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In reply to the discussion: We have rain! Sheets of it! [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)42. Congrats and glad you got it
Having something to moisten the ground helps to start to break the cycle. Hopefully folks in the central U.S. can cash in on some of Ernesto's rain if it manages to head that way and survive as a tropical rainstorm.
We got some rain here at the same time that you posted! Lots of thunder and lightning and old fashioned showers with huge drops of rain that moved in disconnected sheets. Now it's more slop bin then the slop bin that we were having.
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Awesome. Here in north central Idaho, we've had a pretty wet summer so far, for us. We can easily
brewens
Aug 2012
#12
I have this picture in my head of lots of Iowans out doing celebratory rain dances!
tpsbmam
Aug 2012
#30
I would, but the neighbors would call for a "happy" wagon to come take me away.
Frustratedlady
Aug 2012
#35
We had rain this morning, too. Light sprinkles on the roof for a few minutes.
kestrel91316
Aug 2012
#47