in my city complain about us becoming boulder-lite because we voted to ban fracking and the city council tried to ban plastic grocery bags (holy shit, you would have thought they ordered the murder of all first borns).
we're in the same congressional district as boulder, so no bagger for a rep (although polis is supporting the fast-tracking of tpp). my state rep is sponsoring death with dignity and universal healthcare legislation this session. my sheriff, however, is a nut who first sued to overturn the gun control legislation passed after the aurora shooting and is now suing to overturn amendment 64.
one thing that catches people off-guard when they move here is how white it is. there's a large hispanic/latino population, but there's a reason my area is called vanilla valley. both cities are college towns, so you do have to deal with whooping idiots if you go out on the weekend. csu is planning on shoe-horning a new football stadium in the middle of town and that has the community in an uproar (i think it's a horrible idea). our local paper is a gannet rag.
it's about a 45 minute drive to boulder from here, but you could look at one of the surrounding cities like longmont or lafayette if you want to be closer to boulder.
i only go to denver for museums and concerts, so i really can't say anything about living there, and i'm definitely with you on the springs. beautiful country but far too conservative.
hope this was helpful
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)I can live anywhere since I have a work-at-home position ( ghostwriter, not selling weed for all you smart asses! ) that isn't going anywhere any time soon. They really like my work. I just have to get more clients lol.
But I want to be out in the boonies like I am now. It's so peaceful here most of the time, it freaks people out when they come from the city to visit.
I was in contact with a gal who wanted to share a place on a horse farm somewhere about halfway between Denver and Aspen, which is what I'm looking for. Really nice person. But then I had planned on keeping this place. The way the South keeps going backwards, I don't see any hope for anything positive in TN in the future.
The South just gets poorer and poorer and I'm done with it.
Instead of buying right away, I plan on renting for a few months until I find something suitable. I didn't know anything about Ft. Collins before your post, so that's another area I will consider now, knowing that there's no fracking.
Thank you so much, fizz!
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)same thing in communities with similar bans and there is fracking in neighboring communities, but we keep fighting it.
you can be in the boonies and still be near town around both here and boulder quite easily. if you're up for the winter driving, head up into the hills.
i didn't even think to mention nederland. funky little town outside boulder and home to frozen dead guy days
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)so that's funny you mention it. It seems like such a cool, funky place from what I've read.
I hope you win that fight
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Luckily I love rain, and my ducks love it too!
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)I love rain, too, but not this relentless stuff. The ground is like mush everywhere you step. I've had my shoes pulled off by mud a few times looking after the critters.
Seems to have stopped for a minute. I'm gonna try to make a cold frame with an old glass shower door if it stays quit. Big if!
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Tomorrow should be nice.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Have an awesome weekend cwydro
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Tsiyu!
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)With the rain comes the HUGE, GIANT "Weed Bushes" that grow overnight and have 5 foot tall stalks. I have never seen weeds grow faster than they do in Texas. Also this grass-type lawn we have (St. Augustine) that creeps out over the cement in about 5 minutes after you cut it.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)I've already got ants coming in the house!
It's gonna be crazy weedy here, too, but sawbriars and pokeweed are the banes of my existence.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I've been here a while already. It's Sprummer where I live and raining and raining and raining and hot and muggy and horrible feeling. I'm already insane. I'll save you a seat for when you get here.
I'll bring the cinnamon buns and straitjackets!
Look for the crazy lady wearing flowered muck boots!
roody
(10,849 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Flood or drought.
Seems no in between
( writing a song ober here )
If I could send you some rain, I surely would do so.
Yelling at the clouds did not seem to phase them.
valerief
(53,235 posts)back where it belongs and won't be dripped on. Gotta get those heating coils for the roof before next year.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Rain did melt our snow pretty quickly, which only added to the squishiness.
I've got leaks, too, but mostly in the bathroom skylight and near the vent pipe.
Can't do anything to patch them til it stops this incessant rain.
Here's hoping you can be rearranging furniture soon!
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Houston is a "fungal jungle" and a "Freon-controlled life support system".
The climate is "humid subtropical". That means "your basic jungle". Houston used to get 40 to 60 inches of rain a year. When I was a kid it would freeze down to the mid-20s 3 or 4 times in a winter, and stay below freezing about a day or two. In the 2000s (the oughties?) they did not have a hard freeze in Houston for seven years, I believe. What climate change? They don't have massive floods in the summertime now either.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Did I mention? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
We get a substantial rainfall here on the Cumberland Plateau, very lush Eastern Woodlands are the result.
But this is becoming an ark-level deluge!
Love the "fungal jungle, Freon-controlled life support system!"
At least up here, it is muggy, but the summers are cooler than down where the flatlanders live. I rarely ran the AC before it stopped working a few years back, but it does get super moldy here too due to the rain, so I would get it fixed if there weren't a million other things to work on first.
The moss is loving it.
Throd
(7,208 posts)Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Mother nature is just gonna drive us all off the deep end.
The truth is climate change, more likely, but it seems so unfair that we are flooded and you are parched. Wish i could send all the rainclouds your way!
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AngryDem001
(684 posts)This is a HUGE reason that I love living in the PNW so much.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)nothing better than cozying up in the house to a good book or show while the rain patters on the roof.
But when your whole property is 6 inches of mud, it's a little overwhelming when it just keeps coming.
It is better than drought though.
Glad you are happy where you live!
JI7
(89,264 posts)i feel the weather is nice when it's overcast, raining , dark etc.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Then when you've scraped off your rust and moss, send the rain our way.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)I could use some rays and some of that Cali medical grade! Gotta be a "good" girl here in the Dark Ages of the South.
At least it is nice and warm here, in the 60's now which is my favorite temp to work outside. If it would just stop dripping!
I wish I had the power to send next week's rains to you, but I will focus real hard and imagine all you beautiful CA peeps doing a naked rain dance on the coast! Then maybe some rain will manifest.
calimary
(81,466 posts)Please!
California needs it BADLY! We'll take whatever you don't want!
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)Make sure it's a really BIG big box. Check.
Address to calimary in californy. Check.
It's on its way! Tracking number: 1i2a3m4s5i6c7k8of9i0t
Hope you guys get some gentle, abundant rains soon, calimary
calimary
(81,466 posts)Thank you for the great play-by-play, though! Made me literally thirst for more!
I have often wondered why we couldn't somehow ship the big hills of snow scooped off the streets in Boston or some other significantly snow-bound city and ship it out here? We'd be helping them out by getting rid of it.
Btw - THIS kind of pipeline I wouldn't object to. If there's a rupture - it'd be water that spills. Wonder if something like this could be built from the East Coast to the West Coast? Heck, I've heard many a lament from the colder climes regarding how they wish somebody could come in and take all this snow off their hands. This Angelena would LOVE to oblige!!!!
Hmmm... couldn't we put together some lollapalooza (or, ending in L.A., maybe LALApalooza? - SoCApalooza? And also NorCApalooza?) of a job project, nationwide? I bet we could hire a lot of people who need jobs, especially because it'd have to go through some areas that are depressed. Something pretty much STRAIGHT ACROSS THE COUNTRY. Not any of this gerrymandering-type stuff, with the pipeline going directly east to west, give or take a few mountains and-or swamps and private property and such. So you angle it a little here and there. You get my drift. And you build a pipeline running North-to-South from New England to joining the main East-to-West one. Same thing maybe from the Pacific Northwest south to CA. Maybe something connecting upper Minnesota with the main East-to-West line in the middle of the country? We need the water, and we also need the major-league snow removal, which would have to be melted down into water to be filtered and pumped from the snow area to the dry area. And we can always use more jobs, particularly in some areas that I'm sure are depressed and the local communities could use a little "vitamin shot".
Just imagining. I don't know if this is even feasible. Merely an idea that just came to mind totally at random. But what the heck.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)BOSTON: Hello, California?
CALIFORNIA: Yeah.
BOSTON: It's flooding again up here.
CALIFORNIA: Halleluiah, we'll open the tap!
Total win/win, right?
calimary
(81,466 posts)Hell, ANY hour of the day or night. I'd come with empty buckets and big dry sponges on! And I still have the little hand pump I used to clean out our fish tank! I'd bring that too!
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)and have had my well pump die a few times, so I can relate.
A sense of desperation sets in, which is wholly different from the severe annoyance and frustration I was having early this morning!
Let's hope if we all focus real hard, California will get some much needed thirst-quenching.
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it is 83 degrees here in sonora ca, our rainy season was last november . the weather forecasters just tease us with chances of rain and then they dissappear off the 10 day forecast . on edit been doing raindance , however , central keeps ignoring me !! hiumbug
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)we are being teased with sunshine, but I'll believe it when I see it!
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)Water pouring in when it rains. But it's about 35' high and muddy all around it. It won't quit raining so I can get up there with a chainsaw, cut it off and fix the roof.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)I'm not climbing up on a ladder when it's raining, even if I don't have to go 35'!
It's still raining outside. I have decided it will rain forever, and I am using autocad to design an ark.