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44 minutes ago, diyer2 said:

To many wildfires.

 

Looks like the entire state is burning. 😬

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We are at 9200 feet in Colorado. We can have snow in June. Took the boat out for the first time this year on Monday, nice day. Lake is 8700 feet in elevation.  Started snowing yesterday afte

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Still snowing, 22 degrees. Deck pic has lights reflecting in it, much needed moisture. Got some work to do.

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Six inches of rain over three days. That's our average July total! We got half that in about ten minutes yesterday. Ground is soaked and every sprinkle turns into a river. Sump pumps are getting a workout. 😬  If you want some, bring a bucket, bring a barrel. Bring a truck. :crackup:

 

 

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Insane smoke out today. Worst air ever recorded here. Sunrise over the water looked apocalyptic. IMG_8953.thumb.jpeg.74629d3319b51a97c077e6d532d61711.jpeg
Pretty bad in town as well.IMG_8956.thumb.jpeg.381b1b09cee494e5523a70a98a99a4ee.jpeg

Didn’t stop this guy from letting the top down in his C5 of course. He must be a heavy smoker because my lungs wouldn’t handle that so well.IMG_8958.thumb.jpeg.560e911876e200b0af3c3ab236ab589e.jpeg

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21 minutes ago, OnTheReel said:

Insane smoke out today. Worst air ever recorded here. Sunrise over the water looked apocalyptic. 
Pretty bad in town as well.

Didn’t stop this guy from letting the top down in his C5 of course. He must be a heavy smoker because my lungs wouldn’t handle that so well.

 

No better here. Stayed indoors. 95F, 100+ heat index and you can taste the air. Cars/truck covered in ash. Neighborhood looks like its on fire there so much smoke. 

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I still saw people out for runs, on their bikes/motorcylces, jeeps with the doors off driving around here the past 2 days. I guess we are just used to it here haha.

 

Tasted like a bonfire the last 2 days.

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Got heavy rain, hail and light rain yesterday. 

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6 hours ago, diyer2 said:

Got heavy rain, hail and light rain yesterday. 

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 Good, well not so much the hail but rain, yea. 

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.30” of rain all month and it’s been weeks since that. “Mowed” our two properties today for the first time since July 2nd. It only took 30 minutes because all I had to do was level some weeds and saplings in a few problem areas. Everything else is dead.

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2 hours ago, OnTheReel said:

.30” of rain all month and it’s been weeks since that. “Mowed” our two properties today for the first time since July 2nd. It only took 30 minutes because all I had to do was level some weeds and saplings in a few problem areas. Everything else is dead.

 

I went from every other day to about once in five since the rain abated. I'm not unhappy about that. Took most of the month for the ditches to dry enough to mow. 

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We have got a lot of rain lately, we needed it. Storms/lightning took out a floor fan. Dirt roads badly rutted from run off.

 

Power here is sketchy, whole house surge protector in the service panel and all electronics plugged into surge protectors. My biggest concern is my stereo, I've been an audio nut for years. $25 k in equipment. Stereo is on it's own special surge protector.

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Thought it was raining this morning when we woke. Nope. Dew point was over 80 F and humidity 98%. Zero visibility distance. Everything was 'sweating'. I've seen rain come out of clouds but never out of Pepper or the tree trunks. :crackup:

 

Wicked storms just missed us sliding off to the east but by blocks. Heat index about 110 F with air temp in the 90's. 

 

This is  our third wave this month of multiple days of this type of weather. And yet the grass is going dormant and the ground is cracking this side of the street and water up the the hood opposite. Just weird stuff going on. 

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I'm thankful to live where we don't have extreme weather. We might all be blown to smithereens when Mt. Rainier goes, but 80 is warm enough in the summer and I can generally count the number of hard freezes in the winter on one hand. The cars here don't rust and they don't get sun-baked, either.

 

We have finished off many of our average 52 days of "clear/sunny" weather, though. Sunsets are coming earlier, the nights are a little cooler. It's right around the first week of September when we get our first warning that summer is coming to a close with overcast skies and the start of "hoodie weather" temperatures during the cooler parts of the day. By October, it's usually time to ditch the shorts. By November, it's mostly raining.

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