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OK ,We're Building An Ark...

15 years ago

Whos getting on??Geeze we're getting like 3 storms a day,Thunder,Lightening ,heavy downpours ,floods every other day now.

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cynic
15 years ago
Kind of unfair isn't it? LOL The places suffering from droughts and wildfires could sure use some of that and I'm sure you wouldn't object to a little dry weather!

Feel free to post pictures of your ark! Have you named it yet? I'd suggest Hope. Then you could have a webcam of the progress. ;)
Georgysmom
15 years ago
I like a little rain now and then, but after a while it gets depressing. We've had our fair share, too.
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Riley is also a cutie. :) Vinny is allowed on the sofa and other furniture also - he only hangs out on the floor by the kitchen, and he has a squishy mat there to lie on. But he gets a little anxious sometimes so I figure having a few places where he can go and be with us but not on top of people is good, plus he seems to like the coziness of a chair sometimes. (He also has a crate in the living room that he does enjoy, but he can't see the TV from there. Or into the dining room and kitchen, or out the windows. So at the end of the school day, a chair from which he could watch the kids go by would be much preferable.) (He adores children. I think he wants his own human infant, but I refuse to get him one of them. :D He will have to settle for the 12 year old.) The crate is a whole different problem, since most places don't seem to want to make more attractive crates in larger sizes. We'll probably see if we can get someone local to build us something - crate on the bottom and hutch with shelves on top or something along those lines. Or we might build the crate into the coat closet and just have closet above for shorter coats and jackets. (We have another space that is a little further from the door that could be used as a secondary closet for longer stuff. We're thinking to make that closet kind of a mudroom type finish anyway - more water and mud resistant - so if stuff comes in wet or boots are muddy they can be set there to dry.)
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User
15 years ago
I love rain but even I could do with a sunny cool day. Yesterday after almost 2 inches , the sun was shining so the dogs and I did our three mile walk. Half way there, it drizzled and then let loose in a deluge which soaked us all to the skin. I have NEVER in my life been in a rain like that. Crossing a street soaked my feet past my ankles..like a river. The humidity is beyond belief for two weeks now. Everything is damp and smells like a locker room. To think I prayed for rain in July. ..Just ones of these storms would have done so much good. The wettest month in history, the wettest Sept in history and the wettest year and we have three months to go. No decent hair days for me.
joyfulguy
15 years ago
We've had a fairly rainy summer.

I've had a dehumidifier working sometimes in the basement, and there were not many nights when I turned on the furnace fan to move cooler basement air up through the house.

I found a small dehumidifier a while ago, and when I brought it home found that the fan works ... but not the part that sucks the moisture out of the air ... which is likely the main reason that it was sitting there on the curb.

Anyway ... the other day when I went into my closet, on the shady corner of the house, I found that some of my clothes had molded.

Drat!

ole joyful

P.S. I commisserate with the lady who, while tryingto walk on water, with her dogs, was found to be walking through water up to her ankles ... and, through the heaviest downpour in memory, they were all soaked to the skin. I assume that, since it would only have to permeate fur on the dogs, that they would have been soaked to the skin first.

I haven't been all wet, very often, myself, through the summer ... and none of your sharp comments on that, please. The garden's fairly close to a shed, the barn or the house.

o j
rosemaryt
15 years ago
We're also getting a LOT of rain. It's rained for most of 10 days now, and the ground is saturated.

Sun came out today, but we've got more clouds on the horizon.

We're hoping for a sunny today because our house warming party is SATURDAY!!! :)
cynic
15 years ago
Uh.... OK OJ, you must know the question is coming... was it your underwear that molded???? ;)
lynn_d
15 years ago
I will come with ya, Bulldinkie! We're getting it here in Johnstown too, what a mess! And with Nita coming to visit just in time for the 40 degree weather!
OklaMoni
15 years ago
And our lake beds are dry and cracked.....

Yep, not fair!!!!
roco0101
15 years ago
I have some "free to a good home" Goldfish (15yo) if you need the Ark couple or just some sushi.

Crap, just realized, in an Ark flood, fish won't be a big seller.
kathy_
15 years ago
I heard on tv this morning that this month we (I don't live but 20 miles away Bulldinkie) have had 21 days with some rain.
Might be 22 with the sky looking cloudy now.
It's getting old....
User
15 years ago
Since the humidity is gone now and it's cool(thank God) I thought it would clear up. No... tomorrow we'll have rain and very cool temps. I like the temps, not more rain.
bulldinkie
Original Author
15 years ago
come on cynic this is uncalled for,life is way tooo short for this..
They said we were just a hair short of the record 18.55" this month.Thats alot of rain.
rocco where are you located?
dex215
15 years ago
Where are you all located? I 'm up here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and we haven't had more than an inch here all summer.
bulldinkie
Original Author
15 years ago
Im near Gettysburg pa

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