Hows everyone doing in the rain?

i think its supposed to clear up here for the weekend.

Local flooding this morning. More than Irene. Mostly cleared by now. Rain is letting up a little bit.

Rain..would be nice! We are waking up to ash falls and smoke visibility problems. Thought we would get some rain but a cold front punched the tropical depression and it stopped 20 miles away with its rain. At least it finally dropped below 100 degrees!

Bruce in East Texas

The Susquehanna is still rising rising rising. We left work early today because the roads leading to the brewery are quite low-lying, and we were worried about getting stuck there. PP&L turned off the power, so we just kept stacking full pallets of beer on the racks and on stacks of pallets, and moving everything off of the floors. If the river gets as high as they say it will, the building will have almost a foot of water in it

The house I am in now (my apartment is in a big old house divided into four apartments) is fine, we're at the top of a hill, quite a distance from the river. The basement isn't even wet yet. So at least my personal belongings aren't in danger...just the building where I make my livelihood. Hope we have insurance.

Would someone tell Texas to quit praying for rain. God's aim seems to be off.

We're heading to the Outer Banks next week, so I hope it lets up soon on the east coast.

JoeTR6 wrote: Would someone tell Texas to quit praying for rain. God's aim seems to be off. We're heading to the Outer Banks next week, so I hope it lets up soon on the east coast.

I will trade some 100+ degree weather and a few wildfires for some of that rain.

1/2 of our city is inaccessible. Parts of major highways are shut down. It's only going to get worse.

Here in the DC area we've had more rain in any given day since Monday evening than Irene dumped in it's entirety. 5" today, another 2" tonight. And it's rained really hard continuously all of today. Unrelenting.

We've only been in this house since February and this is the acid test. Both sump pump pits are filling slowly and the pumps are only cycling every 15-20 minutes for 30 seconds. Back yard has a nice little river which I suppose is supposed to be be there. Basement is, dare I say it, dry.

The previous owners heirs had the whole yard regraded 1-1/2' higher around the house and underground downspout extensions that discharge 10' from the house installed. It all works fine.

At our old place I had 10 years of middle-of-the-night rainsuit+Wellies bailing/diverting/tranching/sandbagging excursions. Uggh.

My family lives along the Susque in the area between Binghampton, N.Y. and Wilkes Barre, Pa. (Haven't heard form anyone in weeks.) Fortunately, my folks moved from an area that I'm sure would be under a few feet of water right now, to a house on top of a hill. Still, with a lot of rain, no guarantee their basement won't flood. My sister lives at the bottom of a long hill, I'm hoping her basement/house foundation are okay. Brother is a firefighter in Philly, I would guess he's getting run ragged by folks who need basements pumped out, and will remain so for another week or so.

Living in "The Sunshine State", myself, I'm amazed that we have managed to avoid any big storms...so far. But this morning woke up to smoke in the sky...AGAIN. Forests in the area have been burning on and off all summer.

In SoFla, we are missing most of the effects of the big storms. But this is rainy season, and it rains every afternoon and every night. Got a good thunderstorm this afternoon, had to disconnect all the computer equipment for fear of a hit. Yes, we have UPS, etc., but a direct hit will fry everything.

cwh wrote: In SoFla, we are missing most of the effects of the big storms. But this is rainy season, and it rains every afternoon and every night. Got a good thunderstorm this afternoon, had to disconnect all the computer equipment for fear of a hit. Yes, we have UPS, etc., but a direct hit will fry everything.

Central FL...slight drizzle.