Got Water?

[Hoosier]

Holy Cow!

Spent weekend in a cabin in Brown County. Wet, muddy, and a good storm blew through. (Thought I'd be fishing, but had more fun canoodling anyway.)

Came back home near Kokomo and the weather followed.

Had a devil of a time finding my way to work around the flooded roads. The worst I encountered were in Grant county.

Hope everyone is safe and dry! With the saturation we have anymore rain today could be really bad for folks on lower ground.

 

[0smitty]

Yikes, sorry to hear about your bad luck with the weather, Hoosier!

Here in Ft. Wayne, things have been rather on-and-off, weather-wise. One moment, it's been hot and sunny, the next it's just plain humid, and rain whenever it feels like the moment's right. But, seeing as we're getting more sun and heat than rain and humidity, who am I to complain, riiiiight??

 

[BoneIdle]

Wow! Sounds rough, Hoosier.

Over here in Kosciusko county, we seem to be at the small end of an area that the really violent stuff is flowing around, so we've been spared anything extreme.

Last Tuesday (I think), I was lying in bed recuperating from gallbladder surgery, when a tornado watch was issued. I remember thinking how interesting navigating to the basement would be while in pain and on Percoset. Fortunately, nothing happened.


Weather in this state is pretty wild: I've lived through hurricanes in Florida and blizzards in Iowa, but Indiana weather is reminiscent of Georgia weather 30+ years ago - if you don't like it, wait 5 minutes. It'll change

 

[VaporPhreak]

Hope everyone is safe and dry! Looks like things have finally stabilized and now its just going to get hot and muggy. 90's by the weekend folks! 90's!!! Im starting to wonder if I can work remotely... as in pool side Ah well... there is always the weekend, right? Enjoy folks!

 

[Kobudo]

90s? Come down to Evansville and enjoy our daytime highs of 100+ degree heat!

 

[Hoosier]

I'm sure we'll get the heat soon enough. Probably about the time we can stop using canoes to get to a highway.

Howard county is horrible now. Drove over 7 miles at 5mph or less to wade through water to get out of the county this morning. GF texted me a bit ago saying she couldn't get to 31.

Everyone south in drain direction of all this best keep alert. This will fill your ditchs' exits and make any rain south of us much worse for flood conditions.

(At least we had a day without standing water last week...)

 

[ryanmercer]

I'm ready for the humidity, heat, and rain to end... sadly, we are just getting started... and got my first mosquito bites tonight grilling. I'm too young to get this grumpy about the weather haha.

 

[ndfourleafclover]

I'm ready for the humidity, heat, and rain to end... sadly, we are just getting started... and got my first mosquito bites tonight grilling. I'm too young to get this grumpy about the weather haha.

You can say that again. My wife and I had to help her Grandma move yesterday. It was miserable outside. The heat was unbearable. And the fact that her Grandma had so much stuff didn't help. I'm not joking. It took 2 box trucks, 6 car loads, and 9 hours to move a one bedroom apartment.

 

[ryanmercer]

You can say that again. My wife and I had to help her Grandma move yesterday. It was miserable outside. The heat was unbearable. And the fact that her Grandma had so much stuff didn't help. I'm not joking. It took 2 box trucks, 6 car loads, and 9 hours to move a one bedroom apartment.

Wow, yeah I was coming down 40 headed home yesterday and I looked across one of the empty fields, and the trees 200 yards away were blurry from the heat and humidity... I don't even want to cut the grass, I keep looking for excuses not to. Friday I mounted a flag on the garage, was out there for 20 minutes, and came in soaking wet and drained.

 

[Kobudo]

We got a nice little break from the heat down here today, it only topped in the low 80s! Almost makes me re-think the career move I'm trying to make that would take me to Albuquerque and away from this humidity!

 

[Hoosier]

... Almost makes me re-think the career move I'm trying to make that would take me to Albuquerque and away from this humidity!

To dry heat and shades of brown?

Good luck to ya', but I'll keep my lung gills growing and enjoy the change of seasons.

Besides Bugs keeps tunneling under that place and it causes him to make wrong turns.

More seriously:
Only gotten close to that city. Is it worth visiting? Been mulling a vacation out "thatta' way", but remain undecided.

 

[Kobudo]

They are far enough north they get as much snow as we do in Evansville... There's even a ski resort an hour north of there. I've honestly never even been out that far west, but the dryness can only help one as sweat-prone as me, and the job I'm hoping for will pay more than I make here. The cost of living index is lower there too, so even better.

It's nothing concrete yet, but I'd really like the change -- working in the golf industry (which I enjoy) will be a lot more fun than dealing with a handcuffed 13-year-old boy who won't stop screaming that he's going to stab me (which I didn't enjoy too much). At least he was nice enough to tell me where he had the knife so I could take it from his pocket.

 

[BoneIdle]

Great, big hedges of Rosemary in Albuquerque. I've never seen that much Rosemary in one place before.

It's cold there in the winter: it's not Indiana cold, but that wind coming off the mountains and from the desert, cuts right through you.

Don't go there if you have agoraphobia.

 

[TheLizinator]

I've spent some time about 8,000 miles above sea level just outside Albuquerque. Sadly, I suffered altitude sickness (severe enough to be rushed to a mountain clinic). Still, it's beautiful and there is hardly anything as breathtaking as the annual hot air balloon festival around October. Not having lived there year-round, though, I can't say how hospitable it might be. Considering the muggy weather (as in hot-wet-blanket-on-your- face) around here, there aren't too many places more extreme (north of the Equator) than Indiana in the summer. Even muggy old Florida has ocean breezes to break up the heat. Went out for about 3 hours today and could wring the humidity out of my clothes by the time I returned home. Thank heaven for air conditioning and autumn cooling (that can't be all that far away). Not crazy about the scrub landscape of the dry desert. We've got some truly beautiful landscape around here.