<p>Need rain? Water for your plants? A supply of nice wet mud??? Come to Ohio!</p>
<p>The rain is OUT OF CONTROL! Currently under a severe thunderstorm warning with indications of : “POSSIBILITY OF INTENSE, RAPID STREET FLOODING - Heavy rain hitting and will continue for 30 minutes straight”. This, after it has rained significantly for something like 17 of the last 18 days.</p>
<p>I know that drought is probably worse. But this is causing much havoc as well! Crops are getting flooded and ruined. Basements - very common here - are flooding over and over again. Heck, we can barely keep up with the grass cutting! Literally cutting it every other day - if we can get it in before it starts raining!!!</p>
<p>It’s been like that every day here in Vermont too. More humid than usual and threats of thunderstorms every day. It’s raining as I type this. Yes, flood warnings and the like here in my region too.</p>
<p>Here in Southern California I looked outside at the clouds and thought to myself, “If I was anywhere else in the country, I’d think it looked like rain.” Thirty seconds later we had a one minute drizzle (probably the last until November).</p>
<p>Please please figure a way to send it to my town in So California. My small community of 10,000 is now under drought alert. We are required to cut our water usage by 20% of our monthly average, or we face fines and a water restrictor on our system. Seems easy enough, but we use about 60% more water in the summertime and that monthly average means summer landscape watering is OUT.</p>
<p>We bought our house during a drought last summer, and didn’t realize until now that the water table is so high when it rains we can’t mow the lawn for 3+ weeks without tearing it up. I have about given up, our whole street flooded last week after a few minutes of rain because it was just that much of a downpour. And we aren’t in a flood zone, my friends downriver are REALLY getting flooded.</p>
<p>On the plus side, we haven’t even had to buy sprinklers yet and doubt we will this year. We are saving a lot of money not having to water the lawn.</p>
<p>We are having crazy amounts of rain here in north/central NJ. Lawns are usually starting to turn brownish by now but ours are all very lush and green.</p>
<p>And the rains have been much harder than usual. No light, gentle rains here.</p>
<p>We had disastrous downpours here in Toronto on Monday, record amounts of rain in a very short time. More than fell during the worst flooding ever in the city due to a hurricane back in the 50s. Terrible flooding all over the city. Power outages. People stranded in elevators and on commuter trains for hours and hours. Parts of the city are still without power. It’s been a very hot, very humid and very wet summer here.</p>
<p>We are in horrible trouble in Texas with the drought. It has been YEARS since we have met rainfall numbers and our largest lake is only 36% full and this is the lake that supplies our drinking water. We can water our lawns twice a month which no one does because you don’t water dead grass. 103 + NO RAIN = dead plants and grass.</p>
<p>The weather forcasters are telling us that this is our last day of rain for a while. I sure hope so. Two of my kids have summer jobs that are dependant on the weather, so haven’t been getting many hours.</p>
<p>We actually have gotten out of drought and are already ahead of rainfall for prior years because we’ve had sprinkling fairly often this year. Very glad we haven’t had mudslides, those are pretty scary. Am glad I purchased hurricane and flood insurance, “just in case,” because our insurance agent is saying there is A LOT of weird and extreme weather these days. The policies are much higher than they were when we first purchased the house and it INCLUDED hurricane (until we had a few hit our state and cause massive losses).</p>