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Rain

I absolutely love rain and, as another poster said, storms. So beautiful and relaxing, especially storms. I love to go sit outside, in a porch, during a hard rain (or storm). I love sleeping during storms but had waking up for work during one. We had a fantastic rain yesterday that made me oversleep. Work sucked- I just wanted to go home and enjoy it.

Then there's snow. Love it!!!
 
We have had the same thing here in Texas twice so far this summer. On the plus side my yard is doing good on the bad side I've been caught on two roads due to flash flooding this year. I need to get a jet ski to start making my way around places if it rains like this again.
 
joepunk said:
I love rain and thunderstorms.

Especially a heavy downpour every once and a while. It has been quite nice having rain this month in the Seattle area.

I'm so glad it didn't rain while we were out there. I think we had perfect weather (mid-70's) every day. It was so clear. We took some gorgeous pics of Mt. Saint Helens.

Helps keep the heat down but brings out the humidity.
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Yeah, that's true in the Southeast as well. :eek:
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I don't mind a quiet rainstorm once in awhile. Here in New England, one of my favorite months is November. Most people hate november, but for some odd reason, it is one of my favorites. Foliage is pretty much over, and the sky is grey and bleak almost every day. The wind has a sting to it, that was not there a few weeks before. Nice and cool.

Anyway, this is interesting. I'm reminded of an old movie called The Last Wave I haven't seen it for awhile. Maybe I'll check it out of netflix.
 
FrankBlack said:
I don't mind a quiet rainstorm once in awhile. Here in New England, one of my favorite months is November. Most people hate november, but for some odd reason, it is one of my favorites. Foliage is pretty much over, and the sky is grey and bleak almost every day. The wind has a sting to it, that was not there a few weeks before. Nice and cool.
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i love it when the weather is like that too. its relaxing.
 
Blue Velvet said:
Do you like the rain?

I can't remember the name of it, but there's a science-fiction short story or novella by Robert Heinlein (I think), where these settlers on a jungle planet are slowly driven insane by the incessant and heavy rain.

That story may as well be about the UK at the moment. We've had months of rainfall in days, non-stop rain for months, 60-year floods... all since April. I've never seen a summer like it... truly extraordinary.









...and it's driving me absolutely mental. :mad:


People's houses in the country are getting looted, have no drinking water, their possessions are ruined, the shops are holding huge sales of summer clothing, there are warehouses of unsold BBQ equipment stockpiled all over the country... and my clothes are taking ages to dry.

I'm abso-bloody-lutely fecking fed up to the back teeth.
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Sounds like half of what New Orleans got a few years back.
Welcome UK, to the fallout of a east coast hurricane.
When hurricanes come near our house, we are picking up huge tree limbs for days, we have no cable or power (or phone, damned comcast voip). And even worse, no running water...at all. We have a well, and the pumps are 220V pumps and the generator we have (it was to be used on a boat normally) would only do 120V. However, because my mom had to go to work, she had to have a shower, which meant, hotel. I lived in a hotel for 5 days with no clothes to change into, no toiletries, and no entertainment because it rained all the time and my parents were at work. The 133MHZ pentium MMX laptop I managed to grab before we moved to the hotel was more of a pain than entertainment.

On the bright side, I could use my canoe in my back yard. (my neighbors Kayak'ed)

Solution(!): Go watch movies, alot of them. Get a game console, or if you have a windows partition, games. Lots.... Think about it this way, you can be a dirty stinky gamer for a few days!
 
Jaffa Cake said:
A fantastic idea, unless you're one of the thousands of homes without power, or who's electrical equipment has been ruined by sewage-contaminated water.

By the way... it's raining again. :(
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Did you have a sunny day up North yesterday?
 
Jaffa Cake said:
Don’t know, I was in bed all day poorly.* I think there was a bit of drizzle.

* Not due to my coming into contact with any mucky water or owt.
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Ah, couldn't handle your beer then...;)

We had a lovely warm sunny day, now it's making up for it!:rolleyes:
 
I can't help but feel a little responsible for all of the rain we're having. I bought a convertible the day before it all started going t*ts-up and it has rained ever since. Plus I also bought some new glasses with those polarizing lens thingies so I can drive my convertible without getting the sun in my eyes......i'm sorry everyone.
 
MacRy said:
I can't help but feel a little responsible for all of the rain we're having. I bought a convertible the day before it all started going t*ts-up and it has rained ever since. Plus I also bought some new glasses with those polarizing lens thingies so I can drive my convertible without getting the sun in my eyes......i'm sorry everyone.
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Don't be silly. Everyone knows the weathers only been sh*t since Gordon Brown took over.
 
MACDRIVE said:
I don't know why you Brits think you need so much rain over there; don't you mostly just have concrete and asphalt in London? :confused:
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Yeah you're right. We should all just learn to drink Coke if we're thirsty.

And when Richmond Park, Hampstead Heath, Hyde Park, Wimbledon Common, Blackheath, Regent's Park, Epping Forest, Clapham Common etc. all turn to dust bowls we can use them to roll around in to keep ourselves clean, like elephants.
 
Brize said:
We've lost our water supply here this evening after the local treatment plant was flooded. Severn Trent Water are estimating between seven and fourteen days before the plant's back in action! Should be interesting...
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Saw that on the front page of a paper at a motorway service area yesterday. Showed a building half-submerged in muddy water and had the caption "Water, water everywhere . . . and not a drop to drink" Ironic isn't it? Hope you get sorted quickly.

I can't help but feel a little responsible for all of the rain we're having. I bought a convertible the day before it all started going t*ts-up and it has rained ever since. Plus I also bought some new glasses with those polarizing lens thingies so I can drive my convertible without getting the sun in my eyes......i'm sorry everyone.
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I'll share your blame, MacRy. I did exactly the same, towards the end of April, just when the good weather stopped!
 
MACDRIVE said:
I don't know why you Brits think you need so much rain over there; don't you mostly just have concrete and asphalt in London? :confused:
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Because London is just one large city and not England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland? Has London even had a flood yet?! I invite you to take a look at my photo galleries taken from my area, they're on my websites homepage. I suggest Saddleworth first. Green, green, green as far as the eye can see.

See the moors just aren't absorbing the water much. When I'm up there now it just seems too saturated, even with higher reservoir levels being low. It's as if it's just running off the hills and down into places like Hull, Sheffield and co.
 
raggedjimmi said:
It's as if it's just running off the hills and down into places like Hull, Sheffield and co.
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That's exactly what happened to South Yorkshire a few weeks back – water ran off the saturated hills into the valleys, swelling the rivers until they burst.

Here in Hull things were a little different – we're very flat so we didn't have the problem with run-off, the problem was the ground was so saturated from previous weeks of rain that it couldn't cope with the high volumes of water that were falling. I think I'm right in saying that no rivers or waterways burst their banks around here, the water just pooled where it fell because there was nowhere else for it to go.

Just as an indication of how heavy the rain was, the Met Office chap on the radio this morning reckoned that – at the peak of the rain – 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water was falling on Hull every second. :eek:
 
dynamicv said:
Yeah you're right. We should all just learn to drink Coke if we're thirsty.

And when Richmond Park, Hampstead Heath, Hyde Park, Wimbledon Common, Blackheath, Regent's Park, Epping Forest, Clapham Common etc. all turn to dust bowls we can use them to roll around in to keep ourselves clean, like elephants.
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bartelby said:
I don't know why you Yanks need to make such ridiculous comments...:rolleyes:
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iBlue said:
spoken like a man who knows very VERY little about the area as a whole.
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raggedjimmi said:
Because London is just one large city and not England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland? Has London even had a flood yet?! I invite you to take a look at my photo galleries taken from my area, they're on my websites homepage. I suggest Saddleworth first. Green, green, green as far as the eye can see.

See the moors just aren't absorbing the water much. When I'm up there now it just seems too saturated, even with higher reservoir levels being low. It's as if it's just running off the hills and down into places like Hull, Sheffield and co.
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Like I've said before, I carefully word my posts for maximum impact; you guys have been played. :D
 
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