After what seems to be an awful lot of gallivanting (as many of my blogging buddies are saying), I needed a quieter, easier day with maybe no where to go. So, it was sort of nice, in a relief sort of a way, that we had a rainy day. And, there is something that this summer hasn't really had, and that is rain. So, I think the weather was a relief to the grass, flowers, trees, and reservoirs, too.
By mid-day, the rain was coming down a bit harder. I took a look out of my livingroom window and here's what things looked like.
Yeah, it was raining, that's for sure. I decided to take the camera out onto the porch with me and take this picture from outside of the house.
Things were pretty wet. I decided right then and there that I would not be gallivanting anywhere for the entire day.
I took this one last picture just before going back inside to get myself a cup of tea and tend to some household chores (the ones I had been neglecting). You can see how the rain drops were hitting the surface of the water hard enough to look like they were bouncing...that's all those little white spots in the puddle. In the foreground is the sidewalk that is right up in front of my porch. As you can see, it has turned into a little rippling river. Between the rain and the sidewalk run-off, you can see where the road is beginning to flood. Localized street flooding is common here, but this was pretty much as bad as it got on this day.
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Rain can be usefull sometimes, but..... I almost always hate it.
As long as the rain isn't icy cold or coming down so hard that it's painful or drenching like from buckets being poured, I don't mind summer showers or occasional rainy days. I will even enjoy walking in a nice rain, splashing in puddles as I go along.
Now that is a typical British summer! The sun shines here as often as you have rain. I hope you enjoyed your day indoors.
There's a reason why they called this area New ENGLAND. It had more to do than with just the Pilgrims coming here. It had an awful lot to do with the look and the weather.
NICE, we have 20 drops the other day. LOL, Monsoons will be here in a few..phew!
In the meantime I LOVE THE CLOUDS!!!
20 drops, eh? That's what we call a "spit of rain"...we can have entire days like that, all cloudy and looking rather threatening, but maybe only getting spit on 1-20 times in the entire day.
Wish we had some of that here. It is getting very hot and very dry.
Joan, so sorry. Now that they've got this reply feature working, I've ceased to be working! LOL In my typical, absent-minded fashion, I replied as a comment, so my reply that should have been here is sitting as a comment somewhere down there.
You are definitely quite dryer there and hotter, I should add. Being near the water can help keep temps a little cooler, but humidity can get uncomfortably high, making us feel way too sticky. We'll have a lot of nice summer days mixed in and some real rainy days mixed in, so we even have some variety in the summer.
The storm you experience dropped four inches of rain in Northwest Ohio. We have flood warnings all over, and one of the biggest floods is in my apartment building parking lot, which has more than six inches of water in it!! Staying inside cozy and dry is the best idea!
The rain that I wrote about (and came from your area earlier) turned into a bit of a storm afterward. A man fishing off the shore here in Bristol was struck by lightning, was still alive and rushed to the hospital, but died later on. There were areas of the state where the storm hit harder, dropping lots of rain and hail and gusting through will some pretty strong winds.
Wow, you guys definitely got more rain than we did.
AJ
Yeah, but even we didn't get it too bad compared to some areas. There were parts of the state hit pretty hard and heavy, according to the news and weather reports we saw.
Wow! It definitely rained a lot harter there!
AJ