When it rains it pours

Well not usually in Green River. Usually in Green River when it rains it will be over with in a few seconds and sunny and dry before you can blink. But not yesterday (Aug 1). It was crazy. The rain just kept coming and coming, thunder and lightening, wind, no hail luckily. It lasted for well over an hour maybe close to 2. As things started to get worse and worse I got everyone to the living room to say a prayer (that is a long standing tradition in my family, to pray away the bad weather). It was scary. The temp dropped from 81 to 62 in a matter of 25 minutes. We were lucky and only had a bit of water in our basement. Some people around town had lots of flooding. Our friends across the alley had an unexpected shed planted in their backyard. Here are some pictures from our yard.

The water pooling up around our apple tree and across at the neighbors.

Here is our neighbor Bob's house. His corn was so nice and tall and all got knocked over.
Good thing we don't have a dog or he would be swimming.

This is by our carport.

Our bedraggled garden-surprisingly it wasn't that squishy today when we went to pick tomatoes and cucumbers.

Our front/side lawn by our driveway.

In the morning, there wasn't even a puddle anywhere in our yard.

The total rainfall.

We don't have a lot of humidity here, but the last week it has been so humid and we have had lots of thunderstorms. Our house feels so sticky, our carpet feels damp, you get out of the shower and are sweatier than when you got in, and our swampcooler is begging to be turned off but we can't stand our house without it. Throw in the fact that our water smells like algae-it feels like we are living next to a swamp (the mosquitos are bad enough to be in the middle of a swamp that is for sure.) Oh well, thanks to these 2 inches of rain the humidity won't be getting any better but things will be growing that is for sure.