OK, it can stop raining any time now

[B2G]

We are completely soaked. 2 inches of rain the past 3 days and today alone we're supposed to get 2-4 more.

I'm over it.

[mimi85]

1. Hey, send some to California. Please send some to us! Pretty please?

[B2G]

5. I would love to

I'm sure my whining strikes those in CA as, well...asinine given your situation, but we're looking at some pretty nasty flooding today, along with severe storms. I'm afraid if the winds are high, a lot of trees are going to go down.

On the upside, my lawn and garden look fantastic...if only I could get out to tend to them.

[cilla4progress]

7. But where are you?

nt

[B2G]

9. NC nt

[mnhtnbb]

14. What part of NC?

I'm in Chapel Hill. My rain gauge showed 2 inches this past week. It's empty and ready for more.

Looks like the thunderstorms will hit us in about an hour.

We had trees--big ones-- come down around here from all the rain last fall.

[B2G]

15. Charlotte

Have a break right now but the bad stuff is moving in around 4 or 5.

And now we're under tornado watch.

[mnhtnbb]

16. So far the thunderstorms haven't materialized.

Just getting some soft rain.

Hope you're ok!

We lived in tornado alley for 12 years in MO and NE--hit the basement a few times--but never experienced
a tornado until we were in Raleigh at a matinee of the Carolina ballet on Saturday, April 16, 2011.
We heard that freight train coming over head! Scary stuff to come out and see the aftermath.

[B2G]

41. No strong storms but 3 inches of rain in 2 hours

I have never seen the kind of runoff we had. It's a total mess. And more severe storms possible this afternoon.

I remember that tornado. My relatives live in Cary...the pics were wild.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. I mailed you some ice cubes last week. Didn't you get them????

We have too much rain here, I will gladly share.

[titaniumsalute]

2. Wow what a deep post...

Where are you? Is that normal? Why is it a problem?

[B2G]

6. The biggest risk is downed trees right now

Severe storms will be moving in this afternoon...not a good combo with completely saturated soil.

I'm in NC...

ETA, thanks for your 'concern'.

[titaniumsalute]

22. I would be more concerned if I had an idea of what you were talking about

Now I do...and hope it goes well. Sometimes these very subjective posts drive me nuts.

[malaise]

29. Clearly you haven't seen news on weather in the South today

Scary stuff and it's heading east complete with tornadoes.

[titaniumsalute]

32. No I had not...at that point of the day. I have now...

Scary stuff.

[Journeyman]

3. Alex, what are, "Words not heard in California in almost a decade?" . . .

[DeadLetterOffice]

4. It's supposed to start here tonight & keep it up all week.

Which would be less irritating if I didn't live on a creek prone to flooding.

I really think the brainiacs should figure out how to efficiently & cost effectively move our excess water out west...

[B2G]

8. Yeah, cause that's a really easy problem to solve...

[DeadLetterOffice]

10. Well yes, I know.

But one can dream, yes?

[hobbit709]

11. Around here when it rains we can get 3+ inches in an hour or less.

Last year one thunderstorm dumped 11 inches in an hour and a half.

[B2G]

12. wow...are you in FL?

[hobbit709]

13. Austin, TX.

When it rains like that, we call them toad stranglers.
The problem is that we may get half a years average rainfall in two days and then nothing for 6 months.

[Aerows]

17. We were absolutely floating

on the Gulf Coast earlier this week. I should have taken pictures of the back yard - easily 2 inches of standing water.

It washed a box turtle up onto the driveway and I rescued him from being stuck when the water receded.

It's still threatening to shower here off and on, but luckily we got a respite part of yesterday and part of today.

It RAINED - that hard, thundering loud rain that usually blows itself out after about 30 minutes - not this mess, though. It was a steady downpour Monday and Tuesday.

I had to laugh at the drought monitor

We (and New Orleans that broke a record for most rainfall in a single day on Tuesday) are listed as in a moderate drought LOL! Looks like your area is "abnormally dry" too

[B2G]

23. Yeah, that drought monitor is on crack.

[greymattermom]

18. Rain every day for every

and I'm planning to have a new deck built. Location: Atlanta

[FLPanhandle]

20. I'm getting as pale as a northerner

Torrential rains this morning on top of a couple of weeks of mostly rain.

Please stop!

[raccoon]

21. Upstate SC as well. Wish we could send some to CA. nt

[realFedUp]

24. I do feel for weather soaked US areas

And despair our drought in West.

[Raine1967]

25. I feel for the ran soaked as much as I do for the drought areas.

It is way to manic as of late.

[d_r]

26. I flew from California

to Tennessee last night. From drought to floods. I've heard the climate changes will result in dry areas being drier and wet areas being wetter. Not just a big disruption to human populations - and to the crops in California and the South - but also to nature. Think about the bird migrations and the need for wetlands, etc.

[calimary]

35. Oh but nobody wants to think about those silly things.

Besides, it's bad for BIZness... No profit in it.



Hey, did you hear the one about "nuisance flooding" in coastal Florida? Calling it what it is - "CLIMATE CHANGE" and even "rising ocean levels" must not be spoken in the Sunshine State.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141071038

[d_r]

38. nuisance flooding

[calimary]

39. Yeah. "Nuisance flooding."

Un-freakin'-believable.

[Siwsan]

27. We're headed to Asheville, on Thursday

I'm hoping it dries up before we get there!

[mercuryblues]

28. ok I confess

All this rain is my fault. Last week, when I pulled into the garage, I left the top down to my convertible. I had plans to go out the next day to do a few things. Since then it has been raining, my car is still in the garage with its top down and I have been driving my spouse's car.

Do you want me to put the top up, so it will stop raining?

[B2G]

30. Yes. Please and thank you. And carry an umbrella.

[beam me up scottie]

31. We've gotten over 7 inches this week.

2 just today, our back fields are now small lakes and a river that runs underneath the property is gushing over the bank like a waterfall.

But you should hear the frogs at night.

[woolldog]

33. my power has been out for 5+ hours now

ugh

[calimary]

34. Oh MAN if ONLY we could say that here in SoCal! In the entire state, for that matter.

MAN-oh-MAN are we parched.

[840high]

36. Trees are toppling over

in Ga. Enough. Power outages.

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. These more dramatic weather patterns

deepening storms in the East and deepening droughts in the west were predicted.

Now if we could get your extra water.

Now be careful, those storms can be just as dangerous as my lovely wild fires. You drown, Chino burns...

[LiberalFighter]

40. I'm with you on that.

Let it snow instead.