# \[Expletive Deleted\] You, The Rain **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685 "2009-07-02T12:47:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/1 "2009-07-02T12:47:27Z")
I started a light-hearted thread on this a week or fifty ago, but it’s not funny anymore. I’ve got a beach vacation coming up in four weeks, and it looks like the sucky weather isn’t going away any time during the Obama administration. Find me the asshole responsible so I can kick the ever loving shit out of him. I swam to work this morning. I’m considering having my umbrella surgically attached. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/2 "2009-07-02T13:03:00Z")
Agreed, neighbor. My son asked me this morning, “How can it be a rainy day again?” I had no answer for him. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/3 "2009-07-02T13:04:15Z")
Three or four weeks straight here, with a break of only a day or two. Unbelievable. Yesterday it poured buckets and there was flooding everywhere. I only had to walk to my car, and I had an umbrella and the bottom of my skirt was still soaked. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/4 "2009-07-02T13:09:19Z")
What sucks is that on the longest days of the year, when we were getting the brightest sunshine of the year, I had to turn lights on in the middle of the day. It’s 9:08am, and the sky is black. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/5 "2009-07-02T13:15:48Z")
Feel free to send some to the Houston area if you want. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/6 "2009-07-02T13:17:46Z")
Take it! Take it all! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/7 "2009-07-02T13:32:17Z")
For some reason, DC weather seems to be really good when in other parts of the country it’s really bad. We’ve been having partly cloudy, 80s, not terribly humid weather with scattered afternoon showers for the past few days. Not bad, but of course, since it’s a holiday weekend and I want to be outside, I anticipate that regardless of the forecast, it will rain like a cow pissing on a flat rock the.whole.freaking.time. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/8 "2009-07-02T13:38:12Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I started a light-hearted thread on this a week or fifty ago, but it’s not funny anymore. I’ve got a beach vacation coming up in four weeks, and it looks like the sucky weather isn’t going away any time during the Obama administration. Find me the asshole responsible so I can kick the ever loving shit out of him. > > I swam to work this morning. I’m considering having my umbrella surgically attached. San Antonio is undergoing a drought. Clear, blue skies as far as one can see, for days on end. Sucks to be y’all. 😛 > [@](#): > > If the rain comes they run and hide their heads. > They might as well be dead. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/9 "2009-07-02T13:45:01Z")
Seriously, what the fuck is going on around here? When did Boston get it’s very own monsoon season? It’s been raining forfuckingever, and if I recall correctly, even at his pissiest, God had a forty day limit. Everything is damp, my sugar is clumpy, my nail polish won’t dry, and right now it’s dark as night, thundering enough that my cats are freaking out, and worst of all, 59 fucking degrees. I’m starting to get very, very cranky. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/10 "2009-07-02T13:51:21Z")
Moved from The BBQ Pit to Mundane Pointless Things I Must Share. \*\* Gfactor\*\* Pit Moderator ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/11 "2009-07-02T13:52:29Z")
No rain, no rainbows. ::swims away at thirty Phelps:: ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/12 "2009-07-02T13:53:40Z")
Hey we’ll have some, it hasn’t rained here in yonks. Just day after day of blistering heat 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/13 "2009-07-02T13:54:17Z")
Up here in the rainy Pacific Northwest we’re expecting highs to get into the 80s and sunny skies. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/14 "2009-07-02T13:57:54Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Everything is damp, my sugar is clumpy, my nail polish won’t dry, In the “summer” of 2000, the last time there was no summer, I couldn’t even write myself a note. The pen would just tear the paper. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/15 "2009-07-02T14:01:05Z")
Want a dry vacation? I don’t get around to the Atacama Desert much. If you like, I can recommend a travel agent. In the meantime, enjoy being soggy. And bite me. Love, **The Rain** ---
**Author:** ![otorophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ab097/32.png) [@otorophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otorophile)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/16 "2009-07-02T14:06:18Z")
Yeah, Boston pretty much sucks right now. And it’s lasting at least through the weekend. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/17 "2009-07-02T14:11:02Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > In the “summer” of 2000, the last time there was no summer, I couldn’t even write myself a note. The pen would just tear the paper. Oh, I remember that “summer”. It didn’t really rain, and it wasn’t warm (I don’t think the temperature went much above 70 degrees), it was just 837% humidity. For weeks. Many, many weeks. Everything was damp, all the time. Everyone looked like hell. Smells took on solid form. It was hideous. For that matter, it rained most of last June, I think. I remember joking with my friend that his daughter’s softball season was going to run into October with all the delays. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/18 "2009-07-02T14:39:34Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Oh, I remember that “summer”. It didn’t really rain, and it wasn’t warm (I don’t think the temperature went much above 70 degrees), it was just 837% humidity. I thought July was warm and sunny. I spent a lot of nights and weekends in the office wishing I was out enjoying the weather. But yeah, the humidity often reached 837%. I finally got some time off on Labor Day weekend. The weather was like this. ---
**Author:** ![JFLuvly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@JFLuvly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JFLuvly)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/19 "2009-07-02T14:46:32Z")
Don’t feel bad, not only has there been rain for the last 2 or 3 weeks ( I lost count ), I had to light a fire in the woodstove in the garage yesterday so I could work on the truck. It was a balmy + 11 C! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685/20 "2009-07-02T14:53:02Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I started a light-hearted thread on this a week or fifty ago, but it’s not funny anymore. I’ve got a beach vacation coming up in four weeks, and it looks like the sucky weather isn’t going away any time during the Obama administration. Find me the asshole responsible so I can kick the ever loving shit out of him. > > I swam to work this morning. I’m considering having my umbrella surgically attached. My apartment had a bit of a leak over the front door. My landlord had the roof redone a couple months ago, but some of the wall needs replacing as well. They took the siding off, and were supposed to finish the rest while I was on vacation last week. Still isn’t done. **lorene**! Long time, no read; hope you’re well. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expletive-deleted-you-the-rain/501685.md?page=2)