Good News: rain is on the way!

[xmas74]

And the temps will drop tomorrow.

Bad news: my town is projected to only get about a tenth of an inch, the temps will drop into the 90's and the news reports already have admitted the crops are ruined for the year.

[teddy51]

1. Shit, you are welcome to as much rain from us as you can handel. We are in late July and there

should be no rain in our forecast, but we are getting it in buckets. (Pacific Northwest here).

[xmas74]

5. We need it.

The ground is cracking all over and the crops are scorched.

[shanti]

23. but it keeps you all so nice and green!

i lived in olympia for awhile in the late 70's and remember my first july as a new mom, picking wild blackberries with baby in backpack. i'd love to move back...

[gateley]

2. So happy for you! You guys deserve a break. I feel guilty every time it

rains in Seattle -- and it's been raining a lot!

[xmas74]

6. We need over a foot of rain

over the course of a few weeks before it will do us any good at all.

Time to stock up on all your non perishables-grocery prices will be sky high come winter.

[B Calm]

3. My son called me today and wanted to bury

his yellow lab on my property. It took us over an hour to dig a hole 3 feet deep. Because the dirt is so hard and dry we needed a pick. Over the past two days there has been lots of rain 70 miles north of here, but nothing here. Dry as bone and hotter than hell!!

[xmas74]

7. Where are you at?

I'm in Missouri and the ground is so dry it's cracked.

[B Calm]

22. Western Indiana, 7 miles from the Illinois

state line, and about halfway down the state.

[WCGreen]

4. The lawn here in the Cleveland area has shut down.

We haven't had to cut the grass for six weeks...

[xmas74]

8. I haven't mowed in over a month.

Nothing is growing.

[susanna]

14. Detroit, here...

Haven't cut the grass all summer. It's just pulling weeds at this point; grass went dormant at least a month and a half ago, there is really no point...

[shanti]

24. grass goes dormant?

i did not know that. my backyard is all hardpan and dead grass in the summer, but in the winter it pops right up again.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. I can't believe it is a quarter to midnight (CST) and still 91 damn degrees!

I am in NE Oklahoma, so it is hot as hell here too. At least it isn't humid. Well, to natives of Oklahoma it may be, but from someone like me, who is from the deep South and just spent five years in NEw Orleans; this ain't humidity! It looks like fall here because so many lawns are dead and trees are losing leaves. I have two almost completely bald trees. It is really sad.

[xmas74]

10. I'm in Missouri

and the leaves are all dead here too. There will be no pretty fall colors this year because they leaves won't last until October.

And it's in the nineties here too.

[lonestarnot]

11. Someone in St. Louis died today as a direct result of the heat.

[xmas74]

13. KC has had a few deaths because of the heat.

I think St Louis is supposed to be in the line of the storms too.
/fingers crossed

[alp227]

12. ...

[susanna]

15. Northern Michigan is getting rain tonight...

I hope it makes its way down here towards the city.

Plus a shout out for Creedence. Great song

[alp227]

21. I lived in Ann Arbor when I was a little boy and have lived in Northern CA since first grade.

Best part? Dry summers, no Midwestern storms!

[Habibi]

16. Upstate New York here,

and having the first real rainfall since spring. Gentle, sweet, and not enough, alas. Hoping for more than forecast for you.

[Rowdyboy]

17. Meanwhile here in central Mississippi our rainfall has been well above normal this year....

especially this month. Last year we were in full drought mode so I really do feel your pain. Hope it improves soon for all of you guys throught the drought area....

[xmas74]

18. They've already warned everyone via news reports

that groceries will be sky-high come late fall-early winter. The drought has scorched the crops.

Now's the time to stock up on your non-perishables.

[Rowdyboy]

19. Saw it on ABC national news tonight...luckily its only inconvenient for me....For people with kids

or on tight budgets/fixed incomes its gonna be really rough. What a perfect time to cut food staamps to the bone...

[xmas74]

20. Still a good idea to stock up now.

Flour would be a good one to stock. Good luck getting any corn-I can personally vouch for how awful the fields look.