Subj : "Why We Love Iowa" To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Tue Aug 13 2019 19:55:00 Hi Nancy! "Part 3" of the mega-packet from yesterday; "Part 2" if just counting today's replies. Figured I should upload just in case ==> don't want to loose my valuable words of wisdom! Shouldn't be any problems but don't want to find out the hard way. 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! NB> Could be.... LIS, I sort of like a good storm, just don't want the damage part of it. ....They had predicted some dangerous storms for yesterday later afternoon and all evening -- drizzled and light rain part of the evening but that was it. I didn't check the radar sites to see where the storm went. 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! NB> Exactly... :) If I'm going to be inconvenienced I'd like to be 'comfortably inconvenienced"; you an extra day at cabin.... for me ended up being a nice Hotel at the Vienna Airport. (Darn! Should have called Room Service for bon-bons! ). NB> Our family camping at Selkirk Shores State Park was in Oswego NB> County, so I was a little curious to see how much evidence of NB> their flooding might be seen... things were dry pretty much when NB> we got there, but there were some areas that showed some evidence NB> of things having flooded... the campgrounds are right at the edge NB> of Lake Ontario, but elevated a fair amount, so not too prone to NB> flooding.... We had a lot of rain on Wednesday, which made lots NB> of puddles around that lasted a day or so... So the grounds were high enough to avoid being flooded -- good! 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! NB> And at least things weren't really flooding.... :) Right: more 'pooling'. Just large puddles: step in and foot woul dhave been soaked but not the ankle. OTOH all that pooled water does look impressive! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... When your PC says "You have mail," don't go to the company mail room. --- 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) .