Rain, rain, we got RAIN! by Niki2

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Rain, rain, we got RAIN!

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Thursday, September 24, 2009 14:08
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Monday, September 14, 2009 7:45 AM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

In September, even! Sorry, just so thrilled I had to rattle about it. Two nights ago I was awakened by a huge clap of thunder. Didn't know what it was--flashes of global war, apocalypse through my brain until lightning hit...wheee! See, we rarely see much lightning, with the hills and all--tons of it out in the Bay, but not here.

It went on for THREE HOURS...more lightning and thunder than we get in about four years. Was a total thrill, cheshire-cat grin on my face the whole time. Felt a few of what we call "shprittles"--something between heavy fog and light rain--so scrambled to put the tarp over the Outback before I went back to bed.

Hadn't expected it, so checked the weather next day when it was overcast and coolish...damned if it didn't say RAIN for last night. So I battened down the Outback tarp, and sure enough, it started sprinkling mid-afternoon...the real thing, albeit light and we expected it to go away soonest.

But it didn't; and last evening and into the night it honest-to-gawd, really RAINED!! What joy; we took the dogs walking up on the Divide in the afternoon--the Mountain was swathed in post-rain pseudo-clouds here and there, and it stayed overcast all day...we even got sprinkled on while walking. It's sooo beautiful up there when there's a storm in town, you can see forever and the breeze is delish. What joy, also, to go to sleep with the sound of it pounding on the tarp overhead, to smell the freshness, watch it come down...you have no idea how this gladdens the heart of a Californian. About two months early; normally our rains don't even START until mid-December, and the real ones come first of the year.

We've been in a drought. Well, not "we", 'cuz Marin has our own lakes which provide our water, but the rest of California. So now the usual worrying starts: was it the precursor to early rains, which mean not much help with the water table later on and potentially continuing drought? Was it harbinger of one of those wonderful Winters when we get drenched (fewer and fewer the past ten years), which means of course worrying about floods and landslides, but hey, we'll take it! Does it mean a wet year, or will this be the only one for months, and the drought continues?

I'll tell 'ya, we're never relaxed and happy about rain, much as we joy in it.

Okay, that's my rant for the day; it has, of course, dawned sunny and we'll be in the 80s again, probably for the next two months as usual, but hey ho, it sure was a dream come true while it lasted!

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Monday, September 14, 2009 10:24 AM

MSA

Send it our way please....

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, September 14, 2009 10:48 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Well, I WOULD, but we needed it too desperately. Besides, it's left us and headed East...sigh...we're only getting some clouds and a breeze to remind us. Almost back to normal.

We have an advertisement out here--in fact several--that always makes me giggle. It's for creamery products from California, "Happy cows come from California" sort of thing.

It shows a bunch of cows munching happily in a field; one looks up, screeches and starts running. They all start running and screaming in different directions, then they stop, and one, puffing and panting, says "whew, that was close!"

Pan up and you see a blue sky, one tiny cloud floating in the middle. Pan back down and another wheezing cow says "I HATE it when that happens!"

Yup, that's about it in Summer. Even that one stray cloud would be an anomaly

Where are you? D'ya know I was in my early twenties before I learned there were places in America where it stayed GREEN in Summer?? I thought everywhere went as brown as we do...poor naive thing that I was! Now, of course, I know better, but that most of those places also get snow in Winter, so I'm not quite so jealous.

We had snow about five years ago. It was only a few flakes--in fact they were drifting down in the front yard, but nothing in the back. Very exciting, nonetheless, hee, hee, hee.

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Monday, September 14, 2009 11:17 AM

LWAVES

I love storms.

On a normal night if someone creeps downstairs the sound of their breathing is enough to wake me up into that dull slumbersome sleep. Creeky stairs and I am wide awake in a flash.
But you give me a good dose of rain, some whallops of thunder topped off with a dash of crackling lightning and it's the best night's sleep I have. Not one bit of it wakes me up.
And when I was a teen the house two doors up got hit by lightning and caught fire (only small, just the one fire engine.) It was torrential rain all the time, sirens blaring but guess who slept through the lot. My parents woke me to tell me to get dressed quickly as we had to get out for safety reasons.
I had to ask why.

"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."

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Monday, September 14, 2009 2:58 PM

TRAVELER

Were getting heat. It waited until September to get hot here.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Monday, September 14, 2009 3:02 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I love storms, too, I just wiggle down under the covers and fall asleep with a biiiig grin on my face (I have slept outdoors in what we call th Outback--one of those canvas "pavillion" thingies--for about 6-7 years now; can't imagine sleeping indoors, too stuffy!).

August and September are usually our hottest months, that's why it's been such a treat. My sympathies--I HATE HEAT!!!

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Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:16 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Here in ATL, we've gotten more rain for the past 2 weeks than I can recall in a VERY long time. The creek near my place actually overflowed and covered the bridge, which I've not seen happen since a hurricane came through here, 7-8 yrs ago.

The T.Rex they call JANE!

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Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:08 PM

BORIS

It's really nice to hear someone's getting rain and appreciating it...enjoy it heartily....and if you can try to send some of it to the dry dusty bowl that used to be Goulburn Australia and surrounding country areas. My friends there tell me they' ve practically forgotten what rain tastes and smells like it's been so long. I Am revelling in the few weeks of Spring weather we have in Newcastle before the stinking hot humid summer hits. So glad I bought all those cotton clothes in India a few years ago. Also glad the beach is a mere 1/2 hour bus drive away.

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