One thing I really hate about weather reports and websites is that I can’t find any meaningful information about what happened weather-wise yesterday. Case in point, we have been hurting for rain in Centreville, VA, for months after a very wet spring. Yesterday we finally had some significant rain but from one person I heard we got a record 2.71 inches at Dulles Airport and from “The Weather Channel” website I saw that we got 1.5 inches. That is a fairly large discrepancy.
I certainly am not complaining about the rain. It is just a shame that it is so hard to find “historical” weather information from even the previous day. Whatever the weather gurus say, I know we got a lot of water last night because my kayak, which was sitting on top of my car, was the only thing visible this morning. But I jest. Actually, it had about about three inches of water in it.
I had to have Ed help me take the kayak off my car this afternoon. I don’t advise driving around with a kayak full of water on the top of your car. Which is not to say I was driving around on the top of my car. Sentencing can be so convoluted.
Bottom line, how much freaking rain have we been getting and is it soaking in or just washing fertilizer, animal shit, and road dirt into the waterways?