gravitylover

I'm having a terrible tomato year, almost lost all the plants, nursed a few back to sort of productive but not like usual. We're at least a few days with no power, they're still assessing but my guess is with all the trees down and a bunch of poles snapped in half it's going to be at least a week. When I kicked the generator on yesterday it fried a bunch of electronics which sucks but it is what it is. This morning everything started up fine but 2 minutes later the well pump shut off and won't come back on so... THIS SUX

Or even northeast, hence noreasters This was just too much and too long from the SE.

Of course.

I don't think the outside damage on my property is too bad, a couple of good sized branches down, it took out 3 sunflowers and 6 cornstalks though All around me it's a mess but mostly large branches rather than whole trees. Like I just posted in the main storm thread I think it's due to the unusual wind direction, we never see 50+ from the ESE so all of these long heavy branches that aren't hardened to wind from that direction gave up. The utility line damage is impressive due to so many branches, in some places the tension on the lines was so high they ripped out from the poles and wrapped around things like a spring popping. They're wrapped around trees that were stripped of their leaves and from jumping around on the ground the streets and lawns are scorched and a few places they stopped when they wrapped around cars and scorched the **** out of them. Crazy stuff for a 4 hour storm.

I got a whole big .65" so not much rain at all really but the wind did some damage. There are trees down everywhere, power lines on the ground that we had to drive over to go out and get dinner and gas lines a half mile long at the 4 stations that have power. There are no traffic lights working around town either which creates chaos. Apparently we aren't expected to get power back for 4-5 days which really sux so I rednecked a way to backfeed power into the house from the generator but it's questionable so I'll shut down overnight. I can at least run the well pump when the gennie is running so that's good. When I flipped the switch the microwave and dehumidifier blew out so I know there's something not quite right but the $10k, plus the cost of the Generac , that it would cost to have it done right is prohibitive. The only other option is run a few extension cords from the portable generator so we have lights but that means no running water and with 4 people you have to be able to flush the toilet.

Garden getting a solid soaking now and the wind is for real. This is turning out to be one of the better summer storms in a few years.

.12! FKNA yeah

75/74 we had a couple of good showers and up to .15 now, that's the most I've had in one episode since Fay.

This time it's drizzling with big enough drops that if one lands in just the right place I might register .001 lol.

I've been dry too, 47 seconds of very light, immeasurable, drizzle. 74/71 now. I'm kinda psyched, someone on my street got a nice weather station and it's on WU so I don't have to patch together reports from around the hill and town to get decent data.

10 miles east of there it's as dry as it gets but it looks like we're gonna get doused in a few minutes.

I got .04, that makes .05 for the week. I should sit down and add it up but I doubt I'm over 3". It's so dry, SO DRY, in the woods near me right now, it's hardpan and dusty and the leaf carpet is crackly. Fire danger is coming up quickly now.

Man, these crazy storms where I get a few hundredths of an inch are awesome Maybe we'll get a hurricane and actually soak the forest for a change rather than just dampen the surface. The fire danger is starting to get scary.

It's pretty cloudy so it's not that searing heat but it's more like an all encompassing energy zapper. Blech...

Is it wearing a mask? 75/72 with the morning low of 72.

I got the big .01 for the last 30 or so hours. It's kinda nice right now, cloudy, breezy and in the low 70's.

Yup from ac in the house to ac in the car to ac in the supermarket and back. We spent nearly an hour sitting outside in the shade with my father in law at the assisted living facility he's at and it was pretty unpleasant. He was totally comfortable, didn't even feel the need to wear a jacket! I'm not 94 so I don't understand... My daughter, bless her little 21 year old heart, just went for a road ride a little while ago, I'm sitting next to the garden drinking cold beer

Nope, two at most. It doesn't seem like it has been all that hot, unpleasant enough to keep me from doing some stuff yes but not as brutal as it could have been. I think if the pseudo drought had continued and things really dried out it would be a different story and we'd be seeing crazy high temps. I think I'd almost rather it be dry though as the humidity is a killer when you want to do outside things.

Yup it has to be a full cage. I'm not prepared for that. Yet. It's just such a bummer to throw all that time and a bunch of money at it and then see something else eat it. I'm gonna keep plugging away and keep planting until I run out of time. I have a ton of seeds left so I'm going for it. It seems like I have plenty of time on my hands as my industry is literally selling out of products so I'm running out of things to sell and have no real reason to be on the road this year. Of course, im not earning squat either which pretty much sucks.

Damned critters are getting more benefit out of my garden now than I am. Yesterday I lost about 40 melons, they even ate most of the female flowers that had just been pollinated and had small fruits started. The previous two days they'd ripped open the corn stalks and devoured the cobs forming inside the stalks and this morning almost all of the second plantings were dug up. I'm so bummed, hundreds of hours are being destroyed and I can't seem to stop it. Last night I fell asleep in a pile of sweat sitting on the patio with a pellet gun in my hand and almost popped myself in the foot.

And the AC in my car is spewing water all over the floor so I can't use it for more than a minute or two at a time. PITA getting up under the dashboard in a sports car

How is it that so many times a line of rain/storms splits as it gets to me and I stay dry while I can see it raining just east or west of me? Today it's east, black and stormy, lightning, thunder and I can see the wall of rain. A lot of times the last 20 years I'd be the one getting hit but this year is the exact opposite. Just a weird observation but last week proved it out when Brian in Fairfield CT, 30 miles south but just a few miles east got pummeled while I sat here and watched the storm headed his way and stayed dry. edit: It didn't stay totally dry, I did get 3 minutes of heavy rain, 7 minutes of rain overall, and some wind but it was very obviously a fringe situation.

Yup, gonna get wet. Bummer, I was hoping to ride in the morning.

So are we getting wet tonight or will it wait until after noon tomorrow?

Went from a reasonable .4 a little before 7pm to 1.7 by a little after 8pm. The wind was definitely worse than Fay delivered and it brought down some big branches and made another big mess in the garden that negated the hours I spent fixing yesterday's damage.