To all Dopers in the Ohio River Valley, Pennsylvania, the northeastern U.S., and especially those in the Tri-State Metro New York area.
I’m responsible for the really crappy weather we’ve been having this week.
See, I bought a really nifty, extra large, professional-style charcoal grill on Saturday.
I assembled it on Sunday.
It started in with all this rain and thunderstorms and floods on Monday.
I’m really sorry, guys.
Honest.
Maybe if you washed your car, it would stop the rain. You know, like how two negatives equals a positive?
Just be sure to multiply them. If you stick an addition sign in there, you might want to get typhoon insurance.
Nah, to stop rain you need to disconnect your sprinkler system and let your grass die.
It sounds beautiful(the grill sigh) she says with awe and a tinge of jealousy. That’s the thing I miss most about not having a backyard.
Take an umbrella with you everywhere you go. That’ll keep it from raining.
Well, it’s not in the backyard. It’s in the shed, since I didn’t want it rusting before I even got a chance to use it!
In Australia you stop rain by planting crops.
Could you come visit us in the Southwest and bring your Magic Rainmaking Grill? Thanks.
Yes, some insurance would be nice. Very thoughtful of you.
I’m glad you posted this, DaveWOO, because fizzy’s mother has been on me … er, no … she’s been getting cabin fever lately … no, not that … ok. She likes to do yardwork (I don’t think you can reasonably skew that one…) on the weekends. Since I’ve been down here (in the South of Virginia), more often than not it’s rained on the weekend.
Now that I know the actual source of this rain I can just direct her annoyed thoughts at you. So if you start hearing the voice of an annoyed Southern woman in your head, it isn’t all in your head. Or something.
Just send that grill to Amsterdam, Dave. It’s raining anyway, over here. Everybody always sends their rainmaking grills here. We can handle one extra.
Aww, I thought I was the only one with the mutant power of rainmaking.
I once made it rain in Vegas, for a week!
I thought for sure that this week’s weather was due to me having the week off. 
No problemo, Dave.
I caused the Nothridge quake in '94 by alphabetizing my CD collection.
Gee, 'punha, all this time I thought it was my mother. 
ah HA! I always knew that being too organized was a dangerous thing!
spooje! IT WAS YOU! You scared the CRAP outta me! That wasn’t nice at all!
You should have seen the mess in the kitchen…shudder…
Shame on you, spooje! It’s not NICE to scare innocent people like me with earthquakes just because you had a fit of organization! (I assume every CD ended up on the floor in an newly-unalphabetized pile?)
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The funniest thing I saw after Northridge was the Book Star store on Wilshire in Santa Monica the next day – through what few windows remained, you could see every book in the store piled about four feet deep in the aisles. Although I hear it took them two months to reshelve 650,000 books at the UCLA library…
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Seems I have to take some of the blame for the rains in Ohio over the last month or so. My wife programmed our sprinklers to run every day while we were on vacation. Last summer we came back to burned out grass. This summer there are things growing in the yard that I can’t even identify. Many seem to be subtropical and perhaps carnivorous. Nothing starts a rainy spell like setting your sprinkler to autopilot and then leaving for an extended period. Unless perhaps it’s camping in a nearby area. That can cure the stubbornest drought.