Subj : "Why We Love Iowa" To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sat Jun 22 2019 11:37:00 Hi Nancy! BM>>> Which it does! And sort of speaking of wind and the like, this BM>>> morning's news said we're going to get some of the smoke from the BM>>> Canadian wildfires and the meteorologist said things were slightly BM>>> hazy because of them. BM>> haven't smelt anything but last year (two years ago?) occasinally a BM>> faint smokiness when outside. At time the sky looks a gray-overcast BM>> but not sure if that's the effect of the smoke or just the way the BM>> clouds look. NB>> Hard to say.... BM> Well, yes, did a bit of Googling and appears the smoke from the BM> Canadian wildfires is mostly gone from this part of the country -- BM> Northeast still has some lingering. So any grayness out there is water BM> vapor. NB> Most likely, anyway... Far as I know, we didn't have any here... NB> not that I've heard of... Possibly far enough away the effect was minimal. LIS didn't smell anything this year but a couple/few years ago pretty sure I did, and wasn't just a local fire pit smoldering. BM> Last night was monitoring a storm system coming in: watched some BM> rather dark clouds coming in. Then a very brief sound of heavier rain BM> on the air conditioner -- almost reminded me of someone spilling water BM> from a bucket. Window on the far side of the did get rained upon -- BM> must have been a bit of a breeze change so the rain hit my side. NB> An interesting storm... :) Even if it was just a flash in the NB> pan... :) The TV meteorologists on the four local stations (studios withing five miles of the house) have all warned of some potentially dangerous storms but the good news is no damage here. Bad news is there have been houses with trees suddenly on their roofs. Tonight is predicted a storm for just south of the area with up to 60 MPH winds and quarter-sized hail. BM> Storm was sort of a fizzle: just over a tenth of an inch of rain in BM> the rain guage. Plants probably like the 'real' water better than BM> what we gave them from the tap earlier a few hours earlier! NB> Probably... :) Often it is absorbed easier and better into the NB> soil... and probably has a different set of "chemicals".... Yes, the ozone-activated rain water releases nutrients in the soil -- makes the plants happy! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... New Latin: "E pluribus septum." (Multiple nose piercings.) --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .