Rain

How bad is the leak?

Buckets in places. But it doesn't rain here much.

We had just a small bit of rain yesterday, the first in 2 months.
This brought about an interesting phenomena, people standing around in the rain.
Apparently, long dry spells have a direct effect on our spirit.

I went out and stood in the drizzle for a while last night. I'm hoping for another opportunity to do that today.

I'm ready for more too.
I thought it was rather interesting that everyone ( it seems ) had the same reaction to the rain, normally I would avoid standing in it.
I never knew rain could feel so good.

Sorry about your roof, osso, and glad y'all are getting a bit of relief.

I'm hoping Swimpy is ok with 8 - 14" of rain in the past 24 hours and there's no sign of it stopping anytime soon. We've had about 1.5" on top of 2+ the day before. Everything is soggy, no significant flooding nearby that I know of.

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Yikes! for Swimpy.

for us, we have 20% or 30% chance of rain for a few days in a row. None right here so far.

Night before last, it rained here too. I know it did because after the thunder, lightning, and being blown around by the wind, the sun came up and there were little mud spots on the windshield.

Rain? You wanna know about rain? I've been told on pretty good authority that my current place of residence -- Hilo, HI (that's on the so-called Big Island of Hawaii itself) -- is the only place on earth where things that aren't even metal can rust.

That's beginning to sound good..

That's easy for you to say, Osso.

I don't need no stinking rain. Let it rain in Durango till the mudslides ease the houses into the river. We get our water from the river, not rainfall.

We are currently having a thunder storm in Tampa Bay, pouring outside!

The rain in Spain
Falls mainly on the plain
Lerner & Lowe

The rain Durango
Does mainly a tango
Roger

Btw, Rog, you say that you get your water from the river, not from rain. Wonder where that river gets its water? The Rio Grande is practically a dry gulch most of the year, at least until it reaches the Texas border. In El Paso it's a river, not much north of there.

Awwwww, I loved that. Hadn't seen it before.

I imagine even our rivers get their water from rain and mountain snow melt. The Animas starts essentially at Silverton Colorado, maybe 40 miles north of Durango. The mighty San Juan's headwaters are Wolf Creek Pass, also in Colorado.

The South Fork of the Rio Grande also rises from Wolf Creek Pass, not many feet from the San Juan. On a rainy day, you can see the distinct beginnings of both. When you translate Rio Grande, you do get the idea that those who named it weren't used to much in the way of rivers.

I don't know why the Lower Rio Grande would be larger than the upper. We also have the La Plata here, and it completely disappears for stretches as irrigation water is taken out, and reappears when the ditches return to the rivers. Maybe a similar effect takes place with the Rio Grande.

I thought a few of those lighning bolts here in Sarasota were going right through my place. One or two of them set off a few car alarms in the parking lot.

Same in Tampa, when I left for lunch it was raining so hard the wiper blades couldn't keep up.