Bad Weather in the USA

[sundial]

I sandbagged for a week in Quincy, Illinois, during the 500-year flood of the Mississippi in 1992 -- this type of thing is absolutely devastating.

We moved from MO before that flood. It was really a sight! Can you believe that Dutchtown was under water yet again this spring??

[mimitabby]

We moved from MO before that flood. It was really a sight! Can you believe that Dutchtown was under water yet again this spring??

500 years goes fast!

[emily_in_nc]

last week was the coldest ever on record week in June for Seattle.

And the hottest in NC (four 100+ days in a row -- in freaking June! It's not even officially summer yet!)

Mother Nature must be very, very mad at us.

[Trek420]

Mother Nature must be very, very mad at us.

and she bats last

[Tuckervill]

And now she's beating up on Boy Scouts:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/0...her/index.html

Karen

[Trekhawk]

Wow is really does sound like the weather has gone crazy in so many places.
I hope things start to settle down for you all
Keep safe.
TH

[mimitabby]

And now she's beating up on Boy Scouts:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/0...her/index.html

Karen

oh how horrible!

[janeho]

Your weather even made the evening news in the UK this week.
There was some film footage of a whole house been washed away and swept downstream in Wisconsin

[jeannierides]

We finally got some relief yesterday after days of record-breaking 100+ temps in VA!
All the flooding and storms are crazy scary! I'm glad all you gals are ok!

[Thorn]

A year of odd weather....record snowfall totals last winter and now record rainfalls for the month of June. A week or so back I read about 10" of rain in Indiana and thought, "how does the land possibly cope with that much rain in a short amount of time". Last weekend, we found out. It doesn't.

I'm counting my blessings that I live on the top of a hill and my sump pump is holding. That is, I live at the peak of the subcontinental divide where the water either goes to the Mississippi or to the Great Lakes. Those living down the hill in both directions and down stream aren't faring as well. I feel bad for them and another inch or so of rain coming.

As a cyclist, reading the road closures is like reading past cue sheets. A lot of those beautiful roads are under water or under threat. No matter how far society progresses technologically, Mother Nature likes to remind us that she is still in control. OK, I think we got the message.

[emily_in_nc]

Today we had dense smoke in the central part of NC, blown in from a huge wildfire down at the coast that they said could burn for months! I had to skip my mtb ride after work due to code red air quality (cough cough, it was horrible). Nothing like what folks are dealing with in the midwest flooding, though, or those poor boy scouts. Really tragic.

Emily