Theodore's World

We've had 23 days of rain this month, and about the same in May. Some towns in Connecticut have had 20 inches or more of rain in five weeks. It grows even worse on the coast, from Rhode Island to Maine.

At the moment, the cold front and low pressure systems causing it (since the end of April) have moved west to New York State and Pennsylvania, but threaten to move back east and start this thing all over again.

We haven't seen this kind of water since the floods of 1955, with really widespread destruction along the Mad River and Farmington River in this state (Connecticut)...all the old factory and mill settlements washed away with the people in them.

One of the problems is that New England is laced with lakes, big and small rivers, and creeks and old stone dams. Too many watersheds, too much rock ledge underneath, too much random elevation and valleys, and too much water retained.

And screw Al Gore. This has nothing to do with global warming.

Hi Rhod, Gore can jump off a bridge with his ideas. He is full of it and he is nuts too I think.

I am so sorry you are having this kind of rain and flooding.

Hope you are not affected Rhod. Wish you could send that rain down here to us in North Texas, we are in drought condition.

Guess we would not be conversing if Al Gore had not invented this Internet, and won the Vietnam War, and built the Hoover dam, and walked on water, and -------------

Tom hahahhaha good one.

TomR:

Thanks for the wishes, TR. So far, since May, two sump pumps working around the clock, but that's normal for my house. Only the frequency changes. Folks elsewhere are having worse trouble. Just haven't been able to do the stuff we normally do in April, and the damp and gloom gets to you after a while.

I know about North Texas. Dallas is awash and you guys are dry. There must be liberals in charge upstairs.

I got lucky. We had one cloudburst on Saturday that lasted about forty minutes and dumped about four inches of rain. Our little brook was almost over it's banks but all the standing water drained away overnight. Most of the weather seems to have gone on either side of my part of central NJ. It's been showering nonstop for days, but we're handling it around here. Some towns not too far North and West of us have been under water for days.

HI Gregor, I am glad it stopped raining for you. 4 inches of rain in 40 minutes is a tremendous amount. WoW!