I am getting rain this morning, at last. Big lovely drops have been falling since the middle of the night. I know it will take several days of this to control the fires but it certainly is helping.

(Earlier this week a bulletin was issued that there had been nearly 50 thousand acres in just my area alone burned.)

-- Marci (ajourend@libby.org), September 02, 2000

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I pray that you get lots more rain and that it puts out the fires. May God bless you and keep you safe.

-- Debbie T in N.C. (rdtyner@mindspring.com), September 02, 2000.

Perhaps I oughta drive out there, and pick up my family on the way. Family curse entails that none of us can travel without bringing tons of monsoon-like rains with us. As a child, we moved from SD back to MO, my mother learning how to drive a stick all the way down with three kids, a dog, and a cat in the cab and we picked up the rain 5 miles out of town and drove in it the rest of the way down. Broke a multi-year drought. Last big vacation home (from NC to MO) after no rain for months, picked up ugly storm clouds 10 minutes into drive and drove in tornadic rains for 18 hours straight. Tornado within 20 miles of our (changing) overnight location every night for the entire two weeks we stayed. To break things up, last year they came out here, then we went back there with them. No rain since March, none, and then the family arrived-just in time for their first hurricane! (Dennis/FLoyd) Such fun. Rained all the way back to MO, of course. Got any extra rooms? We're thinking about charging counties to tour their area on a camping trip (no real walls between us and the weather should bring gouts of rain)!

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), September 02, 2000.

PS: Remember all that rain CA got just a year or so ago. They blamed it on El Nino, but just between you and me, my sister moved out there right about then. Scary, ain't it?

-- Soni (thomkilroy@hotmail.com), September 02, 2000.

So glad to hear it, Marci! Hope the rain keeps on a comin. Seems like God took a notice to our prayers. Here's to Him and some soggy weather! Thanks for letting us know.

-- Annie (mistletoe@earthlink.net), September 02, 2000.

Our ceek has been bone dry for 2 weeks, no water for the garden, the squash leaves were wilted down, the sunflowers, hanging their heads. We had a little rain yesterday, then on and off all night it poured. This morning the water was over the dam and even tho it has rained all day I got the irrigation pump going & we watered everything, things are looking up, including the sunflowers.

-- Hendo (OR) (redgate@echoweb.neth), September 02, 2000.

We had 6 days where we saw the sun in both the months of April and May. It wasn't much better in June and July either. It has been raining or gloomy for a very long time. Farmers around here never got to plant their corn and never did more than one haying if that. Many are going under this year because they can't afford to buy the corn for their cattle. Most of our own vegetables never ripened because it was so unusually cold and they didn't get much sun. Last year we had a drought that nearly knocked us out. Makes me wonder what's up. And what will happen next year?

-- evelyn Bergdoll (evandjim@klink.net), September 04, 2000.