# Rain, rain and more frigging rain
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 20, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550 "2007-07-20T16:24:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/21 "2007-07-20T21:46:42Z")
It absolutely bucketted down here for most of the day. Stopped about 5 hours ago.
I wonder if all the rain we’ve had means there’s going to be an effect on the crops this year?
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/22 "2007-07-20T21:49:53Z")
So YOU’RE the one who hogged all the rain this year. We went 6 weeks without a drop. My water bill for one month: $150, and I only watered the garden and trees, not the grass.
We got a great thunderstorm last night. And there was much rejoicing.
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### Author:  [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/23 "2007-07-21T08:46:22Z")
Saturday morning…still raining. ☹
That is all
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### Author:  [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/24 "2007-07-21T09:00:00Z")
[QUOTE=chowder]
Saturday morning…still raining. ☹
That is all
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And very cold. 12 degrees according to the read-out on my car.
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### Author:  [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/25 "2007-07-21T09:07:07Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz]
It absolutely bucketted down here for most of the day.
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Lucky you don’t live in [Texas](http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/local/06/28/0628flood.html) my friend. Our buckets are way bigger than yours 😛
> [@](#):
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> A rare confluence of weather phenomena soaked the Hill Country on Wednesday, leading to a storm that in places dumped nearly eight months’ worth of rain over **eight hours**. The **19 inches of rain** that fell beginning Tuesday night on Marble Falls happens about once every 500 years, said Bob Rose, a meteorologist with the Lower Colorado River Authority.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/26 "2007-07-21T09:10:56Z")
It’s the weather that causes it.
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### Author:  [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/27 "2007-07-21T09:52:46Z")
[QUOTE=Rayne Man]
And very cold. 12 degrees according to the read-out on my car.
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That ain’t cold! That’s my comfortable room temperature, is that. Anything approaching 20 degrees and I’m miserable, get to the 30s and I want to top missen.
Loving this Summer so far.
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### Author:  [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/28 "2007-07-21T10:17:38Z")
Oh c’mon. It rains every day in England. For ten minutes. Then it hails. Then it’s beautiful. Then it rain again. And people wonder why Englishmen talk about the weather so much.
But it rarly snows and it hardly ever gets to the 99 temp we’re having here. So stop your bitching.
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### Author:  [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/29 "2007-07-21T10:27:02Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir]
Oh c’mon. It rains every day in England. For ten minutes. Then it hails. Then it’s beautiful. Then it rain again. And people wonder why Englishmen talk about the weather so much.
But it rarly snows and it hardly ever gets to the 99 temp we’re having here. So stop your bitching.
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Not really, we didn’t have any rain for the whole of April and most of May.
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### Author:  [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/30 "2007-07-21T10:37:41Z")
I can make it rain wherever I vacation.
I am responsible for the rain/mist in the London area mid-August of last year. Oppressive humidity with overcast skies and occasional showers? That’s me. Sorry.
I went to Phoenix in April 2004 and it poured for two days.
I’m not at fault in this one though. I’m nowhere near London. Yet.
(Heh.)
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### Author:  [@Barrington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrington)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/31 "2007-07-21T11:31:20Z")
[QUOTE=Dominic Mulligan]
Still, we should consider ourselves lucky we don’t live in the neighbouring county, across the Pennines. Haven’t they heard of drains? There’s always been a rumour that Yorkshire’s the third world, but :eek:
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I’m in Hull, where the flooding was especially widespread - I wasn’t personally affected, but I know people who were.
The drainage system in low-lying areas of the city was supplemented a few years ago by high-volume pumps that could drain millions of gallons an hour down into the Humber estuary. The pumps are electrically powered. The substation that powers the pumps was below the flood level and became submerged. The pumps ceased to function. Clever, eh? :smack:
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### Author:  [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/32 "2007-07-21T11:35:07Z")
[QUOTE=Rayne Man]
As a change from having a week’s holiday in some far-flung part of Southern Europe, this year we decided to rent a cottage in the Peak District. The trip starts tomorrow. Do you think we have made a wise decision ? At least if it is too wet it’s not too far to come home.
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Yes; you’re up high when the floods strike…
Better overcast and rain than that great flaming Yellow Face that makes me burn at the slightest provocation. I had to sell my air-conditioned car in March and wasn’t looking forward to a heatwave.
I’d rather have the rain spread over time rather than being dumped on us in 15-minute bursts though. The groundwater levels in the SE are still fairly dodgy from a string of dry winters, and it needs steady rain to replenish - not these downpours.
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### Author:  [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/33 "2007-07-21T11:58:16Z")
[QUOTE=Kal]
That ain’t cold! That’s my comfortable room temperature, is that. Anything approaching 20 degrees and I’m miserable, get to the 30s and I want to top missen.
Loving this Summer so far.
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Methinks there be summat oop wi’ thee laddie.
Go on, top thissen, ah dares thi’ 😃
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### Author:  [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/34 "2007-07-21T12:17:11Z")
Meh. Weather here is nice today (as usual). Temperature’s only expected to reach 41[sup]o[/sup]C (106[sup]o[/sup]F)!
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/35 "2007-07-21T12:35:22Z")
Please send rain in a southeasterly direction. Please. Please?
So very…very…hot. need…help…
…help!
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### Author:  [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/36 "2007-07-21T15:14:33Z")
[QUOTE=Rayne Man]
Not really, we didn’t have any rain for the whole of April and most of May.
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You probably looked away for a minute.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/37 "2007-07-21T15:24:23Z")
BBC news article, follow links to pics: [BBC NEWS | UK | Flood lessons 'must be learned'](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6910086.stm)
This is seriously getting beyond a joke. Some places had over 5 inches of rain yesterday. In my own back garden I recorded three and a half inches in about 9 hours. Large parts of the village under water, I went out and took some pics yesterday after the sun came out briefly!
[http://i8.tinypic.com/6800vtu.jpg](http://i8.tinypic.com/6800vtu.jpg) - see the volume of water coming off the field…
[http://i7.tinypic.com/61lwu3s.jpg](http://i7.tinypic.com/61lwu3s.jpg) - and along the road
[http://i11.tinypic.com/4vpzpg2.jpg](http://i11.tinypic.com/4vpzpg2.jpg) - fortunately I live quite a way up the hill from here… this tranquil river is actually a road.
And here’s a short [video](http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=5y7fbdt) I took while riding my bike down the river…er, road.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/38 "2007-07-21T15:33:21Z")
From **Colophon’s** BBC link above:
> [@](#):
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> After spending the night in his car on the M5, Simon Clarke said there was no anger among motorists but it was “not nice” because there were no facilities.
Ah, got to love the stiff upper lip.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/39 "2007-07-21T16:32:39Z")
And after a lovely morning, it’s been pissing down again.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-and-more-frigging-rain/412550/40 "2007-07-21T17:00:49Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon]
And here’s a short [video](http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=5y7fbdt) I took while riding my bike down the river…er, road.
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Yike!
There’s something wrong with the video, though: reflecting sparkles as if there was light shining on the water from above. What gives?
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