The weather here in the DMV orally pleasures various reproductive organs.

[Slash1972]

@RTFirefly

My yard has pretty good drainage, but despite that, the ground in my yard has the consistency of a sponge that can’t absorb another drop of water. In 20 years of living in this house, I’ve never seen the ground like this, to the best of my memory. I don’t think it was even like this after Isabel in 2003.

And we’re on tap to get a bunch more rain even before whatever contribution Florence makes to our weather.

Sure. But the OP is not complaining about his yard. He is complaining about it raining so he can’t go outside and exercise.

[RTFirefly]

@Slash1972

Sure. But the OP is not complaining about his yard. He is complaining about it raining so he can’t go outside and exercise.

And does going out and exercising necessarily mean on a paved surface? It doesn’t usually mean that for me and the Firebug.

[Slash1972]

@RTFirefly

And does going out and exercising necessarily mean on a paved surface? It doesn’t usually mean that for me and the Firebug.

Not sure. I gave up exercising when I retired from the AF

But yeah, it rained so much he couldn’t exercise in his water-soaked yard. I’ll go with it.

Damn you rain!!!

[AHunter3]

Nothing to say aside from a salute to the thread title.

[Toxgoddess]

Except he says it like it’s a bad thing!

[TruCelt]

OMG the weather. I feel like I’ve been kidnapped by Seattle! Four straight days of rain, and the storm isn’t even due here until Friday!

Grump, gripe, grumble, growl!

@Monty

DC, Maryland, Virginia? When I lived near DC, it was called “The Tri-State Area”. Anyway, here is a fun entry on the Wiki for tri-state areas in the US.

@svd678

In the old days there used to be farm reports from the DelMarVa peninsula. It seemed a euphonious expression with a definite meaning.

Oh Lord, this again? As a lifelong Northern Virginia resident, let me set y’all straight.

Acceptable:
Near DC (this is the primary go-to for all actual residents)
DC region (this goes right up to Baldimer, so a little wider catchment)
DC Metro (rarely used in such a way as to be confused with the subway system)
Washington
Washington Metropolitan Area (for newscasters, mainly)
NCR (allowed only if both people are wearing ID badges with this designation)

Not Acceptable:
DMV (Seriously? The most hated of all government bureaucracies? No!)
DelMarVa (This applies to the peninsula only, never to the city or suburbs. DelMarVa = beach)
Tri-State-Area (That’s up North, where the Sopranos dump the corpses)

@digs

DMV? Really?
Hope that’s an acronym that doesn’t catch on.

“You live in the CIA? I live near you, in the FBI. (Fredricksburg/Bailey/Isabelle Heights neighborhood). My mom lives in the CostCo (Costanza/Columbia county area).”

ROFL!

@madmonk28

It’s something people in Virginia say, no one in DC says it and I don’t think I’ve heard anyone from Maryland say it.

I’ve never heard ANYONE say it. Don’t go blaming this pile of feces on Virginia!

Also, it sounds too much like “DMZ”, a reference which makes some veterans very uncomfortable.

[SisterCoyote]

I have to admit, DMZ was my first thought. (Demilitarized zone, for those too young to have heard the term)

[JohnT]

@The_Stainless_Steel_Rat

I do believe that the Mumber was trying to indicate DC/Maryland/Virginia, but for all I know there is a storm cloud over his Car that is rusting it out…

Shoulda got the Tru Coat.

[Textual_Innuendo]

@Asylum

Please stop this! We do not live in the DMV! It is a horrible nickname! Would you want to vacation in the DMV?

Well, if you read Mumber’s thread on moving away from the area, there’s a good population of former DMV-ers (myself included) who found the area as joyful and harmonious as trips to the actual DMV, so the simile is actually pretty good for those folk who aren’t fans of the place.

[Gatopescado]

Weather guy where I live reported a whopping 6% humidity today.

[TruCelt]

Had to share: Today I actually saw someone refer to Olde Towne Alexandria as “The OTA.”

Bless his heart.