Rain, Rain – Enough Already!!!
Yesterday we reached 9¼ inches of rain for August, twice the normal average for the entire month, but not so bad when there have been areas in Louisiana that have gotten that much in a day. This isn’t a tropical storm, but a low pressure system that keeps drifting along the northern Gulf Coast.
Louisiana is in a state of emergency with hundreds of people having to be rescued. The water flows through the native white quartz sand we have over here. The only people who get flooded along the Florida coast are those who have been serious about growing grass. You can’t convince them it’s a message to stop with the grass.
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Yeah. I read about Louisiana. They can’t catch a break. 🙁
We’ve had pretty much non-stop rain for a few Months now. Just had two sunny days amazingly! Must be a miracle… keep praying fools! 😉 LOL
Kryten42, please pray in the direction of California, Southern California in particular. We were just allowed to expand our rationed garden watering to three days rather than two, but even so, trees are dying, lawns are dead, and our San Gabriel mountains are completely flammable. Maybe we can get the oil companies to stop trying to push the Keystone and make a water pipeline sideways across the Rockies. We’ll happily take your surplus!
Louisiana is fairly soggy in normal times, but the heavy rain has been spreading up the rivers and dumping in the water sheds. Louisiana is going to be under water for a while yet and it’s August, not April.
Damn straight, Ellroon. I’ve been complaining about this shift for years. Hell, we can’t even get them to build a pipeline to run down to Central Florida to flush the Everglades. You don’t need new rights-of-way, just run along the Interstates. I-10 runs from Jacksonville to Santa Monica, about 2400 miles, and you could pick up flood overflow from the other rivers along the way.