Woke up around 3 am this morning to a deluge from a thunderstorm. Because of all the hot weather and dry conditions I have been been leaving the car windows cracked a couple of inches to reduce heat build up.
With all the thunder, lightening, and rain coming down I quickly got up to get the car windows closed. Standing with the garage door open and a real gully washer coming down, I ran to the car and ducked inside. Sitting in the driver's seat, sopping wet, I realized that the windows were all closed... oops. Maybe it was the other car next to the one I was in.
I got out, locked the car door with rain still pouring down, ran around the back of the car only to find the other car's windows all the way up too. I went back in the house and told my wife what I'd done. With rain water dripping down my head and clothes drenched, we had a good laugh.
Teach you to use your eyes next time instead of your brain didn't it? ROTFL!!
Today at lunch the weather guy talked for almost 5 minutes on the fact that the average daily high temp here is going down 1 degree F as of today!!! Yesterday the average was 90F and today it's 89F, next month it will be near 80F though. And NO hurricanes are forming off the Coast of Africa yet so hopefully that too will continue!!
with respect to hurricanes - ssshhhhhhh! don't jinx us. We still have a long way to go. Officially ends in November, assuming the current conditions don't extend the window.
Wellll it seems you were right, or mother nature decided it's just time as a storm is more than 60% likely to form within the next 5 days that's already off the coast of Africa headed our way!! The local weather guy said the spaghetti models show it turning up towards Bermuda but it's too early to count on that right now.
I was reading about "swamp coolers". Unfortunately they don't work when the the humidity gets up into the 50 percent range. So naturally they work best anyplace it is Dry and Arid. Like anyplace that is experiencing a water shortage...
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
Southern California here. Kay has arrived. Predicted amounts are not that large when it comes to tropical storms. However when compared to annual rainfall in a desert 2 inches is the annual rainfall. It isn't the 30 inches that the east coast gets soaked with when one gets close.
Also it is arriving at exactly the right time. Our major water utility has had to shut a 120 inch diameter pipe to fix a leak. That will take two weeks and they have ordered no watering of plants until the fix is finished. So free water from the sky is a blessing.
RandyC wrote: Woke up around
)
Teach you to use your eyes next time instead of your brain didn't it? ROTFL!!
robl wrote: mikey
)
Wellll it seems you were right, or mother nature decided it's just time as a storm is more than 60% likely to form within the next 5 days that's already off the coast of Africa headed our way!! The local weather guy said the spaghetti models show it turning up towards Bermuda but it's too early to count on that right now.
Hurricanes are
)
Hurricanes are "blowhards"
While white tornados are "dizzy blonds"?
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
I was reading about "swamp
)
I was reading about "swamp coolers". Unfortunately they don't work when the the humidity gets up into the 50 percent range. So naturally they work best anyplace it is Dry and Arid. Like anyplace that is experiencing a water shortage...
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
Keith, It sounds like
)
Keith,
It sounds like southern CA is getting hit with a lot of rain/floods as a side effect of the Hurricane. But I think you are in northern CA?
Is the rain going to run up your direction?
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
Tom, Southern California
)
Tom,
Southern California here. Kay has arrived. Predicted amounts are not that large when it comes to tropical storms. However when compared to annual rainfall in a desert 2 inches is the annual rainfall. It isn't the 30 inches that the east coast gets soaked with when one gets close.
Also it is arriving at exactly the right time. Our major water utility has had to shut a 120 inch diameter pipe to fix a leak. That will take two weeks and they have ordered no watering of plants until the fix is finished. So free water from the sky is a blessing.
What is a PITA is the wind.
Turned on my Furnace for the
)
Turned on my Furnace for the first time this Fall. Still probably have to start up the A/C later today.
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
Gary Charpentier
)
Here on the East Coast we feel the same way about storms!!
Tom M wrote: Turned on my
)
Forgot to switch on A/C and house got a little too hot this afternoon.
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
Gary Charpentier wrote: What
)
What you don't have some home wind power mills? :)
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)