Hurricane Joaquin

[PhilaGardener]

Rainy and cool here but everything looks like it will be fine. Good thing the track seems out to sea because the soil up and down the Eastern Seaboard is pretty saturated. Stay dry and warm, everyone!

 

[catjac1975]

I love a cold house. last weekend friends stayed over so we could leave early for orchard. I opened all the windows, in middle of night got up to use bathroom, was surprised heat was on. Rather then close windows someone turned heat on.

I would never turn the heat on in someone else's house. Well... maybe my kids...you know, pay back.

 

[Nyboy]

Cat living with my parents they where the only ones allowed to touch the heat !! That was one rule you did not want to break!!!

 

[thistlebloom]

That's how it worked in my family too. We kids would never even think to touch a thermostat.
Mom and dad had an ongoing thermostat cold war going though. Mom was always cold and dad was always frugal. Mom would nudge the temperature up, dad would walk by the thermostat, pause to look, and if it was above the "threshold" would turn it back down.
Mom was never happier than when they got the woodstove.

 

[majorcatfish]

another 1" in the rain gauge this morning. did see a couple trees down on the way to the store.. nice going to the store early we had the place almost to ourselves.

 

[Nyboy]

We had heavy rain last night. Today light rain on and off very little wind, chilly.

 

[majorcatfish]

went out to the barn to work on a couple things, the ground is so saturated that there is 1/4" of water standing with no place to go... even fired up mr.heater to take the chill off while working..

 

[Just-Moxie]

We are up to 10" rain here so far at our little acre. Still torrential rains and downpours coming.
We had to rescue 3 chickens from a back pen lat night at 12:30am. A gust blew through and ripped off their tarp. They are set up in a 10'x10' dog kennel, with tarp. But is has been very lacking in storms lately. We put them in the empty chicken tractor and put that under the carport for now. It has been too rainy and wet to even feed them.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

On GMA this morning on ABC, there was a weather reporter standing in the middle of Charleston SC in thigh high water in the street. And it was LOW tide. UGH

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Grandpa and Grandmother, who had a summer home in Waretown NJ right on Barnegut Bay, would fill the scrubbed clean bathtub with water for drinking. They would put plastic wrap over it to keep it clean.