BS: It's Raining!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 12:25 PM

Speaking of dogs:

My old hound dog lies there sleeping.
He don't know I'm gonna leave
Else he'd wake up there by the fireplace
And he'd sit there and howl and grieve
But my huntin' days are over, I ain't gonna hunt that coon no more
Gabriel something, something, something...
When the wind blew down the door.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Janie
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 12:05 PM

...Gabriel done brought in my chariot
When the wind blew down the door.

Ain't gonna need this house....

Tarheel, I live one of those old mill houses with a tin roof. When it ain't leakin, its grand!

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 11:53 AM

"Ain't a gonna live in this house no longer
Ain't a gonna live in this house no more.
Ain't got time to fix the windows
Ain't got time to fix the door
Ain't got time to oil the hinges
Or to mend the windowpanes
Ain't gonna live in this house no longer
She's a gettin' ready to meet the saints.
Ready to meet the saints."

It has rained for days and the cats have cabin fever. Feat or famine this year.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: tarheel
Date: 10 Oct 05 - 11:41 AM

Janie...as a kid growing up in North Carolina,some of my fondest memories were of listening to the rain at night beat down on the Tin roofs of our mill home...(my dad worked for the local cotton mill at the time)
there was nothing else like it...it was like listening to music or my mom singing a song to us before bedtime...
sometimes the thuderstorms were not as much of a treat to listen to,but when those all night steady rains or showers came through,life was great then! sure miss the sound that put me to sleep like a melody!
tar...(winston-salem,n.c..)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Janie
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 12:50 PM

Ebbie--reminds me of the song "This Ol' House."
Do you know it?

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Hrothgar
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 05:27 AM

Already had the first bushfire of the summer here - and it's not summer. It might be lucky that we have had a drought, because it has reduced the amount of fuel available.

Idyllic bushland setting = fire trap!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 02:06 AM

It's been wet today here in southeastern Alaska and the wind is calm. An audio warning just broke in on the television informing us that we are to expect widespread high winds accompanied with heavy rains tonight. What's up with that?

In 1964 I think it was, hurricane-like winds came up the Oregon coast from California off the Pacific ocean. Roofs came off, chimneys fell, great swaths of forest were blown down- looking like feather fans - some people had no electricity for several weeks.

I happened to be at my brother's house that day, in a narrow ravine. My brother had a hen nesting under an upsside down barrel on the slope past the house. The wind blew the barrel down the hill, under a single strand electric fence, and then it turned around and 'barreled' up the hill again.

So. I like wind. And I like it when this hundred year old house shudders with each blast. But I've gotten a bit leery of the really heavy stuff. Especially after Katrina.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: GUEST,Cluin
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 12:36 AM

A heavy frost killed all my potted and garden plants last night.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: JennyO
Date: 09 Oct 05 - 12:31 AM

Our little bit of rain has stopped and we have the ☼, but with it some nasty bitey winds. Actually we need a lot more of the wet stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 09:49 PM

it rained...then it RAINED! ..then it rained some more....right now it is drizzling. I got water overflowing the window wells and making a small puddle in my basement workshop for the first time in sevaral years. I'm sure the petunias¹ are happy...me, I'm soggy!...(and my Sunday newspaper was wet!)
I'm ready for some ☼





¹generic term for any small flower

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: ranger1
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 09:19 PM

Started pouring here in Maine last night and hasn't let up yet. It has been such a lovely complement to spending the last week in the fog. The forecast this morning was for 3"-5", by noon it had switched to 4-6. I'm curious to see what the news at 11PM has to say. Flood watch in effect for SW Maine, but I don't think too much will come of that. I think it is safe to say that my last day of rangering for the year was a spectacular wash-out.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 09:07 PM

Beecham's Powders are a patent medicine mostly comprising a powdered soluble analgesic, probably aspirin. Soluble pain relief. Used to palliate the symptoms of the common cold.

Do people not think that these weather oddities might be symptomatic of global warming?

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: number 6
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 08:57 PM

gnu ... I know some of my friends down here that certainly going to have flooding basement problems .... 10:00 p.m. and it's still pissing like crazy.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Susan A-R
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 08:55 PM

Raining here in north central Vermont and has been pretty steadily and heavily since yesterday, and it's finally cooled off too. It's been a lovely evening to curl up and learn a few fiddle tunes with a cup of tea. Occasional trotting down to the laundry room in the basement show a fair stream of water coming through, but so far it's keeping on going out the drain at the other end. Nice for sleeping.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: gnu
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 07:37 PM

sIx.... I spent half the day with my trash pumps helping relatives keep the flooding basement waters from getting to the furnaces. Furnaces! Damn cold too!!!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Janie
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 07:29 PM

I worked out in my garden this afternoon--it had been awhile. Most of my flower beds are raised, and have a sandy loam soil that I hauled in a P/U truck load at a time. Even with the nice rain, the beds are not real wet. Just damp down to about 4 inches. Those beds that are a clay loam aren't much wetter.

    Not wishing for flooding for anyone else, but I sure hope we get some more of that stuff coming down here in North Carolina.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: number 6
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 03:39 PM

Hey gnu ..... pissing like crazy down here today ... how's it up there?
Wanted to do some garden cleanup ... guess that will have to wait.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: gnu
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 03:33 PM

Me and my big mouth... it started raining not long after I posted last night. Three to four inches so far and a couple more to come. And the temp has dropped to 9C.

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 01:07 PM

A neighbor just told me that the sign at city hall (in Edgecliff, not Fort Worth) says no outside watering is allowed at all. Good thing we have rain due this week.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 11:39 AM

Watchin' the rain out our computer room window here in MD. I can hear the sighs of relief from our oft-neglected garden below. The rain has also washed out a medieval fair we were supposed to dance and play at today. This is actually a good thing, as I have plenty of stuff that needs to get done but hasn't since I've been working major OT lately.

-- Gary

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 09:28 AM

Same here. Okay, the dogs aren't going "Ahhhh," they're saying "let us in the house!" but everything else is saying "Ahhhh!"

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Janie
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 09:14 AM

Still raining---soft, gentle, soaking. I can almost hear the earth go "Ahhhhh."

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: jimmyt
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 11:15 PM

Been raining in north Georgia for 2 days and we really need it. Stopped a while ago and it is cool and crisp outdoors wit ha gentle northern wind blowing ! Great Fall is finally arriving

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: gnu
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 06:21 PM

sIx... raining for two days? Gee, it only rained here through the night... 26C and sunny here today... just a spit up the road. But, I see we are forecast to get about two inches of rain tomorrow... which is good... hunting season is upon us and rain keeps the wimps out of the woods... go Bambi!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 04:21 PM

And wet creosote bush!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: artbrooks
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 02:44 PM

Not raining today, but it has 3 of the last 4 days. Our drought is still with us, and you can easly walk across the Rio Grande, but every little bit helps. One of the very pleasant scents here is that of wet sage!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: *Laura*
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 01:53 PM

Yeh it's usually a pretty safe bet that it'll be raining here at any given time!!
(UK)

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 01:25 PM

or whiskey

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: open mike
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 01:15 PM

what's Beechams ?
sounds like chewing gum?

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 12:13 PM

"Tropical storm Tammy" (now 'depression') is our current Nemesis hit the Carolinas and moved inland.

(we got plenty of chicken for soup and other things....gonna be a chicken & rice stir-fry tonight)

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Grab
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 11:54 AM

Try dancing in the rain over in the UK, you'd better lay in stocks of Beechams and tissues first. Warm it is not!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 11:50 AM

When it rains it pours, eh?

Is this slopover from the latest hurricane moving up the eastern seaboard?

Sounds like you could use a hot bowl of the turkey stew/pot pie I made last night. It was a double shot--I used a batch of chicken stock in it along with the turkey drippings generated from roasting turkey thighs. Made a pot of veggies with the stock and the meat, thickened it, and served with pie crust cut out in cookie cutter shapes (by the kids).

I love it at the end of summer when the weather finally shifts cool so I can cook again!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 11:39 AM

we are expecting way too much rain in the Wash DC area, after 2 months of almost none. It started several hours ago, gently, but is beginning to rattle harder...


"...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...

THE FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR

* THE EASTERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA...MUCH OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA...AND PORTIONS OF MARYLAND WEST OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY.

* FROM THIS MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON

* A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE MID ATLANTIC LATER TODAY. AT THE SAME TIME...TROPICAL MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION TAMMY WILL BE ABSORBED INTO THE ADVANCING FRONT. WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY. RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO OVERSPREAD THE REGION THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON. THE RAIN MAY BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT. THE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH LATE ON SATURDAY.

* TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN THE FLOOD WATCH AREA THROUGH LATE SATURDAY WILL BE BETWEEN 3 TO 6 INCHES...WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS OF UP TO 8 INCHES POSSIBLE. THE HIGHEST RAINFALL TOTALS ARE EXPECTED TO BE ALONG AND WEST OF THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS.

* THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS"

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 11:32 AM

I'm sure it isn't the same storm, but we finally have rain here in Fort Worth, Texas, this morning after over two months of dry weather. We had one tiny little squall pass over us a couple of weeks ago, barely enough to count as "wet" let alone rain. I woke to a gentle rain this morning and about a half inch standing in the dog dish out on the porch (and both dogs snuggly ensconced in one of the dog houses).

It also finally feels like autumn this week. We've had very hot temperatures all through September and into October.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: number 6
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 11:07 AM

Rainin' here in Saint John ... has been for the last 2 days ... don't mind so much as we have had an absolutely splendid August and September.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: GUEST,freda, via the back door
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 11:03 AM

re the crones, this is secret women's business, however, since you asked, Jane..
it was, is and will be great!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: JennyO
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 10:59 AM

I love the smell of rain too! This should be just enough rain to knock a lot of the dust out of the air and give us a fresh sparkling morning tomorrow.

Coincidentally, it's getting on for 1am here now. The 'cat is slowing down - must be time for bed (if I can just get this post to take).

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 10:48 AM

It's raining in North Central Pennsylvania too!!!! Parts of the county are under flash flood warnings, but not here...not so far...just some very much needed rain!!!!   :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Janie
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 10:39 AM

Thread creep--how was the cronehood celebration?

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Janie
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 10:37 AM

Know what you mean, Jenny. This will not be a drought buster either, but the plants relish it anyway. Don't you just feel something ease inside you, listening to the rain after a long, long dry spell?

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: freda underhill
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 10:36 AM

glad to hear it, eric!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: freda underhill
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 10:34 AM

it was bakingly hot last weekend!

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Janie
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 10:34 AM

And Eric--where be here? And do you wish it to rain or are you glad it finally is not?

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: JennyO
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 10:33 AM

Hi Janie. I'm in Sydney too. It's a nice gentle rain here, similar to yours, and yes, we have had a drought going on here for quite some time. This won't break it, but it's nice. My garden will be happy anyway.

Tomorrow sounds like it is going to be completely different - hot, windy and high fire danger. It's not summer yet, but there always seem to be a few days of "indian summer" weather in October giving us a preview of things to come.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 10:30 AM

It's not raining here.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: Janie
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 10:25 AM

Southeast USA (North Carolina). Has it been dry there?

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: It's Raining!
From: freda underhill
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 10:08 AM

it's raining here, too, Janie - where are you?

freda (in sydney)

Subject: BS: It's Raining!
From: Janie
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 09:28 AM

A nice slow soaking rain--it is supposed to continue through tonight. Last night I sat on the front porch until almost 1:00 am just listening to it and watching the tall perennial sunflowers dance in the breezes. (They are one of the few plants in my garden that have done ok in the drought.) Gotta confess I did a little dancing in the rain myself!

Janie