{"id":4251,"date":"2011-05-16T07:33:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2011-05-16T07:33:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:33:52","slug":"rain-rain-go-away-pretty-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/05\/16\/rain-rain-go-away-pretty-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, rain go away (pretty please?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me start by saying that I have it great.\u00a0 Yes, the pump house that sluices water to my home is flooded, which means that (ironically) I don’t have water in my taps.<\/p>\n

And yes, I have two leaks in my roof…that I know of.\u00a0 And yes, I spent two soggy weekend days gardening in a shower of rain that sometimes blew sideways.<\/p>\n

And yes, all this precipitation is piled on top of a long, cold, trying winter.\u00a0 Is May the new November?\u00a0 I sure hope not.<\/p>\n

The sad part is that many of our neighbors have it much, much worse.<\/p>\n

The Montreal Gazette <\/a>is reporting that farmers along the Richelieu River are wrestling with carp that have taken up residence in their flooded fields.\u00a0 You know it’s bad when you need a scarefish more than a scarecrow.<\/p>\n

From the St. Lawrence Valley to the Champlain Valley, hundreds of farmers are in much the same predicament.\u00a0 There is water and mud everywhere.<\/p>\n

And then there are the homeowners, from Moriah to Keene Valley, who are literally watching their homes slide away as soggy, rainswollen hillsides turn into yogurt.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most trying thing of all is the sheer duration of this mess.\u00a0 The first flash floods came the last week of April.\u00a0 We’re halfway through May and there’s no end in sight.<\/p>\n

Once good weather returns, Lake Champlain will require weeks to disgorge all that water.<\/p>\n

I like to think that we Northerners are tough and hardy.\u00a0 Now we also have to be patient (not my forte) and keep whatever shreds of humor that are still intact.<\/p>\n

So here’s my consolation prize.\u00a0 It was so darn soggy this weekend that I didn’t have to mow the lawn.\u00a0 That’s not much of a victory, but I’ll take it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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