This must be what living in a rain forest is like

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Its looking like I can start using a boat to get to and from the shop and fish from my front porch here in Okie territory. No one can keep up with the grass its growing so fast around here. Last three times I've cut it I had to do it while it was still wet. I haven't had to water the garden once all season, and its rained everyday in recent memory. I can't tell you how wet it is here.

I'm sick of the rain. Really. Everyday without end it rains here! Last year we had none and I lost my favorite oak tree thanks to the drought and this year its made up for that and then some. Go figure.

But there is some good from it. My neighbor has one of those dogs that has always had to be drugged whenever a thunder storm rolled through. Its thundered so much this summer that the dog doesn't even react to it now. Guess he has been conditioned enough to just get used to it or shake all the time. :confused:

And the other good thing is that I know my roof tar repairs have held up in my shop. All them trips to the rafters paid off after all. :D


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Sorry to hear that, Steve! Here in Florida we need rain!! Me, I love the sound of rain specially at night. Yeah, too much is not a good thing !
 
This is the newest record in Oklahoma City that for the last 17 days they have had recordable moisture. Last record was 15 days in 1936 and the most days since they started keeping records 110 years ago. Save the boats!!!!!
 
Steve,

That bites. I'm also sorry to hear that. We need rain where I'm at. We're having sort of a drought. I have to water stuff every day. My grass is getting brown even though I'm watering it for a couple hours every other day.
 
My father-in-law said the same thing about them in Tenn. not getting any rain either. Mother nature just does her own thing regardless of our predictions you know. I've seen it turn from a bright sunny day to a wall cloud the size of Manhatten in no time here in Oklahoma catching everyone off guard. No warnings, nothing. Almost like she messes with the Doppler folks on purpose. Guess thats why the Natives call em 'Dust Devils' with talk of em being disembodied spirits messing with them based one what I was told. Kind of neat stories really. I used to watch dust devils form off in the distance when we lived in Arizona and my native friends there would always caution me not to look at them or think about them or they'd turn and come after me. Whats weird is that several times that happened spooking all of us out. Now that was strange!

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Yep. I can relate. Half my driveway has washed out down the road into the neighbors swamp land of a yard, and for many days I've had what I've jokingly referred to as the 'Rice River' running from my back yard to my front.

Clear out back just in front of the shop the O'Reilly auto parts store has their elevated paved lot where their idea of proper runoff water control, sanctioned by the city is to channel it straight into my back yard. Right at the property line where my fence is there is a water fall as it leaves their property to enter into mine where it has overrun my burm and flooded my shop for the last 30 days running.

Still I don't have it as bad as some of my neighbors both here and in other communities nearby who have had to actually move out of their houses when the sewer started to back up into their homes or when they were flooded out because of where they lived in relation to the river basin.

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That really sucks, sorry to hear that. Here in Denison, right next to Lake Texoma its not so bad. But the ground is saturated so any little bit of rain goes straight to the gutters. Its really bad farther south west of us in Gainsville. They are flooded out under a couple of feet of rain. Their whole down town in a lake. Its been flooded for a week or two. FEMA should be right on time in two weeks, lol.
Lake Texoma is set to run over the spill way tomorrow at 9. Thats 644 foot I think. Third time in history.
 
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