[Alf]

Originally Posted by Maru

Thanks all

The rain here is serious business right now and I've gotten like 5 flash flood emergency alerts in one hour from local officials, so probably fireworks will be cancelled/delayed this year... on the bright side my dogs will rest much easier tonight not being stressed out by the wonderful sound of patriotism going off until the wee hours of night... we did celebrate early yesterday while we were both off and barbequed some burgers/hotdogs and some neighbors set some stuff off then...

You're making us all jealous here in the UK, what we'd give for a drop of rain right now!

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Alf

You're making us all jealous here in the UK, what we'd give for a drop of rain right now!

Yeah in a way it's a good thing, less fire risk with the fireworks. It's been extra hot this year, but we've been fortunate to avoid a drought, and hopefully enough of that energy in the Gulf will be used up before hurricane season starts to really kick in... last year we would've all paid people to take some of our rain... We got 50" in some spots (total) here across several days during Harvey (2017)

My husband is driving to work and he may have to turn around... freeway is flooded out on one side and they're redirecting people to drive the opposite end wrong direction (including him)... 8" inches dropped in that spot within the past few hours...