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The rain continues...

151949 — Wed, 30 May 2018 15:16:36 GMT

Since Alberto is well past us I got up this morning thinking I'd go to water aerobics. Despite that it was very cloudy - we haven't seen much sun in the last 2 weeks -I was getting my gear together and thought I heard thunder in the distance. I looked at Weather bug on my phone and it said lightening was 3 miles away. So I know that means the pool is closed. We are in our third straight week of daily rainstorms. This morning it came with thunder and lightening. Everything outside is damp and soggy. The weatherman said we may get sunshine next Sunday. I brought in the cushions from the porch furniture and washed & dried them and told DH I think we need to keep them inside thru the summer unless we go out to sit, because they tend to get mildewed when they are damp.

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Imaoldhippie — Wed, 30 May 2018 15:20:21 GMT

We here in western NC are seeing a few glimpses of sun today. Its been raining here most of the month.

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YorkieonmyPillow — Wed, 30 May 2018 15:26:24 GMT

It rained so hard here this morning I thought we were going to float away.

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Laura14 — Wed, 30 May 2018 15:30:14 GMT

High fived Noah and the animals at breakfast again this morning as they made another lap.

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Annabellethecat66 — Wed, 30 May 2018 15:33:05 GMT

It's been cloudy and mostly raining (misty) for so many days I've lost count.

I HATE dark cloudy days, add in rain for more than one day and I'm in a major funk.

My house is dark anyway so I walk around with every light on in the house. Add to that the humidity level here in the house is crazy. Every time I get the AC guy out here he says, "Miss Annabelle, it's because you don't have the AC turned down low enough". Ugh!

If I turn it down lower than, say, 74, my arthritis kicks in and ...... well...it hurts.

Boo hoo! What's a person to do? I've always been one to hibernate when it's cloudy and rainy. I never wanted to leave the house ..... at all.

So, what did I do? I had my youngest daughter who loves dark, cloudy days. When she comes to visit she turns off all the lights! Where did she move? To Colorado where they have an unbelievable number of sunny days! Ha!

I was just visiting her. No humidity, sunny days, beautiful weather.

Perhaps I should move to Colorado. Naw! She'd move back to Va! She loves me. I love her. We both like where we live so I guess I'll just stay planted here.....

Now where that's @#$% sun?

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Lipstickdiva — Wed, 30 May 2018 15:36:05 GMT

I'm in Ohio and we are expecting remnants of Alberto later today, tomorrow and I think possibly Friday. They are calling for possible heavy thunderstorms later.

Saturday, some areas around here got so much rain, things were flooded and yards are still like swamps. DH and I were camping and we got about 45 minutes of moderate rain then the sun came out.

I mowed our backyard last night and the very back part of our yard was still very wet and that was with 2 days of 90+ temps and sun. The grass was so thick though I figured if I didn't just plow through it, it would never dry out back there.

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GSPgirl — Wed, 30 May 2018 15:42:31 GMT

I’m sorry for those stranded and the reporters who were killed, but I’m ok with rain since I just put in new landscaping.

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Allegheny — Wed, 30 May 2018 16:27:39 GMT

They (forecasters SW PA) have been telling us about possible rain since Friday of last week, but we haven't gotten any locally. Kind of hit & miss depending where you live here. Which is sort of unusual since Pittsburgh isn't known for sunny weather. After all this heat we could use some rain.

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Laura14 — Wed, 30 May 2018 16:40:47 GMT

@GSPgirl wrote:
I’m sorry for those stranded and the reporters who were killed, but I’m ok with rain since I just put in new landscaping.

@GSPgirl My lawn does look fantastic too even as long as it is. Two weeks of rain is great for the plants.

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Kachina624 — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:04:44 GMT

It seems strange to hear everyone talk about all the dreary, rainy weather when were sitting here in the Southwest in a state of severe drought and day after day of unrelenting sunshine. We had one overcast day over the week-end but it wasn't caused by clouds. It was smoke from a large wildfire in the Gila Wilderness near the Arizona State Line Southwest of Albuquerque.

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RedTop — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:45:28 GMT

According to the news at noon today, my area of southern West Virginia has seen 4 completely dry days in the month of May. I didn’t catch the verbal report on our rainfall amounts, but my husband thought it was over 15+ inches this month.

We are beyond saturated; several areas around me that have never flooded are isolated due to high water. Mountain sides have washed down blocking roads, and trees have uprooted on many backroads.

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Regal Bee — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:54:38 GMT

We had a few days of sunshine but it is pouring today and dark outside.

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gidgetgh — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:49:49 GMT

@Laura14 wrote:
High fived Noah and the animals at breakfast again this morning as they made another lap.

@Laura14- isn’t that the truth. It’s rained most of the month.

I was so looking forward to winter being over as I hate winter. We had like one day of spring. We went immediately into summer which is more than fine with me, but it’s rained every single day for weeks. Please make it stop, LOL.

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Laura14 — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:54:29 GMT

@gidgetgh wrote:
@Laura14 wrote:
High fived Noah and the animals at breakfast again this morning as they made another lap.

@Laura14- isn’t that the truth. It’s rained most of the month.

I was so looking forward to winter being over as I hate winter. We had like one day of spring. We went immediately into summer which is more than fine with me, but it’s rained every single day for weeks. Please make it stop, LOL.

@gidgetgh I know! I was just looking at our weather and we may have Friday to actually see this thing called the sun.

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151949 — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:59:36 GMT

All our landscape plants plus our potted flowers look fantastic. Apparently they prefer rain to sprinkler water. The oak in our backyard is growing daily.I swear the herbs are growing overnight. The flowers - petunias & geraniums are full & lush plants but no flowers because we need sun to get flowers.

The furniture on the lanai is filthy. Dirt gets on the screen & when it rains the rain pushes the dirt in. Everything needs scrubbed. i suspect that will be a whole day cleaning project out there if it ever stops raining.

And all the windows need cleaned. DH does the outside and I do the inside.

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shoekitty — Wed, 30 May 2018 23:37:07 GMT

I am in California, and it has been cold, with cloud cover all Spring. It did rain a lot, for us. Nothing like what the rest of the country has experienced though. My edamame soybeans are a bust, nothing is thriving...but the trees. For weeks it had been cooler, cloud cover , yesterday was sunny and 90 degrees. Last night, it was 46, this morning cloudy, breezy and cool. It lifted at 3 pm. I am a little sick of it. So, I cannot imagine the rain you all have been experiencing.

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GenXmuse — Wed, 30 May 2018 23:40:38 GMT

I love the rainy weather we’re having

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Lucky Charm — Wed, 30 May 2018 23:45:32 GMT

@shoekitty wrote:
I am in California, and it has been cold, with cloud cover all Spring. It did rain a lot, for us. Nothing like what the rest of the country has experienced though. My edamame soybeans are a bust, nothing is thriving...but the trees. For weeks it had been cooler, cloud cover , yesterday was sunny and 90 degrees. Last night, it was 46, this morning cloudy, breezy and cool. It lifted at 3 pm. I am a little sick of it. So, I cannot imagine the rain you all have been experiencing.

Saw Tom Jones the other night at The Greek in LA and he swore he thought he was in Wales.

My feet are ice cold at the very moment!

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FrostyBabe1 — Wed, 30 May 2018 23:51:58 GMT

The remnants of Alberto are pushing thru SW Michigan this evening. By now, it's just a lot of heavy rain, a few wind gusts and some thunder. The local weather people are beside themselves in their disappointment at the lack of severe weather.