Consolation

I actually like rain. I like English weather.

But this is ridiculous. It was either the 4th or 5th rainiest June on record. Tonight, driving home from choir practice cars were throwing up rooster tails on the highway.

I remember a week of gorgeous days in May.

Admittedly, I hate hot weather and I would take even this over triple digit heat. But I am SO done with rain now. SO TOTALLY DONE!!

menloparkmom

What is the new term I read about in the NYTimes? Rain rage? Yeah, sounds like an apt description of what those on the east coast are feeling.

jellxtoxthexo

In good news, I haven't had to dish out $7 for a car wash in months.

bclintonk

Hmmm . . . sunny and low 80s here in Minnesota, right through the holiday weekend. C'mon over to Sunny Minnesota. Plenty of brats & beer, fireworks, a free outdoor performance of Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion to celebrate the show's 35th anniversary. Life is good here on the edge of the prairie . . . .

BCEagle91

This morning I felt like turning on the heat. Fortunately natural gas is much cheaper than electricity.

blackeyedsusan

Please send some of it this way. We've had temps 100+ for the past 4 weeks with maybe about 10 minutes of rain total during the entire 4-week period.

JustAMomOf4

I went to NH in mid June with the girls. They had no idea it could be that cold in June. We woke up to pouring rain and 50 deg and promptly went to the mall to buy sweatshirts.

I was planning on going up over the 4th to see my dad. When he told me it hadn't hit 70 and had rained all week, I begged off. Nothing worse that sitting around in the rain with a bunch of frustrated golfers!

AnudduhMom

Not to mention, bclintonk, you have a new Senator!

Bromfield

D2 is a counselor at a camp that's near North Conway, NH, and it's been in the 40s at night. Her campers started last Saturday and it's rained every day.

There's sun here in Central MA right now. I can't believe how my mood changed when I saw it.

maineparent

We have had a few glimpses of SUN today.....some blue sky...... fleeting at times, but it is NOT raining as I type.......

Happy, Happy, Happy!!

ucsd_ucla_dad

Look at the bright side - it's so nice and green around there and that requires rain. Imagine - grass that grows without having to buy water for it! You wouldn't like to have to pay what I'm paying for water around here.

But I understand - I've done vacations in the UK where it rained or sprinkled/drizzled almost all the time and it does put a 'damper' on it. But again, that's why it's so green around there.

btw - we enjoyed our time last week up in your neck of the woods including all the greenery but again, the weather was generally pretty decent during the week we were there.

garland

ucdad--I think if I lived where you do, I would not grow grass. I'd definitely do some sort of xeroscaping. Even here in the NE, we don't water no matter how dry it gets. We get droughts, too, and I hate to use water on that. I figure brown grass in August is nature's way of telling us fall is coming.

2bizee

Dateline, Western Mass

So we thought we had sealed up all the leaks in our lovely basement room once and for all. Had the dehumidifier going down there, then yesterday- more rain and WATER all over the floor. S1 spent all afternoon mopping and searching for the leak. Turns out he emptied the humidifier and forgot to put the plug back in.

It would be a good lesson learned, if we thought he would remember next time....

sueinphilly

can I suggest an alarm that sounds when the floor is just getting wet. At least you will get notice that that is a problem before too much damage is done. A big wet/dry vac is your best defense against the inflow of water.

marite

So, the sun came out and we ventured out. The weeds have grown! Now I know how we're going to spend tomorrow...