Over 6 inches of rain predicted!

Pipersville_Carol

17 years ago

Yippee, the next week will be really rainy in my area, according to the forecasters. We really need it.

I'll be out in the rain, weeding like a madwoman.

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naturenut_pa
17 years ago
Oh, no...I'll believe it when I see it. My ponds need it soooo bad. I won't even mind having to engage in a "search and rescue" for the goldfish if the rain comes too fast.

I'm still surprised we didn't get much rain last night. I even did a rain dance. Well, not a real rain dance. A couple of yellow jackets came after me while mowing the lawn. But it looked like a rain dance...
melissas
17 years ago
Okay...it is the second day of the predicted "rainy week" and I still haven't seen much moisture. I hope I get some soon. There's lots of thunder and lightening, and I'm sure all the towns around me are getting drenched, but as for me and my garden, well.......
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Carol, During the Red River flooding of 2007, parts of our Mesonet station were disabled for days and days. I think the issue lasted until the worst of the flooding subsided. At some point they went back and manually corrected what records they could, but much data for the Burneyville station for that month is incomplete and considered somewhat unreliable. It drove me nuts. I had to rely only on my own observations! LOL I need a rain gauge that measures 10 or 12" of rain. I don't need it often (hee hee) but once every 2 or 3 years we get 25-35% of our annual rainfall in one day. When that happens, depending on how fast the rain is falling, I have to put on my muck boots, grab an umbrella and run outside and empty the rain gauge when it gets close to the 6" mark so it won't overflow and give an incorrect measurement. In April 2006, we had 9.25" in one day and most of that fell in about 4 hours. I went out and emptied out the gauge when it hit 5", and then I went out and emptied it out again when it hit 4". Shortly after that, the rain pretty much stopped. This year, the 12.4" fell over a longer period of time--maybe 8 hours or so--and I dumped the rain gauge 2 or 3 times so it wouldn't overflow. Based on statistics, we shouldn't have a massive rainfall for another 2 or 3 years, but sometimes statistics lie. "Christmas Day maybe?" LOL LOL LOL Here is what I am thinking. I am about to catch up and I will have one of those days really, really soon. I have two large bowls of tomatoes on my counter to process, so I think I'll roast them and a few other veggies at the same time and maybe make roasted tomato-garlic soup. That takes care of them. Then, I'll pick tiny tomatoes this evening (too hot already this a.m.) and dehydrate them. Then, I shouldn't have to process tomatoes again for 2 to 4 days, although I pick daily. I'll pick okra at the same time I pick little tomatoes, add it to what I picked yesterday, and blanch and freeze that. That's another veggie I shouldn't have to harvest again until tomorrow evening then, and I usually wait until I have two days' worth before I blanch/freeze. I also should have enough purple hull pinkeyes tonight to either cook a batch or freeze one, and then I should be able to skip picking for a day or two because they are slowing down. So, if I can get black-eyed pes, okra and tomatoes all done today/this evening, I shouldn't have to process them again for about three days. LOL It isn't much, but it is the best I can do. That only leaves hot peppers and sweet peppers. OK, so I have a lot of sweet peppers coloring up and I can pick them and freeze them for future use any time. I might do that tomorrow. If I do, it will take me just a couple of hours to pick 'em, wash 'em, slice 'em or chop 'em and get them into the freezer. That, then would leave only hot peppers. I've done a very heavy picking of hot peppers at least every other week since mid-July. At the present time, it has been about 10 days since I did a heavy picking, although I run out to the garden and pick as needed for cooking or canning recipes. So, I might be able to go 5-7 days before I pick hots again since rainfall is low and growth is relatively slow. So, where this is leading to is here: if I pick and process okra, peas and tomatoes tonight (Thurs.) and sweet peppers on Friday, and postpone hots until Mon. or Tues., then I should have Saturday off! Well, I'll have to pick okra, but I can stick it in the fridge and blanch/freeze it on Sunday. So, you see, I might get a day off. Unfortunately, Saturday is our best chance of rain here (about a 70% chance of rain and they are saying it may be heavy) so it probably would be a good day to be inside canning. It is hard to make the 'day off' fall where you want it to fall. I might do all I can on Saturday if it is raining, and try to make Sunday the day off because I love to cook a big family lunch and spend the afternoon watching NFL football. We still need and want rain here, and I think that by the end of the weekend, maybe I'll be able to say we finally got some. And, all my food processing predictions assume the plants will ripen produce as I expect it to. Every now and then, you walk out in to the garden and discover that blackeyed peas are suddenly purple earlier than expected, or the okra grew especially fast overnight or whatever. At this point, I'm just grateful the fall beans, corn, cukes and peas aren't producing finished products yet. As long as I keep up with the still-producing summer plants, I will be putting up a little food regularly, but not huge amounts on any given day. I will have a big green bean and big corn day or two in October if all goes well. I really think the heavy food processing load is lessening though. I'm still doing frequent batches, but smaller ones. When the fall broccoli is ready, that will be a big day or two, but that's some time off. Dawn
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jenny_in_se_pa
17 years ago
Not just you melissas! It rained some last night and this morning, but not the 4" - 6" or even 10" that one the weather services claimed would come (not that I would want flooding). I wouldn't even hazard that it was an inch. I'm sitting here looking at the sun right now, which is kicking the temperature up with all this humidity - even with the overcast skies today. I think they should take a clue about how consistent the weather pattern has been around here since winter this year - with "dry slots" almost always forming smack in the middle of the rain shield. The models seem to never get this scenario right.
mwoods
17 years ago
Well here in Bucks county things are getting pretty messy. I had to wear boots to get to the back of our property and was almost up to my ankles in water. If this keeps up,I fear for those living on the Delaware. Can't imagine getting flooded two years in a row.
jenny_in_se_pa
17 years ago
This whole thing has been odd. There has still been a relative "dry slot" within the rain band and last evening, one solid side of the band pummeled Chesco & parts of Delco (sending the creeks to flood stage) with another side of the band going across Bucks and later into the Jersey counties, including down to Cape May county. Where I am (NW Philly), we had a couple bouts of 10 minute moderately heavy rain and then it lightened considerably and pretty much stopped, with on and off light rain through to this morning. The airport here only reported about 1/4" for yesterday.

Looks like a heavier mass of rain is slowly moving up from the SW though so we'll see.
melissas
17 years ago
Yahoo! I have finally been the recipient of some of the rain!! Last night we got about 1 1/2", and a nice on and off gentle rain today. I am so happy--but here come the weeds (not that I'm complaining)!
nick_17815_pa
17 years ago
Didn't get any rain last night, but the night prior I got at least 2" maybe 3" plus. Started raining sometime this morning while I was at church and it hasn't stopped since. I just checked on my lil' tub pond. Had to take more water out of it, so it doesn't overflow and give my fish a way out. Soon we'll be complaining about the lack of sun....
naturenut_pa
17 years ago
Here in Upper Bucks....PFFFFFTTTT!
NOTHING
A half inch on friday night. Big deal.
On Saturday, driving thru Hunterdon County on my way to the big W, I drove thru lots of rain. Today, driving to Flemington and then to Nazareth, I drove thru rain again almost the whole way. And back home? A drizzle that measured .04 on the rain gauge. Yes, that was today's total.
Arrrghhh...this is so frustrating ;-(
chescobob
17 years ago
I don't know how much rain we received but it poured all last night. That had to be several inches. We received a good deal the last 2 days too.
Pipersville_Carol
Original Author
17 years ago
In Pipersville the Saturday rain total was about two inches. It did seem to be VERY localized... we had pouring rain in the morning, but when I spoke to my hay dealer around 11 a.m., he said he hadn't gotten any rain even though he's only five miles west of me.

Sunday was disappointing, only about a inch of rain. But it's pouring again today.

I put all of my houseplants outside this morning. They'll love getting a nice rain bath.
chescobob
17 years ago
According to the map displayed by the NBC affiliate in Phila., we had 6 inches of rain so far in SW Chester County with much more coming.
Pipersville_Carol
Original Author
17 years ago
Lordy, enough already! I just read about possible flooding in Philadelphia tomorrow. It'll be heartbreaking if New Hope and Lambertville get flooded again. Those people have already suffered two years of back-to-back destruction. Ouch.
geoforce
17 years ago
Well... We got 2.6" more here at the PA-DEL-MA corner over the night. This bringe us to a bit over 8" since Friday night. Had to take a detour to work this morning, as the Red Clay was over the road in Yorklyn, DE, but the White Clay near my home had already receeded, and the Brandywine was still fine at Thompson's Bridge. Still, that is a bit much and there is a lot more coming if the predictions are right.

George
naturenut_pa
17 years ago
River road along the Delaware (Route 32) is already feeling the effects. With an SUV, the water comes up to the bottom of the doors. I suspect that the road will be closed by mid-day (if not closed by now already).

Our total rainfall for the past few days isn't even that bad. 2.5" last night, but the total is still under 5 inches. I probably should have gone on a "search and rescue" for the goldfish this morning, since I'm sure the pond overflowed.
stimpy926
17 years ago
Hi folks, since Friday... I have emptied my rain gauge twice, and as of this morning, a total of 9.25 inches in my yard!
Pipersville_Carol
Original Author
17 years ago
Naturenut, I'd heard that River Road was bad in Uhlerstown at 7 am this morning, and it's probably gotten much worse by now. My mother is being evacuated right now, in Ewing NJ. Luckily my brother is there to help (although he sounded pretty panicked on the phone).

I was up at 4:41 am this morning clearing ditches around the garage and barn, and couldn't believe how hard the rain was coming down. I was still outside when the storm "broke" and the weather started to improve, and it was an amazingly distinct moment. Suddenly the rain lessened, the pre-dawn sky brightened, and a bird started singing. It seemed to happen in about 10 seconds.
naturenut_pa
17 years ago
Yikes! Carol, I hope that the evacuation turns out to be a precaution only, and everything turns out okay with your mother.
As of tonight, River Road is closed from 611 all the way down to Solebury. I'm sure that by morning, it will be closed all the way down to Trenton.
I had no idea that the rain was so bad last night...not until I did some weeding tonight and I saw the telltale signs of dirt splashed onto the siding from the gutters overflowing.
jenny_in_se_pa
17 years ago
Apparently much of the flooding over here in Philly is coming from all the water pouring downstream to the river outlets here and not so much from rain here. I can imagine what it would have been like if the city had as much rain as the other areas on top of receiving the overflow water from upstream!
sarahbn
17 years ago
Jenny did you get that rain cell over you last night? It woke me up I've been up since 3:45 am this morning. Sarah
jenny_in_se_pa
17 years ago
Sarah - yep! That woke me up. Alot of lightning. And last night, I actually recorded some of the lightning storm on my digital camera around 10:30pm!

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