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Monday, April 25, 2011

Rain. Again.

The puddles/ponds on the course were starting to shrink, so it had to rain again.  We haven't gotten a whole lot of rain today, but it was enough to keep everything wet and we are supposed to be getting a significant amount of rain tonight.  Let's hope that it misses us. 

I like to get my forecasts from weather.com because they tend to be more conservative.  The local news stations could be reporting that it's going to 95 degrees one day in the summer and weather.com will forecast 87 degrees, and the 87 is usually closer to reality.  This goes for rainfall too.  It's very rare that weather.com puts a large measurement of rain in their forecasts, and for tonight it says, "rainfall possibly over one inch."  I hate it when it says that.

When we get large quantities of rain in a short amount of time, the creek/ponds that runs from the twelfth hole to the eleventh hole comes out of it's banks and creates a huge mess.  The amount of garbage that flows through that waterway during a large rain event is just incredible, or disgusting, depending on how you want to look at it.  I vote for the latter.

The mess left from Fridays rainfall.  And yes, that's a piece of a telephone pole.
 Hopefully, my next post will be talking about how all the rain missed us, and that everything is drying nicely.  In the meantime, Nittany says GO HAWKS!

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