Subj : Wegman's To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Jul 03 2019 16:03:00 Hi Nancy! We'll see goofy this set of messages comes out! Awakend several times last night by loud thunder - and it takes a bit to wake me up once I fall asleep! Rain started as I was getting ready for bed and probably continued on and off through the night and continues currently. Looks like we got almost another three inches. Thought heard the sump pump. Bad news is rain and thunderstorms might continue through tonight, and tonight is the Red White and Boom event for Davenport's Fourth of July celebration. Bettendorf holds their festivities on the 4th. BM>>> Yes, it does rain, but normally not for essentially two-plus months BM>>> constant. Have downspout extensions to carry the water further from BM>>> the house, had one added to the sump pump's drain. Works fine for BM>>> normal conditions and generally pretty good for those more extreme BM>>> conditions. NB>>> Works well enough, then.... :) BM>> Yes. No legal way to run the water off the property. The yard has BM>> been soggy before, will be soggy again; just deal with it. At least BM>> the house is on a slight rise as opposed to a slight depression! NB>> That is a good thing... :) BM> And the water has stopped seeping in to the basement -- well, the BM> channels around the periphery and into the sump pit; the yard has BM> dried out -- mostly as still damp from the rain. NB> Progress, for sure.... :) Well, it had stopped seeping into the basement and was drying out! (Opening comment.) BM> The Mississippi is finally back below flood stage after 96 days (!) BM> -- mathematically that's 26%, or just over a quarter of the year! NB> Just crazy.... But very good that finally it is below flood NB> stage finally... :) Yes; the recent downpours do raise the river levels but not back over flood stages. Still a lot of water in the ground: Duck Creek is a local major tributary and it is still running very high. It did not flood like it did in past years; there was some work done to make the flow less restricted. BM>>>> Suppose something to do with the change in charge levels in the cloud. NB>>>> Or perhaps with how much moisture was caught in the passing cloud NB>>>> that was ready to come out.... or both.... ;) BM>>> Possibly. I would guess a correlation between charges of the water BM>>> molecules -- lower the charge differentials with a lightening BM>>> discharge, the rain molecules aren't able to 'hold on' to each other, BM>>> gravity wins and rain falls! NB>>> Could be.... I'll admit I've never thought of it quite that way.... BM>> I'm not sure how accurate it is but seems to follow the Millikan Oil BM>> Drop Experiment: charged particals suspended in an electric field. NB>> And would that also apply to rain without any thunder NB>> accompaniment...? BM> My guess is yes, though also have gravity involved in there somehow. NB> I only vaguely remember my early schooling on such things... been NB> a long time ago... I got interested in the 'Millikan Oil Drop Experiment' somehow when I was probably in Junior High, maybe late elementary school. Have a book (wonder if packed away in a box in NH?) which explains it, plus how to build one's own. Was going to. BM> ...Well, looked up 'Thundersnow' in Wikipedia, mainly because that BM> source generally doens't get overly technical in this sort of topic. BM> The only thing I found relative to electrical charges was at the very BM> end: BM> Finally, there is a greater likelihood that thundersnow lightning BM> will have a positive polarity, which is associated with a greater BM> destructive potential than the more common negatively-charged BM> lightning. BM> I was looking for some correlation between lightening and release of BM> the snow, which in warmer months would be rain. NB> But it looks like there might not really be a correlation, since NB> it's different polarities... and thundersnow is very rare.... NB> More often, we just get snow.... just like we often just get rain NB> (even very heavy rain) without any thunder/lightning.... :) True. Maybe when Daryl gets back he'll explain it to us. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Errors have occurred. We won't tell you where or why. Lazy programmers. --- 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) .