IronTy

Where'd all the rain go? Just disappeared.

Watching those storms in charles county but they seem to be stuck there and not moving east much. Clouds have rolled in to Calvert at least so it's not as bad outside. Checking the cams up in DC and it's pouring at the house up there.

I've lost a fair number of first instar regalis caterpillars to drowning from all the torrential rains this week. That's a first for me.

I wonder how much cloud cover impacts that? I'd think that more cloud cover would reduce the UHI effect and maybe that helps normalize DC temps? Just a guess though.

Got my shower in, phew! Actually the wind hasn't been too bad, just heavy rain.

Power is going in and out. Thinking I really should have taken a shower before the storm arrived.

You're too late, you missed all the snow down here last winter.

I believe it. Those stupid tulip and sycamore street trees up there are a risk in this storm.

I just looked at the Arlo cams on my city house in Bloomingdale and you're right, it's a lot of wind with torrential rain.

Yup, I'm trying to slow roll my cigar so it lasts til the storms arrive. I could see 2-3" out of this. Phew. I hope the tulip trees are ok. Oooo, lightning and intense thunder just over my house right now. Wow it's loud.

Radar looks pretty.ominous for the storms coming in to st Mary's county. Sitting on the front porch in Calvert waiting for them to roll across the river. Can already hear thunder. It's gonna be heavy.

I guess for me it would be trying to go to sleep with the house like 85 degrees. I'd live in the basement I think,.though that would probably get all moldy pretty quick.

Out changing my caterpillar bags and it's so oppressive out. It feels hard to breathe. I don't know how the old timers did it without AC down here in the olden times. Has to be the most important invention of all time other than electricity or antibiotics ..

Sure it's lower on the BTU content vs hickory or oak, but it's light and splits easy and burns well. I wouldn't purposely pay for it but around here tulip trees grow faster than lawn and there's always somebody trying to offload logs from a tree they had to remove (or that a storm knocked down). So for free I'll definitely take it.

On my ride to the gym this morning there were large 2-3ft tulip trees down all over on the road about a mile from my house. Must've been some serious localized winds. They were blocking driveways and side streets everywhere. Free firewood for somebody...