There be rain here!

annie oakley · Post by **annie oakley** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:08 pm

Finally, we are getting rain off and on here and it headed toward Tex's part of the country. Nothing sweeter than the sound of rain on a tin roof in the middle of a drought. Love Oma

JJ · Post by JJ » Sat Jan 28, 2006 12:35 am

I'm happy for ya Oma! It sounds goofy, but I miss the sound of rain when it is dry in the NW.....but, haven't had many dry days this winter. JJ

Lucy · Post by **Lucy** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:28 am

Hi Oma,

It should be on the coast some time later (Saturday), but Sunday, it's supposed to be clear and nice again.

Glad you finally got some rain!

Yours, Luce

Polly · Post by **Polly** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:01 am

Awwwwww. good! So my rain dance is working! LOL!

Love,

Polly

artteacher · Post by **artteacher** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 11:19 am

Hi Oma,

We are 102 days without rain, here. Broke the all time record of 101 days. And we don't have any coming in the near future. When I go out and trim the bushes, poofs of dust come off them. I'm kind of jealous of your rain.

annie oakley · Post by **annie oakley** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:16 pm

Artteacher.......My sone lives in Suprise Az....I feel for you, you guys are having a drought as well as us. It's scarey huh? I hope you get some rain soon....Like Polly I will do a rain dance for you. Love Oma

Liz · Post by **Liz** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:26 pm

Hope you get rain soon Marsha. Know what it is like. We are in drought still here but things could be looking up because there is the first cyclone of the season up north & they are getting buckets of rain. Just hope a little will work it's way down here. More cyclones are predicted this year so I hope they are right. Not that we want destructive ones like some we have had in the past. Just little ones with lots of drenching rain like "Jim", the one hanging about at the moment. We havn't had a proper wet season for years so are due for one.

Love

Liz

Post by **tex** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:59 pm

We received 1.05 inches, (2.67 cm), of rain, when that impulse passed through here. That was the most rain we've had since October 10th, and it was a nice, slow, soaking rain.

Love,
Wayne

Liz · Post by **Liz** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:32 pm

That's the kind you need Wayne. Not storms that just run off & take the topsoil with it.

Love

Liz

Lucy · Post by **Lucy** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:02 pm

WHAT topsoil? Haha!

Actually, we had one of those slow soaker type rains a few days ago, so I was glad to see that, knowing that we could very well get some heavier rain soon after that. Sure enough, the coastal end of that impulse came right on through today, but it sure was heavier than you described, Wayne.

You might know it, we had Mom out getting her hair done, and before we could get back into the car, the drops had started falling.
By the time we got her home, it was really pouring, and wasn't going to stop, so we just waited for any kind of let up. Thank goodness for those plastic hair bonnets!

The bad thing about it was that, due to her recently infected toe (now better on antibiotics), and soreness where it may be rubbing against the top of her high toe shoes or where she's starting to have the toe become ingrown(???), she was wearing a very loose old sock to cover the ace with another little slip-on sock over that that's made of fairly thick yard, and no shoe on that foot, That setup would've been fine just riding in the wheelchair if it'd been dry, but in all that rain, the whole thing became drenched and therefore, cold. Took a while to warm up that foot, particularly since the ace got a bit tight around her foot. That was scary! At least she didn't have far to go before she could get another warm sock on her foot, and it was time for the ace to come off anyway.

As far as the rest of us, we could do a dance right out in the rain, we're so happy to see it.

Yours,Luce

annie oakley · Post by **annie oakley** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:00 pm

We got close to that amount wayne. Love Oma