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  1. gravitylover
    Apparently I'm just passing 2" now. Considering how steadily and how heavily the rain has been all day I expected more but when a half dozen local stations are within .2 ya gotta go with it. Flash flood warnings have been issued for the area.
  2. gravitylover
    1.2. I've been on the edge of the heavy stuff all day. Just north or west by a few miles is a half to an inch higher.
  3. gravitylover
    Floyd was insane. Just under 14" here, between 14.5-15 along the Taconic Spine just west of here and a max of 16.5-17 along Quaker Hill and Cranberry Mt in Patterson. Whole hillsides washed away, roads were rivers and waterfalls were everywhere. It was the most intense weather I've ever seen for over an hour. I drove home from work at what I thought was the end of the worst of it and got caught in some downpours that forced me to stop the car because I couldn't see past the windshield. It was exhilarating
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    I had a ~15' tall chokecherry growing in the yard that I found yesterday. It wasn't there at the beginning of the year because I cleaned that corner of the yard down to dirt in March. I say had because a few minutes ago I went and pushed it over then ripped it out. It pulled up nearly a foot and a half around root ball. What I'm getting it is the ground is so soft that healthy, new growth that big can just be pulled out by hand. As the wind is already coming up a little in the heavier showers I'm getting concerned for the 50+ foot trees all over the hill.
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    There's really no "moderate" anymore, is there? Go big or go home. Precip amounts, dewpoints, snow by the foot... Howzabout we get a quarter inch of rain here and there, maybe 4-6" of snow, maybe a hot week where it gets to 87 once or twice rather than 96. Geez
  6. gravitylover
    .18-.2 already.
  7. gravitylover
    Dry and warm here.
  8. gravitylover
    That was my first winter with a drivers license. I used to borrow dads car after dropping him at the train station. At least once a week I'd leave from there to go skiing rather than to school. I'd drive up to Hunter and ski all day then get back in time to pick him up. I almost missed a few times It was a good winter on LI but only in relation to the times, it was an average (which meant pretty good) winter in the Catskills. Sorry all for the thread drift...
  9. gravitylover
    Dude that fall was brutal. HS senior year at OHS started out horribly uncomfortable.
  10. gravitylover
    Yup. I'm getting worried that they're going to start making a home in the ground or somewhere less than obvious and I won't see it until it's too late. Three and a half day away with not maintenance and the garden took a beating. Mildew completely took over all 8 melon vines and the weight of tomatoes brought most of those plants down but where they aren't overrun with blight they're still flowering and producing nicely while existing fruit is still ripening slowly. Peppers are doing nicely but the beans are done. Looks like plenty more rain incoming.
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    The maple in front has been dropping slowly for 2 weeks and is starting to show some color, the pos chokecherry in the back is dumping blighted leaves into the garden for a month and the sheer volume of berries coming down is insane. It's easily 2-3" deep under the tree and that's after thousands, millions?!, are rotting and drawing tons of wasps.
  12. gravitylover
    Wam, bam, the soaking rains just keep coming. If we can stretch this out a day or two maybe it can be a rainout for my birthday on the 7th.
  13. gravitylover
    I'm a few hundred miles west, did it really rain and inch this morning already? Guess I didn't need to be concerned that the heat was gonna be a problem for the garden...
  14. gravitylover
    Captain Lou lived pretty close to me and was a partner at a tire shop a mile away. I used to see him often. He was quite a character
  15. gravitylover
    Yeah the bugs are a bit worse but still manageable and most things are still growing and doing ok. We are going out of town for 3 days though so it will be unattended...
  16. gravitylover
    I dunno, the 87/88 I dealt with this afternoon was pretty hot and uncomfortable. Maybe it wouldn't be quite as unpleasant if the AC in my car worked but it was hot.
  17. gravitylover
    You'd need to remove tens of billions of gallons... Ultimately any water we use on land will eventually make its way to the ocean so there would be no effect on sea levels.
  18. gravitylover
    A 3 week winter... kinda like the one we just went through, same timing too.
  19. gravitylover
    It's not too bad if you sit still in the shade. Garden came through pretty well, a few split open tomatoes, a few plants that will hopefully like living in the ground and some that had to have more stakes added. Hopefully it stays warm and dry for a few days and the mildew and blight stays manageable. Median of the stations on the hill is just over 3" for Henri and 1.8 two days before. Wet week but we got off easy compared to many.
  20. gravitylover
    These popcorn showers today are definitely not the kind of popcorn I like.
  21. gravitylover
    ^^ Yup. These totally soaking showers in between sunny spots are making the air just horribly wet. The mushrooms around the yard are loving it.
  22. gravitylover
    Yep here too but I'd call it something more like - dense moderate - thoroughly soaking, medium droplet size and falling fast.
  23. gravitylover
    Up to .9 since the rain started back up early this morning and it's still on the heavy side of moderate. More wind too
  24. gravitylover
    Picked up another half inch since the pivot started, puts me around 2.3" total.
  25. gravitylover
    1.75 so lotsa water but less than the late week deluge last week.
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