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Fricken rain

by ThomM
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It's rained here every day this week and it looks like we have 4 more days of it coming.
Not steady rain, except for today, but down pours with the lightning and hail.
Yesterday depending on where you where in the area between 4 and 8 inches of rain feel in a approximate 2 hour period.
This is part of an article from wten.com about the rain in Cohoes yesterday.
The clean-up from Wednesday night's flash flooding continued through Thursday, especially in Cohoes. The city was among the hardest hit, getting upwards of three inches of rain an hour.
  • Profile picture of the author Michael Motley
    you in florida? we've been getting pounded all this week. something like 7 inches in some places yesterday alone
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      No that's upstate New York Mike.
      I used to live in Fl. years ago, Tampa in fact over by Sulfur Springs.
      This is worse then anything I've seen any where.
      I've never heard of 3 in. an hour and places getting 8 in. in 3 hours, least not around here.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Thom - if your bike is your shiny metal ass - what are you going to name your ark?

    We were expecting some heavy rains but they turned out to be minor showers - just right for the cherry crops which are bumper crops this year due to the awesome weather!
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Last week on one of my jobs the cherries where ripe on the two cherry trees in her front yard.
      Apparently you can get a stomach ache from eating to many of them, but boy they where good.
      Remember those red raspberries I planted last year?
      Well there is around a gallon of ripe ones out there now and plenty more yet to come.
      The rain isn't really all bad. Between all the rain, the cooler temps and the sun we sometimes get everything is exploding with growth
      Plus the girls that are outside are growing around 3 inches a day

      I'm going to start calling my bike the cobweb hotel though, I haven't rode it much at all because of the rain

      The temps have been real crazy so far. If you thought last summer was cool, be glad you ain't here now.
      67 now and we have hardly had a day in the 80's.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        Remember those red raspberries I planted last year?
        My favorite thing in the whole world! Yum!

        I thought it was going to rain here today...but it didn't....again.

        kay
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        • Profile picture of the author ThomM
          Mine too Kay.
          I don't understand why there isn't more wild ones around here.
          Seems every other part of the state has the wild ones but us.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    ME TOO! Raspberries aren't just good - they contain ellegac acid (sp?) which is a very potent cancer killer - not a preventative, a killer. You need to binge for 72 hours for full effects, but I don't have a problem binging on berries for days. They are soooooo awesome.

    Thom - if you walk down to the road where the golf course road is - that little square of lawn that is lined by trees and bushes?...it's chocked full of black raspberries. Used to graze there with Munchie on our walks and there were actually so many during a few weeks that the stop would fill me up. Breakfast - off the vine, YUM. Doesn't do much for the color of your hands though.

    I just picked a pie worth of mulberries yesterday and am still trying to get the purple out of my fingernails.
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas
    Count yourself lucky, Oh Shiny One.

    Here, it has rained all day, every day, since the dawn of time.

    Mostly, it's stuff known as "soft rain" where it looks as light as mist or fog but, if you don't wear rain gear, it veeeeerrrrryyyyy gradually begins to soak through. It's so imperceptible, you don't notice at first. You think, perhaps, your legs are getting tired but, actually, your clothes are getting heavier from a slow soaking... and you suddently realise your teeth are chattering... and your fingers are a strange bluish colour... and you can't walk in a straight line... and that person coming towards you in the distance has become quite blurry... and, before you know whats happening, you're lying in a deep puddle, churning the water with your violent body shivers, slurring the words of "Show me the way to go home...", with your heart beating 6 times a minute, as people step over your blue face and mutter "Ha hah... You won't forget your rain coat next time, you stupid *******!"

    If you think you can't get immersion hypothermia from walking in the rain (and not even know it), you've never been to Ireland.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      and you can't walk in a straight line
      Thomas - understand your points about the dampness. However, the above symptom and the slurring of words might be less due to hypothermia than to the past few hours spent at the pub.....

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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      If you think you can't get immersion hypothermia from walking in the rain (and not even know it), you've never been to Ireland
      I thought I was getting the immersion hypothermia yesterday morning.
      I started the day in a long sleeve shirt and jeans.
      The first lawn I did had a lot of white pine trees bordering it.
      I was cutting in around them on the rider and after the second tree was soaked to the bone.
      Then I hit the open lawn full tilt, now it was only 64 F. (17C.) out and in that time there where 5 different rain showers.
      When I stopped to have a coffee with the lady that owned the place I was shaking so hard I couldn't hold the cup.
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  • Profile picture of the author VoodooMethods
    It's been raining here the entire month of June near Boston.

    I think we've had 2 actual hot days, but mostly rain and zero sun. It kinda sucks!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Rick McCombs
    We sure could use some of that rain here, Thom. We have been getting about a half inch a week. I was working in the garden today hoeing out weeds and the ground was so hard I couldn't hardly get the hoe in the ground. Time to get Mr. Troy-bilt out.
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