> SB> was flooding last night in a lot of places, but by now it's pretty
  > SB> much all gone, sopped up by the wetlands, and washed out with the 
tide.
RA>The trouble with those downpours is that they don't do much good.  They
  >run off and don't sink in.  A drought really depletes subsoil moisture,
  >and it takes a lot of slow, gentle rain to replace it.
That's true, although the 15 inches was better than no rain.  The wet
lands, at least, are back to looking swampy.  Some of the local swamps
were beginning to look like putting greens.
A lot of shrubs and small bushes died this summer, however.  They
couldn't take the drought and the heat.  I'm a little amazed at the
amount of brown I see while driving around.
RA>They seem to have decided that Wisconsin is a lot further north than it
  >actually is.  We've only had three days over 90 f this summer.  Much of
  >August it has been in the 60's and 70's.  At least it saves on the
Aren't they saying that, with this large El Nino forming in the Pacific,
that we will all be having a warm, wet winter?
                           Sondra
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