The picture above is the total rainfall for Wednesday, September 10, 2008, here in eastern Tennessee. You’ll notice that Crossville got the most recorded rain — 1.64 inches.
We live six miles from downtown Crossville. We went into Crossville yesterday morning to do our weekly grocery shopping, and although it was cloudy, there was no rain. After we got back home, we started getting a little drizzle, and after a while our driveway was damp. Then we heard thunder! Finally, we were going to get some rain! We really need it.
It drizzled for a couple of hours and then stopped. I checked the rain gauge and it was damp, but that was about all — it didn’t even make it to 0.01 inches of rain. We were so disappointed.
And then Betsy noticed that there was a flood advisory for central Cumberland County (that’s us!!!). Then we learned about all that rain in Crossville.
It looks like we’ll have to do some watering in the yard today. All that rain — so near and yet so far!
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