Oh, joy...another downpour. It has rained -every day this month- except 3.

[karlrschneider]

It was dry the 6th, 7th and 14th. Well not exactly dry, it just didn't rain.
Gurgle.

[uppityperson]

1. helps prevent forest fires.

[Warpy]

13. Not here in the high desert

where it promotes the growth of underbrush which then dries out and catches fire.

Rainfall does help put them out when they do start, though, as long as the lightning isn't what gets them going. Rain at least gets the fire out of the crowns and back into the brush.

[Change has come]

39. . . .

:thumbsup:

[Cetacea]

48. Encourages mosquitos. Rain should be pastuerized!

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[Raven]

2. I wish I could send you some sun!

We've had a lot of it up here. :-)

[William769]

3. They keep calling for rain here in North Fort Myers, FL. everyday.

But we never seem to get it, and it's hurricane season! Have 3 forest fires within 5 miles of my house. :-(

[karlrschneider]

15. I know, my partner's mom lives there. I'd love to trade with anybody who needs some!

It's crazy...

[devilgrrl]

4. Send some of that rain to California - we can use it.

:-(

[Rosemary2205]

5. You damn rain hogs!

You could at least save some for us Georgia folks you big bunch of HOGS. We are DESPERATE!

((hope you or your stuff don't get drownded)) :hug:

[guitar man]

6. hey, at least you got a break

OKC is on its 16th straight day of rain, an all-time record :(

[madokie]

10. I heard that on the news this morning

[guitar man]

16. yeah, it's been pretty bad

both here and tulsa both, I can't get anything done at either place because it just won't stop raining :(

[liberal N proud]

7. Sounds like a typical summer here in Cleveland

But this year we have the August dry in June.

But I am sure that Global Warming can not be blamed... RIIIIIiiggghht

[blonndee]

8. Yup, here in central OK it's beyond soggy.

My poor rosebush is sick with black spot from too much moisture and my yard is a jungle. I always used to love the rain but I haven't seen the sun in at least two weeks, and I think longer. It's getting depressing. But I'm moving this weekend to sunny New Mexico! I know I'll miss how green it is here, though, and the neat animals like cardinals and fireflies that I never saw before I moved to OK.

[karlrschneider]

18. I lived in NM when I was a kid, I remember a huge tornado that barely missed us.

Just what you wanted to hear, eh?
;-)

[blonndee]

32. Ha! It's funny, part of the reason I'm moving is to get AWAY from the tornadoes.

But I'm a NM native, and although there were a few tornado watches while I was growing up, I've never seen one and never had to dive for cover until I moved here.

You must have lived in eastern NM, right? That's where I grew up.

[karlrschneider]

40. Yes, Roswell. This was in 1950. I still have the movies my dad took of it.

;-)

[blonndee]

41. Cool! I'm from Clovis and have driven through Roswell more times than

I can count. That is one LONG highway, LOL.

Too bad he didn't take any movies of you-know-what!

:)

[karlrschneider]

49. This is true, I swear it: My brother was born there in 1948. He doesn't look like

anyone in our family and he's a very strange dude. I mean I love him and all but he's kinda ...uh, other-worldly in some ways. :D

(It's okay, he knows it's true and hilarious too) ;-)

[SoonerPride]

9. Global wettening

It has rained a ton here in Oklahoma as well. We're growing webbed feet.

[Nicole]

43. He is talking about Oklahoma.

:hi:

[Raine]

11. CA needs that rain

I wish we had it here.

[SharonAnn]

12. Here in East Tennesee it's the driest year for 118 years. We need rain!

Corn in fields is barely knee high and should be "as high as an elephant's eye".

Cattle are being sold off, despite low prices, because there's no pasturage and no hay to feed them.

[canetoad]

14. Lucky bastard!

Heard on weather report (oz)last week; '....and the GOOD news is fortunately every day from Tuesday to Saturday will be cold and wet.'

[madokie]

17. don't you just love not having to water the garden??? :-0

just kidding but I haven't had to yet this year. I'm just glad the rain is mostly south of us and not in kansas or we would be in a world of hurt right now cause with our rains the lakes are full and if we had a bunch coming down from up north it would be much worser

[karlrschneider]

21. Water it? Hell, I can barely get TO it!

:D

It's a good thing we have a brush hog, we're gonna need it when -or if- it ever dries out!
:silly:

[madokie]

24. I know,

I was just being silly. I was able to mow tuesday morning while the grass was still damp although I don't like to but it looked like we were in for a real wet week plus we just bought a new zero turn mower and I was anxious to give it another spin, er mow ;-)

[karlrschneider]

28. Oh sure I know, I was being silly too. We mow about an acre of the 4 we have

and have plenty of equipment so it's no big deal really...if it dries out enough to keep from making big ruts. :D

[XOKCowboy]

45. LOL My brother just bought a 50" John Deere....

riding mower. It's killing him not to be out in it! Just too wet. If it ever dries up it'll look like a golf course up there! :)

[skip fox]

19. Lafayette, South Louisiana. Here we've been getting a couple downpours per DAY.

There was one day last week where we had had 5 before I left town at 5 p.m.

[karlrschneider]

23. Yeah but you cajuns expect it! :-)

Lafayette is one of my favorite towns, we have some good friends there. :D
edit: Is Hebert's seafood market still in business? It's been a couple years since we got down that way, we used to often and always went there to stock up on crawfish, gator tail, all that good stuff. :-) I don't know the address but I know how to find it...out near the football field...

[maxsolomon]

20. what do you expect? ITS JUNE IN SEATTLE!

you're not in seattle? never mind...

[cloudbase]

22. Plenty of rain in Houston, mostly scattered,

but nowhere near what some of the folks north and west of here are getting. It definitely cuts down on the saddle time on the Guzzi.

[LiberalEsto]

25. Send us some!

My rain barrel's dry here in Maryland

[Bake]

26. Send some to central Mississippi!

We're about 15 inches below what we should have gotten year to date. I'm going home to mow the dust in my back yard ...

Bake

[Squigglenob]

27. Hell has begun in dry Colorado, near triple digits. And the hottest days are yet ahead (n/t)

[karlrschneider]

29. Normally it would be dry and around 100F here too but not this year.

:eyes:
Welcome to DU! :toast:

[blondie58]

46. welcome to DU, Squigglenob!

from another scorched Coloradoan!

[rainbow4321]

30. Huge trees in OK are tipping over in some neighborhoods

According to relatives I have in OK..the ground is so saturated from all the rain that the ground around the trees isn't holding the tree roots down anymore...up come the roots, over go the trees.

[Horse with no Name]

35. How are you all faring rainbow?

I worry about w8lftinglady-she is in Ellis County and it looks like they are getting pounded today.:(

[rainbow4321]

53. Our part of Collin County has been spared

Just the street-turns-to-a-creek-during-the-torrential-downpour kind of stuff..each time that happens it pisses me off that Plano, probably the richest city in Texas, has the crappiest street drainage system known to mankind. Car bumper level water is bad enough but when you get people still whizzing down the street it feels like you're sitting in one of those drive thru car washes and can't see out your windshield--but you realize that you are **driving** and NEED to see!
Fortunately our house isn't near any creeks or lakes in Collin County.

You guys doing OK? Hope w8lftinglady is alright!

[Missy M]

31. I wish some would come to Western New York.....

We have had very little rain. The ground is so dry it's filled with big cracks. It has also been very hot this June. My water bill is going to be outrageous from watering the flowers and vegetable garden.

[Habibi]

34. Hey, Buffalo gal!

Rottenchester here. Yes, we need more rain! The bindweed has taken over and will not be defeated.

:hi:

[Missy M]

52. Hi Rochester.......

just saw your post this morning. My lawn (both the grass and weeds) is a lost cause, just pure straw. The sun is out this morning and I'm sure we will have no rain today. What a tragedy with the 5 girls being killed in the car accident. It is heartbreaking.

[Horse with no Name]

33. I feel your pain Karl

My backyard is up to my butt and it is too wet to mow.
We have rain forecast here everyday for the next 7 days.:(

[lonestarnot]

36. So does she. Heh!

On second thought maybe she doesn't. Heh

[mnhtnbb]

37. Send some our way! We've had thunder, wind, t-storms all around us,

but no rain in Chapel Hill, NC for too long.

We're going to have to start watering the yard.

[Horse with no Name]

38. We've had so much rain my yard is MOLDING

And I am not kidding.
It has rained almost every day forever (Northeast Texas).
We haven't got the brunt, but we have certainly got the tail end.

[XOKCowboy]

42. I was down there for Father's Day..

Got family in Skiatook. It was the first time I'd ever heard ranchers there wish the rain would stop and the sun would come out! Rained every day I was there and had for the last month. Very weird for OK.

[dave29]

44. Globe trying desperately to cool itself off.

It's hot here on Mother Earth

[Nicole]

47. I've got a pond forming in my back yard.

I'm sick of the rain but loving the break from the heat. I don't remember a year where I had the AC off & the windows open in June.

[NaturalHigh]

50. On the plus side, Karl...

it's been great for my tomatoes. The yard and the hay fields suck, though.

[karlrschneider]

51. I hear that. I planted 9 tomato plants and there must be 800 tomatos on the vines.

I guess I'll be making ketchup (catsup?) in a few weeks. :D