Comments on: 9 inches of rain: please don’t take my sunshine

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:39:39 +0000

Welcome, Julia. Yes, all of the above. I topped 20 in 6 weeks not so long ago, and have now stopped counting. My sister (in Troy) is the same as you describe as well. Ugh. A big ugh. But our friends in the Pacific Northwest haven’t had any rain since late May, I think, and temps over 100 even, and I think I’d rather be sodden than fried. The world is upside down and backwards. See you soon, I hope, if we both stay afloat.

By: Julia from Troy, NY

Julia from Troy, NY — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:09:50 +0000

Okay, now it’s august and it’s rained at least every other day of the summer. In fact I can count on one hand the number of days that it was sunny and WARM, and DIDN’T have to work. It has yet to reach 90 degrees this summer. The forecast for this week, today 73 and rain/flash flooding (even though we’ve declared a state of emergency in my county from the flash flooding that happened 2 days ago), tomorrow sunny, warm, and 82…Sunday 75 with severe thunderstorms and flash flooding, Monday 79 with left over showers and storms, and the rest of the week will pretty much follow suit with temps. in the 70′s and rain. I swear the world is coming to an end.

By: laura

laura — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:23:28 +0000

I just heard a GREAT version of ‘You are my Sunshine’ by Aretha Franklin. Hope it’s part of your collection…