This morning I was thinking again about how I never appreciated the rain til experiencing the drought. Growing up in southwest Louisiana, I would have sworn it rained every day.
We finally got some much needed rain last night, it’s been raining off and on this morning and we have an 80% chance of rain tonight.
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When I woke up this morning, it was pouring and there was a lot of water on the ground. Can you see the rain falling there in the light? Rain is a beautiful sight for us! The weird thing on the bottom right of the photo . . I had the fireplace screen outside scrubbing it. It gets full of dust, I wash it with a soapy brush but when it dries, I see more dust so it takes a few tries before I get it clean . . and then in no time, it will be dirty and dusty again.
Yesterday while out working in the garden, I sat down and said to myself “WHY? . . Why am I trying to grow a garden in an area where we get NO rain?” I had been trying to conserve water and was barely keeping things alive but was losing the battle. We’ve had rain in our forecast for several days and it seems to just split and go right around us.
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We had so much rain in such a short time that some of the streets in town are closed due to flooding. Pretty weird . . the grown was hard and cracked yesterday and today, there’s flooding. We don’t have any flooding at our place and while I appreciate the rain, I feel bad for those in the flooded areas.
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This much rain in July is going to do wonders for our area! The grass is happy. The fruit trees are happy. The garden is happy. I’m guessing the firemen are happy as the rain surely helped decrease our chances of wild fires.
Sherrill says
That’s what it’s doing in my area right now–splitting and going all around us! 🙁 Sure hope we get some of out this as areas to the north are getting 10-12″!!!
julie says
Hi Judy, up here in North Texas we are flooding!! Highway 35 was closed…
Mary in VA says
Save some for us! We’ve been having the same issue – rain all around us but not where we are. I have powdery mildew and black spots on my plants because of the humidity but the ground is dry. The beans are blooming, the bees are busy, and the tomatoes are turning red – which is why I love gardening!
Diana in RR,TX says
It’s been going around us too. We get a few drops, enough to spot the cars and not much else. A hundreth here and a hundreth there. The rain gauge creeps up ever so slowly. But the sun isn’t blazing so that is good. Our good chance today is this afternoon and into evening. Here’s hoping.
Sue in Scottsdale, AZ says
Oh how I wish we would get a good soaking. The Phoenix area has had rain all round the Valley and where live in Scottsdale, we have had only a few spits. The other day we actually had a good monsoon come in and at my house it was over in a few minutes – enough to make mud on the cars and blow dust and leaves into the pool. Not much rain for us – less than a hundredth of an inch! They tell us we live in a “heat island” caused by all the high rise buildings, roads, concrete, etc. I remember when I moved here in 1975 every afternoon about 5 pm (on my way home from work) a monsoon storm moved in and we had huge dust storms followed by a downpour. We still get the dust (but not as often) but NO rain. I never thought I’d pray for rain!
liz says
We’ve had 3 inches so far and hoping for more in OKC. It’s 66 degrees and projected to be 62 overnight. This is July? Crazy weather, but I’ll take the rain and cooldown.
Hope you get some more rain, though I hope it is slow and gentle to let more of the water to soak into the ground and not just run off to the streams.
Rebecca in SoCal says
I was astonished when a friend told me she had gotten rain recently, but she is “up in the mountains.” DH is trying to keep the lawn in the back yard alive, but what I see out the kitchen is hopeless. I would be happy to get measurable rain, but don’t look for it for a few months.
When we do get rain, it isn’t enough to reduce fire risk, but it sure sounds like yours accomplished that!
Liz says
we could sure use your rain right now. we are in central Washington state, sitting smack dab between two major forest fires, 1 @10 miles north and the other about 30 miles north west. the entire Wenatchee valley was thick with smoke and ash all day. we couldn’t see across the river — just a wall of icky smoke.