Damn this rain! [Archive] - SpursTalk.com Forums

Ginofan

07-07-2007, 06:55 AM

Okay, seriously...I'm a person who absolutely LOVES the rain, but damn I just about died on my way to work this morning!

I had to drive all the way to Seguin in the pitch black darkness which is bad enough on it's own...but in the pouring rain?! COME ON! I had to go 50MPH on 90 East. Stupid 18 wheelers are just zoomin by throwin' gallons and gallons of water all over my car to the point I can't see for shit. Not to mention my lovely POS hydroplanes when there's just one droplet of water on the road, imagine when there's at least 1.5 inches on the road.

Can we just have at least 3 days in a row of no rain? PLEASE! I apologize for the rant but I just HAD to get that out.

SpursWoman

07-07-2007, 07:11 AM

I am totally with you....this is really getting old. :(

CharlieMac

07-07-2007, 07:14 AM

Yeah, I gotta drive to work in Schertz this morning. I don't mess with those 18 wheelers doing 80 in heavy rain.

spurschick

07-07-2007, 07:20 AM

I'm with you! And I don't want just three days... I need it to stop raining for a few weeks! The rain has caused damage to my back deck, which has caused damage to the living room/patio door, which Allstate says is "rising water" damage, a.k.a "not covered by your policy", blah, blah, blah. I need it to stop raining long to get someone out here to fix it! Dammit!

Shelly

07-07-2007, 09:08 AM

How scary, Ginofan! I got my roof fixed just in time.

There's hope on the horizon. After Monday, it looks pretty quiet.

katyon6th

07-07-2007, 09:44 AM

I'm glad you made it there okay! Be careful on your way home and on your way over here.

And yes, this damn rain needs to just go away. I hate you rain.

ploto

07-07-2007, 10:20 AM

Please be careful. Drivers are stupid.

That being said I refuse to complain about rain ever in the summer in San Antonio because the 100 degrees and drought is just around the corner.

AlamoSpursFan

07-07-2007, 10:23 AM

Try to cut those idiots in the 18-wheelers as wide a berth as possible. Some big rig drivers apparently slept through the day in class when they taught speed + rain = jackknife.

We're not all unsafe morons.

sa_butta

07-07-2007, 10:28 AM

MannyIsGod

07-07-2007, 11:01 AM

Johnny_Blaze_47

07-07-2007, 11:37 AM

You guys are going to be wishing for rain next week.

You should have just predicted rain sometime in the past few weeks and it would have been bone dry. :lol

ORION

07-07-2007, 11:41 AM

I was in a car accident as a passenger yesterday. My mother in law was driving and messed up her car pretty good. She was pulling out into traffic and this lady slammed into us. Everyone in both parties including children are all ok, but still sucks..
man you can always hold that against your mother in law. every time she "offers" her opinon you can just start saying " oh my neck is starting to hurt"

SpursWoman

07-07-2007, 12:54 PM

You guys are going to be wishing for rain next week.

No, I'm pretty sure it'll take at least a month without before that happens. For me, anyway. :lol

At least my CPS bill shouldn't be too bad without the a/c having to work so hard.

:fro

cherylsteele

07-07-2007, 01:13 PM

Please be careful. Drivers are stupid.

That being said I refuse to complain about rain ever in the summer in San Antonio because the 100 degrees and drought is just around the corner.
No kidding....Just wait until mid August-September.....their will be those who will be wondering where the rain went.

This could be alot worse....think 1998...I distinctly remember that whole weekend that it NEVER STOPPED raining. At least now we have good breaks in between the storms.

I don't really mind the rain too much.

boutons_

07-07-2007, 01:58 PM

Rain is much better than no rain.

You know the rain is going to stop, but you never know in a drought when/if rain is going to start.

Everybody's yards and plants look great, compared to the disaster of the last two summers.

TheTruth

07-07-2007, 02:22 PM

I'm with Cheryl, at least we've had a few days off before storms.

The most mad I've been through all of this was on 4th of July. It's pouring rain, and they are taking us off I10 for construction. Well, the access road they took us off too was completely flooded, and it was getting to the point were cars couldn't drive on it. The cops at that intersection didn't know what to do.

cherylsteele

07-07-2007, 03:51 PM

3:50 pm 7/7/07...it is pouring near Bandera and Evers where I live.
Looks like more on the way:
http://www.weather.com/weather/map/78228?clip=698&region=null&collection=localwxforecast&presname=San%20Antonio,%20TX%20Forecast&name=index_large_animated&day=1

SpursWoman

07-07-2007, 04:02 PM

It's certainly true that my yard went from dead squares of sod to lush and dark green with only a little weed & feed in less than a month without a $100+ water bill ...

Eh, it's depressing not seeing any sunshine for so long. But least I got to go to the grocery store during a break just now.

And 4th of July we had 8 kids with us in a tiny little lake house at Canyon Lake. We finally decided to take them to the *beach* in the rain before we were forced to kill them all, and by the time we got there the rain stopped totally for the rest of the evening. We finally got to shoot off the massive collection of fireworks we'd accumulated from previous holiday's burn bans and rain. :elephant

User did end up having to tow my truck out of the mud, though. :oops :lol

BigBeezie

07-08-2007, 12:05 AM

I actually want it to rain twice a week for July and August. I hate watering my yard and I don't want to buy a sprinkler system.

I am obviously not the norm here...

AlamoSpursFan

07-08-2007, 12:11 AM

Rained on me all the way up I-59 to Meridian, MS today.

Mississippians are even worse drivers in the wet stuff. I counted no less than 7 cars and 1 Ryder cube truck spun off in the bar ditch. :lol

Oh and the highlight of the trip was on I-10 just past Beaumont, there was a big wreck on the west bound side that had both lanes of the interstate blocked. Sucked for the peeps in the wreck, but 4 or 5 impatient yin-yangs decided to try driving through the median WHICH HAD PLAINLY VISIBLE STANDING WATER IN IT from all the rain. I almost drove off the road from laughing myself silly. One van with like 8 guys in it was sunk so far in the mud it had water over the hood.

:lmao

Not only do they get to pay the wrecker bill and the repair costs, they hopefully also got a nice little pink slip of paper from the friendly state troopers who just happened to be on hand in large numbers clearing the wreck.

IX_Equilibrium

07-08-2007, 02:20 AM

THIS SUMMER >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>last summer

I'll take the rain. Last summer's drought, water restrictions, and constant heat was fucking miserable.

THE SIXTH MAN

07-08-2007, 02:36 AM

THIS SUMMER >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>last summer

I'll take the rain. Last summer's drought, water restrictions, and constant heat was fucking miserable.
Not to mention those fucking butterflies.

AnkleBreaker21

07-08-2007, 02:53 AM

Rain is much better than no rain.

You know the rain is going to stop, but you never know in a drought when/if it's going to start.

Everybody's yards and plants look great, compared to the disaster of the last two summers.
shit with all this rain i have to cut the freakin grass like every 4 days

MannyIsGod

07-08-2007, 11:44 AM

All i know is that I prefer cloudy rain cooled days to days in august where the temp is 98 with a billion percent humidity in the shade. Thats shit.

Das Texan

07-08-2007, 12:53 PM

people complain about everything.

too much rain.

too little rain.

too cold.

too hot.

blah blah blah.

:lol

peewee's lovechild

07-08-2007, 12:56 PM

Rain makes me horny . . . so, yea, I like the rain.

2Blonde

07-08-2007, 02:15 PM

Well I'm not complaining about the weather right now because we've had no rain since the afternoon of 4th of July over at the portion of Canyon Lake where I live. We're on our 4th day and now it's dry enough that our landscapers can come back tomorrow and go back to work. :clap

LuvBones

07-15-2007, 03:18 AM

*yawn* This rain is keeping me up...

The sone

07-15-2007, 03:24 AM

my friggin lights are off and on...i need another candle and a better flash light...do you have any idea how hard it is to pee while holding a childproof lighter!?!?!?!

I SINGED THE SCRO!

pika pika pika!!!

LuvBones

07-15-2007, 03:27 AM

:lmao

The sone

07-15-2007, 03:28 AM

shoosh!

ShoogarBear

07-15-2007, 07:03 AM

Bitch when it rains.

Bitch when it doesn't rain.

Puro San Antonio. :lol

SpursWoman

07-15-2007, 09:00 AM

JoeChalupa

07-15-2007, 10:22 AM

I loved the rain. Nice cool morning and nice green lawn with no need for sprinklers. Didn't lose power either. :tu

Aggie Hoopsfan

07-15-2007, 11:08 AM

:lol @ Shoog

That was the loudest damn thunder & lighning I have ever heard in my life....it's like it was repeatedly hitting my house or something.

Needless to say, the power kept going out ... but what I want to know, is why, whenever there's particularly loud thunder, out of all of the circuits in our box, is it always the master (downstairs) and the 3 bedrooms upstairs that always trip? That's just weird to me. :wtf

Several manufacturers of breakers wire it so that the circuits with the most load on them (which would typically be the ones with the most appliances, etc. tied in to them trip first.

In conjunction with this though, usually it's a wiring issue that predisposes one particular part of the house circuit to being tripped than others.

Either you've got a lot of current load in those particular rooms, or some faulty wiring.

ShoogarBear

07-15-2007, 11:15 AM

Needless to say, the power kept going out ... but what I want to know, is why, whenever there's particularly loud thunder, out of all of the circuits in our box, is it always the master (downstairs) and the 3 bedrooms upstairs that always trip? That's just weird to me. :wtfWhere do you keep the vibrators?

SpursWoman

07-15-2007, 11:43 AM

Where do you keep the vibrators?

Those run on a generator. :lol

The only thing on at the time in any of the 4 rooms are alarm clock(s) and a DVR receiver, and each room is on it's own circuit. But, with all of the problems with Ryland in my neighborhood thus far, faulty wiring wouldn't surprise me. Even though my home is only 10 months old. :fro

We just had a few power on/offs in a row (thank God I hadn't reset all of the clocks yet :lol), and it's mostly sunny and nice outside.

FromWayDowntown

07-15-2007, 05:04 PM

Yay! More rain!

ashbeeigh

07-15-2007, 05:32 PM

:elephant It's not raining in Dallas for once!

Sorry Sa-town.

Gonzo

07-15-2007, 05:37 PM

Damn The Rain Is Making My Fur Soggy

exstatic

07-15-2007, 07:04 PM

:dizzy
tornado in town last night? (http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/breaking/2007/07/neighborhood_hammered_by_isola.html)

FromWayDowntown

07-15-2007, 07:09 PM

Damn The Rain Is Making My Fur Soggy

I've always wondered -- what exactly are you?

sabar

07-16-2007, 12:52 AM

Waaaay too much rain. My grass is turning yellow from it and my banana trees are growing like weeds.

SpursWoman

07-16-2007, 01:04 PM

:dizzy
tornado in town last night? (http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/breaking/2007/07/neighborhood_hammered_by_isola.html)

Yeah, that would explain the deafening thunder & lightning we had. I think we're about 2-3, 4? miles from where it hit, but some coworkers lost some trees & a fence. Tornado, 80-100mph winds? Yeah, that's a justifiably bitchable offense. :lol