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Remember the Sun?

The sun made a brief appearance yesterday afternoon. Good thing because people around here had just started paging Noah. Holy moly. It started raining – hard – Friday afternoon and continued raining – hard – until Saturday noonish. Needless to say anything that could be wet, was. The Kinderhook Creek was at a level I’d only seen once or twice before. One of those times was after a 6″ August rainy spurt.

The good news in all this? Racing was cancelled at New Lebanon Valley Speedway because of water on the track. The 11 o’clock news told the tale — 7 FEET of water on the track. hehehehe. Build a bowl and it will fill.

Thankfully the power did not go out, the pump and dehumidifier kept running and there was only a minimum of water seepage.

It was a good day for some homemade soup. The Soup Lady will be glad to hear that I made your basic beef soup – beef, onions, garlic, carrots, celery, a few potatoes and some barley. Turned out nice and tasty if I do say so myself. And since the store had very nice beef hunks at a very low price — it was especially tasty. Always something to look for, if you’re willing to cube the meat yourself.

From today’s Berkshire Eagle:

The Friday-Saturday rainfall nearly equaled the average rainfall for the month of September, 3.52 inches.

Heavy rainfall earlier this month has brought the grand total to 5.74 inches, with 12 days still to be recorded.

Total rainfall measured since July 1, nearly 17.5 inches, has smashed a 65-year summer season record at the Pittsfield airport

And from the “Times-Useless“:

Flash flooding forced the evacuation Saturday of more than two dozen mobile homes in Ravena as the remnants of Hurricane Ivan deluged the Northeast.

Three to 5 inches of rain pounded parts of the Albany area and south of it, according to the National Weather Service. Throughout the Capital Region, emergency workers helped people with water-logged basements and properties. No injuries had been reported Saturday evening.