Subj : Re: "Why We Love Iowa" To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Sat Jul 27 2019 17:05:40 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 02-Jul-2019 15:28 <=- Replying 1:25p on 27 July, from home... ;) BM>> Possibly far enough away the effect was minimal. LIS didn't smell BM>> anything this year but a couple/few years ago pretty sure I did, and BM>> wasn't just a local fire pit smoldering. NB>> Just as well... Whether or not one did smell it would likely NB>> depend on things like the direction of the wind, and how dense NB>> the smoke being generated was in the first place.... BM> And how sensitive a sniffer one has! That, too... ;) BM>> The TV meteorologists on the four local stations (studios withing five BM>> miles of the house) have all warned of some potentially dangerous BM>> storms but the good news is no damage here. Bad news is there have BM>> been houses with trees suddenly on their roofs. Tonight is predicted a BM>> storm for just south of the area with up to 60 MPH winds and BM>> quarter-sized hail. NB>> You are getting some more major storms than we get... not that I'm at NB>> all jealous, you understand... ;) BM> I think they're all tired out by the time they get to your BM> neighbourhood! Could be.... NB>> The day I was due to come home from the Pond, we had a monster storm NB>> up there, but only rain-wise, and a bit of wind.... I sheltered in NB>> place and came home the next day.... Rochester didn't have as much NB>> rain as we had up there.... but apparently Oswego County did... they NB>> closed ALL the roads in the county due to flash flooding... Any NB>> route I take home from the Pond goes through Oswego County at some NB>> point.... BM> So may as well stay somewhere comfortable! Exactly... :) Our family camping at Selkirk Shores State Park was in Oswego County, so I was a little curious to see how much evidence of their flooding might be seen... things were dry pretty much when we got there, but there were some areas that showed some evidence of things having flooded... the campgrounds are right at the edge of Lake Ontario, but elevated a fair amount, so not too prone to flooding.... We had a lot of rain on Wednesday, which made lots of puddles around that lasted a day or so... 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".... BM>> Yes, the ozone-activated rain water releases nutrients in the soil -- BM>> makes the plants happy! NB>> Yup... :) BM> The last storm late Sunday afternoon definitely wasn't a fizzle! LIS BM> we were out on the porch for a while experiencing the rain. A small BM> area in one of the garden areas was pooling; possibly others but hard BM> to see. At least the gutters weren't clogged! And at least things weren't really flooding.... :) ttyl neb .... "I think not" said Descartes, and promptly disappeared. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .