On 8 Mar 2008 04:34:02 GMT, Jim Yanik wrote:


well,its raining pretty hard right now,has been for a few hours.
But no power outages yet.

what cracks me up is the local news weather guy saying we're "getting
pounded".
It's just rain,not even a hard downpour.
If it rains REALLY hard,the retention pond overflows,and the parking lot
floods.

"News" now, especially tv, wiill do lots of things to make it sound
like something interesting is happening. You're in Florida. One thing
I"ve notice in Baltimroe is the use of the present progressive tense,
even for things that happened hours ago. Even for so called hard
news, the police are raiding an office of so and so, for something
that happened at 4 in the afternoon, even when it is now 10PM.
Because I heard it on the evening news too.

And a few weeks ago,they were bitching about the drought.
This rain beats having forest fires and all that smoke in the air. 8-)

I hope Atlanta and Lake Lanier get some good rain.THEY need it bad.