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Post by themotherhen on Jun 21, 2015 5:47:46 GMT
Here in Ohio, we had 4" of rain in 4 days by Friday night, before Tropical Storm Bill rolled into town. Well today, my mom and I headed south to visit my Grandma. She lives close to the Ohio River. On the way, we drove through torrential downpours, the rain was so loud and heavy. We couldn't see the road. Luckily we made it through, only to drive through water in the streets in Pomeroy and Rutland. The Ohio River was really high too. I am so thankful that we were able to make it there and back safely. It was a little iffy a few times.
My garden is so happy! Luckily no flooding, and everything is so huge! My zucchini is up to my hips :-) and the corn is chest high now. I wish I had about 10 rain barrels! I could fill them.
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Post by solargeek on Jun 22, 2015 15:33:41 GMT
I totally sympathize. I am always happy for rain (saves me 1.5 hours of watering!)
But we are having BIG time scary weather here now, with bow echo winds (40-70 mph) and severe crashing storms. Really glad we have an ICF (insulated CONCRETE form) home. Still scary
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Post by chickenista on Jun 23, 2015 1:30:42 GMT
We have the opposite problem.
We haven't had rain in ages and ages.
It comes near us, but doesn't hit our yard.
We live in an isothermal pocket.
It's crappy.
We can watch the radar and the storms just squish around us.
We are around 100* and dry as a bone.
It burns my feet to stand on the grass barefoot.
The longest we have gone without a single drop of rain falling was 3 months and 3 days.
All of my trees were naked, the grass wasn't just dead, it was gone and I had deep cracks in the yard.
We are headed that way again.
Oh.. and we could see cars driving down the road that still had their wipers on.
I could smell the rain falling 200 yards away.
Le sigh.
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Post by themotherhen on Jun 23, 2015 1:37:45 GMT
I wish I could share some rain with you, chickenista! I really would if I could.
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Post by ketoriverfarm on Jun 23, 2015 3:33:14 GMT
I'm in the NE corner of Washington state. And we could use some rain. This weekend we will be in the 90's and then at least two days of 106. Way too hot for us. This is not good for our fire danger. May be a very long fire season.
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Post by mzgarden on Jun 23, 2015 10:45:25 GMT
Also in Ohio but somewhat less excited to get yet more rain. Have lost the corn garden to a combination of gallant soldier invading and sopping, sloppy wetness. Have some short season corn, but can't get on the ground to plant without sinking. Our other garden is a mix - somethings are doing very well, others are starting to lay down for being too wet. Never had this problem in these garden spaces before; will have to think about what to do this Fall to improve. It is good to know the barn and the house have nice, new metal roofs and the berries are exploding. Not all bad, but it is pretty wet this year.
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Post by susannah on Jun 26, 2015 1:34:25 GMT
It's been raining almost every day this month. But for the most part, just a little bit at a time. For all the rainy days, we'll probably end the month spot on normal for precipitation - if not a little bit low. If it were up to me, I'd like larger amounts of rain, but less frequently. Now, by larger amounts I do not meant the 4 inches we got in 3 hours last September...um, no. But a string of three or four days without rain would let me stain the deck - and maybe...MAYBE...dial back the mosquito population a bit.
We did get maybe a half an inch on Monday - but with it came insane winds. So strong that they took down a huge basswood tree in our yard. Which fortunately fell into the woods, not toward the road, driveway or power lines. Hmmm...maybe I'll stick with the little piddly amounts of rain - if larger amounts bring winds like that.
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Post by vickilynn on Jun 29, 2015 11:26:43 GMT
We are going to get a couple more inches of rain today and have a flood watch issued. The Maumee River is flooding at Waterville and Grand Rapids. The ground is so saturated; the rain has nowhere else to go. We are turning back into the Great Black Swamp. My garden was so beautiful, but all this rain is starting to rot some things. The wheat fields are being totally ruined.
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Post by themotherhen on Jun 29, 2015 19:06:04 GMT
More rain started during the night and has continued all day. I wanted to weed as they are taking over but it is pouring. Maybe tomorrow.....
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Post by countrymom22 on Jun 29, 2015 19:53:51 GMT
We have had less rain than many of you, but it has been enough to keep the garden happy without washing everything away, so I an thankful. We do have a healthy bug and weed population due to the rain though. If I can stay ahead of the weeds, we'll be OK. The entire family helped me catch up on weeding yesterday, but we forgot the old strawberry bed that is completely overgrown, so I think I'll work on that tonight and then cover it with black plastic to kill any other weed seeds. We won't be planting anything in that bed until nest spring when I may put raspberries in there.
We are expecting more rain tomorrow, but today I will enjoy this beautiful day and be thankful.
God Bless, Sue
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Post by ohiodreamer on Jun 29, 2015 22:10:11 GMT
My one friend has a son named Noah, she told him today that if this rain doesn't stop soon he "knows" what he has to do, lol. Yes, she was implying building an ark....
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Post by willowgirl on Jul 1, 2015 3:44:46 GMT
I can't remember when I last watered my container plants. Haven't needed to -- it's rained nearly every day for the last 3 weeks! Grrr.
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Post by susannah on Jul 1, 2015 13:37:39 GMT
My rain barrels are constantly overflowing. Most of the plants haven't needed much watering (except for some very full cherry tomato container ones). Everything else is more than taken care of by the rain (got another inch of it on Monday). But since the precipitation up here runs feast or famine, I figure there will come a time when all that stored water comes in handy.
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Post by countrymom22 on Jul 2, 2015 0:47:33 GMT
Rained here again last night but the heavy storms, wind and lightening went north of us. There's a chance of a pop up isolated storm tonight but then it looks like it should be dry through the weekend.
Hopefully that will be enough time for me to get caught up outside. Still more weeding to do and now that things are starting to come in in the garden, finding time to water these next few days might be tough. But I not complaining.
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Post by themotherhen on Jul 2, 2015 1:29:13 GMT
I won't complain about rain, ever. I have hauled water and hand watered too many times :-) I am thankful for the bounty of rain, I am just having trouble keeping ahead of the weeds! Oh well, it could be worse. It could always be worse.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2015 11:42:38 GMT
I'll complain about rain. We took a week off so we could get some critical jobs around here done, and it's raining now and predicted to rain for the next 10 days.
<sigh>
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Post by Wendy on Jul 2, 2015 18:31:29 GMT
I posted pics up in the families board. We had 2" today. Like Willow, it has rained almost everyday for the past 3 weeks!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2015 0:21:58 GMT
Praise God! We got some honest-to-goodness sunshine here today! We gardened and mowed, BUT we got a lot of rain overnight.
Hoping we can find some straw tomorrow, because pine shavings are NOT cutting it in the stalls.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 4:41:47 GMT
Please send some rain to WI. Parts of the state has had plenty but not in central WI. We were in IN two weeks ago and saw lots of fields under water and a few back roads closed due to washouts. Sad!
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Post by manygoatsnmore on Jul 4, 2015 13:14:37 GMT
I sure wish we could even out the rain so that you that have too much could dry out a little and those of us with too little could get a few good soaking rains. It's very hot and dry here, with no relief in sight, unless you count a few days in the high 80's instead of mid 90's and up.
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Post by susannah on Jul 4, 2015 13:37:23 GMT
Please send some rain to WI. Parts of the state has had plenty but not in central WI. We were in IN two weeks ago and saw lots of fields under water and a few back roads closed due to washouts. Sad! Wisconsin has been a tale of the "haves" and "have nots" when it comes to rain lately (that quote came from a local meteorologist). Because the official reporting station for precipitation and temperatures is about 30+ miles from here, that's what goes out as our statistics. But...Monday for example, the reporting station said .13 of an inch of rain. A report from 3 miles away from my house said .94 of an inch. My rain gauge showed 1.25 inches. I mean, it poured like mad for a stretch - several times that day. It was funny watching the radar - seeing us under the yellows, oranges and reds of heavy rain, and the reporting station showing the green of light rain. So I knew that "officially" we ended the month slightly lower than average rainfall, but at my house - well above. No flooding, thank goodness. Just a good amount of rain and a bumper crop of mosquitoes. I did think that central WI got a lot of rain last month, but apparently it's like northern WI - some did, some didn't. I sure do hope that the precipitation starts evening out for people - neither extreme is good. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 15:13:42 GMT
It depends were you are in central WI. Rib Mountain play havoc with storms as they seem to split apart as they hit the mountain and don't come back together until they are east of us. We have had two or three drops in the last couple weeks even though we have had severe storm warnings and nasty clouds all around us. In the scope of everything I'm not complaining because others have it much worse. Watering and dragging hoses around is good exercise!
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Post by susannah on Jul 7, 2015 19:24:00 GMT
It depends were you are in central WI. Rib Mountain play havoc with storms as they seem to split apart as they hit the mountain and don't come back together until they are east of us. We have had two or three drops in the last couple weeks even though we have had severe storm warnings and nasty clouds all around us. In the scope of everything I'm not complaining because others have it much worse. Watering and dragging hoses around is good exercise! We got another 2+ inches of rain yesterday - I hope you were able to get some of the rain, too. While we really didn't need 2 more inches, since the River Falls are got 7+ inches of rain yesterday, we got let off easy. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2015 19:48:06 GMT
It depends were you are in central WI. Rib Mountain play havoc with storms as they seem to split apart as they hit the mountain and don't come back together until they are east of us. We have had two or three drops in the last couple weeks even though we have had severe storm warnings and nasty clouds all around us. In the scope of everything I'm not complaining because others have it much worse. Watering and dragging hoses around is good exercise! We got another 2+ inches of rain yesterday - I hope you were able to get some of the rain, too. While we really didn't need 2 more inches, since the River Falls are got 7+ inches of rain yesterday, we got let off easy. We did manage to get almost a half inch of rain. Areas 10 miles in directions around us received 1 -1.5 inches. My son lives in MN not that far from River Falls - anxious to talk to him to see what they got. Lawns that don't get watered are turning brown so we are still very dry. |
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