Katiekicks: With the drought, Florida isn’t looking too good either. What part of Texas did you move to? Monahans (the only dune desert outside of barrier islands in the state).
comicsssfan: It has rained here too, but nothing is broken. Until you get a week-long drizzle-druzzle, the drought continues. I remember the break from both the Dust Bowl in the ’30s and the Seven Year drought in the ’50s, and one rain has little effect, as welcome as it may be, and mostly runs off. This one has cost me a red oak, southern longleaf pine, crabapple, and most of a blackberry field, but all a single rain produces is just more grass to mow!
comicssfan and hippogriff, The current drought may or may not be over, but the weather that blew through SW Michigan last night had a different feel to it. It seemed like a change of seasons. No proof, I’ve just lived here all my life and you feel things in your bones after a while… Now, I know, it’s gonna get hot again, 90º next week maybe. 90º next week, and September always starts out hot. Just ask any teacher that ever taught in school without air conditioning! But I consider it it warning shot across the bow…it’s different now….
Varnes: I know what you are talking about. I didn’t have any air conditioning other than an evaporative cooler until I was married with a kid on the way. You, like I, are on the edge of the real drought zone. We spent the spring and summer going from severe to mild on the drought scale. However, I have been through the Dust Bowl and Seven-Year droughts, and was on the edge on the l970s one in the Pacific Northwest, and this one. I don’t have to ask any teacher; I am one, and am using both experience and book-larnin’.
Varnes about 12 years ago
I used to count the number of roofs in the neighborhood I’d been on…..
runar about 12 years ago
Time to go wormucking!
AStarofDestiny about 12 years ago
Extra insulation for the roof, perhaps? JK!
Cofyjunky about 12 years ago
I love rainstorms. At night, or during the day, when you can see the lightening outside your office window. Sigh! :)
Katiekicks about 12 years ago
I used to live in Florida. Since we moved to Texas, I’ve been complaining about the lack of rain and lack of trees.
Varnes about 12 years ago
I live under oak trees. The rain knocks them off. I hear thunk thunk thunk…….
hippogriff about 12 years ago
Katiekicks: With the drought, Florida isn’t looking too good either. What part of Texas did you move to? Monahans (the only dune desert outside of barrier islands in the state).
abishur about 12 years ago
Oh no! She lost both her arms! Oh, wait they’re back in panel 3 :-P
hippogriff about 12 years ago
comicsssfan: It has rained here too, but nothing is broken. Until you get a week-long drizzle-druzzle, the drought continues. I remember the break from both the Dust Bowl in the ’30s and the Seven Year drought in the ’50s, and one rain has little effect, as welcome as it may be, and mostly runs off. This one has cost me a red oak, southern longleaf pine, crabapple, and most of a blackberry field, but all a single rain produces is just more grass to mow!
Varnes about 12 years ago
comicssfan and hippogriff, The current drought may or may not be over, but the weather that blew through SW Michigan last night had a different feel to it. It seemed like a change of seasons. No proof, I’ve just lived here all my life and you feel things in your bones after a while… Now, I know, it’s gonna get hot again, 90º next week maybe. 90º next week, and September always starts out hot. Just ask any teacher that ever taught in school without air conditioning! But I consider it it warning shot across the bow…it’s different now….
hippogriff about 12 years ago
Varnes: I know what you are talking about. I didn’t have any air conditioning other than an evaporative cooler until I was married with a kid on the way. You, like I, are on the edge of the real drought zone. We spent the spring and summer going from severe to mild on the drought scale. However, I have been through the Dust Bowl and Seven-Year droughts, and was on the edge on the l970s one in the Pacific Northwest, and this one. I don’t have to ask any teacher; I am one, and am using both experience and book-larnin’.
GAT17 about 12 years ago
More like Nerf darts in my case….
childe_of_pan over 7 years ago
I have a low ceiling over my bed; all the better to hear the rain on it. “You and me and rain on the roof” -John Sebastian