Rain, where art thou?

Post by **Jed** » August 8, 2012, 11:30 am

Nice steady rain all day in Nong Khai.

Wonderfully cool, grey, dark, and drizzly...

Let it rain!

Post by **pienmash** » August 8, 2012, 11:32 am

Jed wrote:Nice steady rain all day in Nong Khai.

Wonderfully cool, grey, dark, and drizzly...

Let it rain!

Lovely n wet in Udon too jed ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,steady prolonged rain just like back in blighty and playtime was cancelled . I love days like this ..when ive got know where to go that is.

Post by **stattointhailand** » August 8, 2012, 12:14 pm

Well that's about 16hrs now, and no sign of it stopping

Bet your real popular with the guys who play golf on Weds (much more and those that play on Thurs will be a bit peeved too

)

So what numbers are we all on for next week then Lee $\:D/$

Post by **stattointhailand** » August 8, 2012, 5:21 pm

17:00 and STILL RAINING

Now the In -Laws have descided it's just far too wet to do anything in the village so it's into Udon for a few days at our house

If your ears start burning Lee and you begin to feel these sudden sharp pains like someone sticking a needle into you ..............

Post by **Khun Paul** » August 8, 2012, 7:29 pm

At least now with Lee's help the local small farmers may just get a decent rice harvest, thats important too I think, chaps.

Post by **parrot** » August 8, 2012, 7:55 pm

Today's high temp (kilo 18) was 80F. We managed a half-inch of rain...ground is nice and wet, but the rain didn't stop me from doing all I needed to do during the day (shop, eat, piddle in the yard, catch a catfish). A few times I managed up a shiver, but then thought about the weather in Texas this week......99, 100, 100, 100, 99, and that warmed me right back up.

Post by **BigBubba** » August 8, 2012, 8:06 pm

parrot wrote:Today's high temp (kilo 18) was 80F. We managed a half-inch of rain...ground is nice and wet, but the rain didn't stop me from doing all I needed to do during the day (shop, eat, piddle in the yard, catch a catfish). A few times I managed up a shiver, but then thought about the weather in Texas this week......99, 100, 100, 100, 99, and that warmed me right back up.

John, you know there are medicines for this affliction

AND what do your neighbors think?

Post by **stattointhailand** » August 8, 2012, 8:27 pm

When Parrot's filled "The Yard" up, I've heard that Mash sells it (along with several other measures)

Post by **parrot** » August 8, 2012, 8:42 pm

Just to set the record straight, not that I never piddle in the yard, but today was spent piddling away my time.
And even when I do piddle in the yard, I don't have to worry about my neighbors, cause the closest one is at least 100 meters away.
piddle - definition of piddle by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus ...
www.thefreedictionary.com/piddle - CachedShare
v. pid·dled, pid·dling, pid·dles. v.tr. To use triflingly; squander: piddle away one's time. v.intr. 1. To spend time aimlessly; diddle. 2. Informal To urinate.

Post by **stattointhailand** » August 8, 2012, 10:11 pm

Your not one of the Toll"Piddle" martyrs then Parrot

Post by **douglas** » August 9, 2012, 9:24 am

Hi,
Should not have said that the rain is abating. 15 mins. later there was a downpour. Still raining now, and not stopped since 0200Hrs yesterday. I curse those that prayed for rain. Please say another one to make it stop.

Post by **Jed** » August 9, 2012, 9:56 am

Nice steady rain all night and through the morning in Nong Khai.

Wonderfully cool, grey, dark, and drizzly... Let it rain!

Finished Infinite Jest and got quoted by mash in the same day.

Things can get pretty exciting around here in the rain. Back to it.

Post by **BigBubba** » August 9, 2012, 10:22 am

At least there's no dust in the air!!!! My lungs are loving it!

Post by **pienmash** » August 9, 2012, 10:43 am

Opened the lids this morning ..........AND ITS STILL RAINING !!

Lovely n cool reminds me of a summers day in Scunny ,,,,,,,,,,and as Ronald Mcdonald says .......IM LOVIN IT

Post by **stattointhailand** » August 9, 2012, 11:21 am

As Lurkio's soothsayer would say ....

"Woe, Woe and thrice Woe .... 40 days and 40 nights I tell ye"

Post by **parrot** » August 9, 2012, 7:10 pm

I notice that Dallas, TX is supposed to be 109 today, Orlando FL 93, NYC 89, Los Angeles 91. Here we are living in a tropical climate and today's high was 76. It took some courage to take my outdoor cold-water shower today.....made easier because the well water is 77......warmer than the outside air.
It's sometimes difficult to explain to people back in the US why we choose to live here. .....strike that......it's not difficult to explain, but it's often difficult for people who don't live here to understand why we do. They'd all be asking why I didn't take a hot water shower inside the house. They don't get it!

An inch of slow-ground-soaking rain over the past 24 hours 18km outside of town.

Post by **parrot** » August 22, 2012, 7:01 pm

Given a choice of more rain or less, it'd probably be in everyone's best interests to do some rain dances at home to get the water levels in the city's main reservoir back to normal. According to the article in Thai Rath, the water levels are at 21%, normal for this time of the year is 60%.
http://www.thairath.co.th/content/region/285256

Post by **rjj04** » August 23, 2012, 5:24 am

Wow, somebody out there has a rain dance they need to get a patent on. Coincidence, me thinks not.

Post by **Brian Davis** » August 23, 2012, 6:41 am

Indeed. It seems every time I access this post, it's started to pee down.

Post by **FrazeeDK** » August 24, 2012, 9:50 am

it appears the monsoonal flow is pushing typhoons a bit further north than usual.. The last several have tagged the Philippines, tracked to southern China then hit northern Vietnam, northern Laos with us just getting the edge of the rainfall and usually just a lot of clouds... July and August are usually are two highest rainfall months http://www.tmd.go.th/en/province_stat.p ... mber=48354