Rain sucks!

[belfert]

Minnesota has been in a major drought this summer.  We went for a good month without more than a few sprinkles.

Now, the one weekend I want to do major work on my engine it rains steady for the entire weekend!  Yes, we needed a good soaking rain, but why not on the weekdays?     I don't have any good way to cover the engine bay so I can work in the rain.   I already pulled some of engine apart so I couldn't drive it anywhere enve if I could find a building to work in.

I suppose I can work on the interior, but I need a good running engine more than a nice interior.  I'm heading out on Sept 25th so the clock is ticking.

[white-eagle]

no actually, rain falls.  working in the rain sucks.

you sent the rain down here where we also needed it.  i started on changing out my electrical system shore power etc yesterday.  today, we have flood warnings in the area.  i choose not to work on my electrical system in the rain.  having my feet wet and handling power cords just doesn't seem to work well, nor can i see where the breaker panel and my wife are, in case they get together for insurance purposes.      Now i can't finish the work in my genset bay.  all because you griped to someone and sent it here.

actually, i'm going to go work at a customer site today, so i can work on the bus on tuesday. so nah, nah, nah (as gumpy would say).

[belfert]

I actually considered talking to my boss to see if I could work today so I could have Monday or Tuesday off, but it is supposed to rain those days too.

I suppose I can take out the radiator next weekend, but not sure how I will get the radiator to the radiator shop as I will be working 16 hour days during the week for 12 days starting Thursday.

I guess things could be worse.  At least I have a bus to work on and a job to support my bus.

[Songman]

Oh, what I would give to see some rain! It never rains here except from about early November until sometime in March... Not a drop outside those months. Average yearly rainfall is in the 6-7' range. And now with these fires dumping ash all over us it is awful. And being from GA, I would love a good thunderstorm...

But I can see how it could screw up a weekend's plans for working on the bus.

[belfert]

I lived in California for several years as a youth and do remember the lack of rain in the summer months, but also remember a lot of rain in the winter.

I lived there in the late 70s and hardly anyone had air conditioning then.  The temps mostly were not super hot and the air was dry.  By the late 70s in Minnesota most new houses had central air and central air is pretty much an expectation these days unless a house is in a older neighborhood.  The humidity quite iften makes it miserable in Minnesota during the summer.

[Ednj]

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Lightning killed my cousin this weekend.

[Dreamscape]

Ednj, Sorry to hear about your cousin. Now that sucks!

We are drowning here in Abilene TX. After the last storm went through it dumped a bunch of rain. Now they are evacuating parts of Abilene because of creeks overflowing banks. This is unheard of. We are safe so far in Hawley, about 11 miles north. It's funny because when I flew in yesterday it wasn't raining, nothing today either. Just the leftover water runoff that is causing havoac. This year has been the wettest in many years, my father-in-law says he can't remember this much rain in the 80 years he has been alive.
belfert, Sorry you can't work on your project this weekend. Hopefully it will dry out soon for you.

Happy Trails,

Paul

Dreamscape

[Jerry32]

It normally doesn't rain here until at least the middle of Sept but it was raining a steady drizzle today.  I was trying to do some of work on the bus outside but got too wet. Jerry

[Songman]

I lived in California for several years as a youth and do remember the lack of rain in the summer months, but also remember a lot of rain in the winter.

I lived there in the late 70s and hardly anyone had air conditioning then.  The temps mostly were not super hot and the air was dry.  By the late 70s in Minnesota most new houses had central air and central air is pretty much an expectation these days unless a house is in a older neighborhood.  The humidity quite iften makes it miserable in Minnesota during the summer.

Sounds like you didn't live in the Central Valley, Brian. My father-in-law has a 2.5 million dollar house with no A/C. Of course, it rarely ever reaches 80 in the summer. Usually it is around 70, and not much colder than that in winter. But here in Bakersfield the summer temps get up to about 108+. A/C is a must! And I have to run my sprinklers twice a day just to keep my lawn alive. A far cry from the way I grew up in GA. I told my wife, anyone who had a sprinkler system back home was just showing off!

[belfert]

I lived down in Placentia in Orange county.  I was only like 7 years old back then, but I don't remember it getting above 90s in the summer.  Most everybody had lawn covers that could tolerate heat and little water.  I remember my dad tearing up the lawn and planting bluegrass, but I believe he got transferred back to Minnesota before the bluegrass got established.

I finally gave up on working on my bus for today as the rain was screwing everything up.  We needed to go underneath to fish wires and neither of us wanted to go outside and get wet.  It did dry up enough at one point that I got some work done on the engine.  As soon as I got out the compressor and impact it started to rain again.