so some of you may be TIRED OF THE RAIN. well here in Arizona, we are having a very lovely rainy morning. The temp just dropped 2 degrees to 75. I'm planing on reading outloud to the kids, making oatmeal cookies and just plain having a nice rainy day that is so rare to us. Don't get me wrong I still HATE it here:evil:
I wish we had some of the rain. It is fascinating how the weather is sooo different from the east to the west coast.
It is a lovely morning here in AZ! I even had some tea on the patio this morning, which I usually only get to do in the winter. It was nice to enjoy the morning.
Yes, but remember that we will be loving our weather in AZ once winter rolls around and it is snowing everywhere else. I LOVE being able to spend the day at the park or desert museum in the winter. Just make it through the misery of summer and life will be good! On a side note, dh said we got 4 inches of rain 2 nights ago. 4 inches!!!! I knew we were getting a good storm, but that is unheard of.
This is the benefit we do not have where I am in SoCal. This part of the Mojave Desert has extremes in temperatures. We have the heat and the cold. Granted I am not talking about Michigan cold, but we get snow and have deep freezes. While we can spend the days in the park during winter, we have to dress a bit warmer. However, our freezing season is short lived compared to the warm and hot seasons. While the cold is a nice break, I sometimes wish that we can have just nice weather.
WOW !! We usually get that in one passing of rain. It is amazing how from one coast to the other, the weather appears to be so much different that what we're accustomed to. We've had a LOT of rain here this summer... I often wish we could drag the clouds back over Texas and let them have what they so desparately need Here many people complain about the amount of rain, then you read of the stories of fires and drought... really gives you a lot to be thankful for
well we don't have a rain gauge but I think we got about 2 inches, that was one night, and some more the previous night........
No rain gauge, but dh read it "somewhere", no clue where, that man has so many internet resources.:lol:
I often think, we may not be able to drag the clouds, but someone should come up with a canal system to route the rain from one state to another. Maybe use chain gangs or something like that.:lol: We use canals all over AZ, why not go interstate. It is sad that some places are flooding while others are dying from lack of rain.
Rain has become a standard 4 letter word around here. Last night I layed in bed and the thunder and lightning started... soon it was pouring It was really enough to make me cry. My hometown is soooo damaged, so many friends lost everything, quite a few houses went down the rivers and streams, some just downright collapsed. People are having to walk their neighborhoods looking for full sized buildings (sheds and such) that are no longer in their yards.
I keep thinking that in this day and age we should have some kind of better way to gather rain and transport it to where its needed.
I wish we could have sent just half of the rain we got around here to TX... you wouldn't have wanted it all.. at least not all at once like we got it I kept trying to convince everyone here to turn all our fans on blowing southwest hoping it would blow the rain that way... but no one listened, or maybe it didn't work?
With the monsoon here, we should have been getting way more rain. Its all around us on the radar on the weather chanel we keep on our desk top....... but I'm not kidding you it feels like we have this bubble over us....... because the rain has just gone past us so many times..... I'm not kidding 2 miles away where my mom's house is they have gotten tons of rain. We swear its because of something to do with the air base.
As has been mentioned, here in Texas, we are in emergency water rationing conditions. Even our native drought-tolerant plants are dying left and right. You know it's bad when even the mountain cedar(which is practically a weed here) is dying. Tomorrow it's supposed to get 106 degrees here. No rain in sight. I just keep telling myself it can't last forever.
Sigh. You're making me miss AZ in the worst way. We've been back in PA for a little over 5 years. Still wake up every morning saying "Dag, wish we'd stayed in Phoenix!". Enjoy your rainy morning. Sniff, sniff.....
Another rain storm is blowing in now, we so need this rain, but if I could I'd happily send it to you Texans because you need it more than we do! Maybe a group of us homeschool mamas or our children will someday invent the drought solution, a pipeline of sorts to carry rain water from areas of abundance (not just flooded areas, but anywhere there is an excess) to areas of need! Though I suppose there would need to be some balance since we really do need deserts (many of the desert plants and wildlife can't live in wet areas). I'm eager for fall (winter?) to arrive here and take the heat away! I've had enough of it!
Well you definately don't want to be able to send flood water to them, it's so full of horrible things.. raw sewage, heating oil, gasoline, pretty much anything yucky you can think of. We need to find a way to collect the water as it comes down and pipe it that way. Seriously, if they can have pipes under the ground that pump oil all over this country (we have one near us that comes up out of the ground that carries oil from Alaska to here to a processing plant thing), we have to be able to come up with a way to pump water in the same manner!
Mojave desert weather....I miss it! I lived in Hesperia and Barstow for a couple of years then moved to Fort Irwin when DD was a baby. We would walk everywhere. The weather was always perfect! Even the rain!
