Rainin' all over TV
 

Doozy of a storm....

Rain
 

OK - can we sing the "rain, rain go away" song. This is unreal this afternoon. Everything is drowning and the lanai is drenched. The thunder and lightning is "interesting" as well.

Raining in NY/NJ/PA and Puerto Rico,as per friends and family!

I love thunderstorms. Am I the only one?

I don't mind a thunderstorm but lately there have been an awful lot of them. Just getting tired of them I think. Plus..the rain today was insane.

That is a gorgeous pool/hot tub setup by the way. Love, love, love it!

Had heavy rain overnight into morning with occasional power blips here in Southern MD also. Sunny now.

Nope, I do too!!!:MOJE_whot:

I find that the Thunderstorms seem much worse now then when I was a child in Philly. Never saw bolts of lightening.

Before all of you get too depressed about the abundant rainfall check our water bill this month:MOJE_whot:

thank you. I love it too!

Rain rain rain

I, too, love this weather. Fill up those retention ponds to the top! Fill up the aquifers and the rivers ................

As for the water bill - mine is way down; but the snowbirds are watering on top of rain, rain, rain.

Thanks to the thunder, lightening and rain, the Ukulele Club decided to keep playing for an extra 30 minutes today at the Lake Miona Rec Center. Great time was had by all, especially MrBluSkies :-)

I went out with my umbrella and did the exact same number that Gene Kelly did in "Singing In The Rain". (And I ruined a good pair of shoes.)

LOL! wish we had a picture!:mademyday:

lowest water bill in three years

I thought every house in TV was built with an automatic water sensor system on the roof ...... to prevent the irrigation system from activating when there is an abundance of rain. (Although I haven't seen any evidence that the system actually works). One of the old timers can probably comment.

Being raised in Jax, Fl there is nothing better that watching a lightning storm over the Atlantic ocean from Jax Beach. Because it is usually far out in the Atlantic, you do not hear the thunder. You just get to enjoy the lightning strikes.

Z

Multiply that by 10 or 20 and you have the show.

Z

Rain Sensor
 

Not an old timer yet but the rain sensor has a cork in it. Over time it gets old and does not function correctly.

Also bugs can build webs, etc and cause it to malfunction .

Should check sensor at least once a year .

I have seen a lot of people have their rain sensors set to Bypass and not to Active. In short, what that means is the system is Bypassing the sensor and will continue to operate even if we are in the middle of a monsoon.
Also, the sensors need cleaning out as one poster said. The Hunter Pro C's (in the newer neighborhoods) have several round disc in the sensor which will clog from bugs, dirt, etc.. and cause the irrigation system to malfunction.
And I also love the storms here in Florida. I was out all afternoon today working and didn't think it was THAT bad.
I remember moving to Florida in August of 2004 and it was one hurricane after another that came up the Gulf coast. By the time Jeanne was approaching, I was ready to get out of Tampa, but I stayed and now I'm here. We are coming into the most active hurricane season folks ... a friend of mine once told me to have a lot of $1.00 bills handy in the event of a bad hurricane. Why, because if you need to buy supplies or food and the stores can't change larger bills, or ATM machines are down, you have money in small increments. That's for you newbies!

I moved here in October 2009. The summers of 2010 thru 2012 we had the occasional thunderstorm with not much rain. I don't mind the thunder and lightning, but I hate getting caught in a downpour.
So is this normal, day after day?

not old timer but less than three year old house sensor has not worked right since day one...was replaced at one year warranty and again in year and half...see how long this one lasts

Overall, I think that the weather has been great here for the past several months. Low nineties every day, mostly sunny with a brief mid to late afternoon shower or thunderstorm.

Yesterday was the first day that I can remember in a long time that was completely rained out. It felt like a day off.

I've lived in Florida since age 3. This is not normal. Usually we whine that it's not raining enough.
Several locations had record rainfall in July. Enough rain in areas to be a problem per the article below, and hope to heaven we don't have a hurricane...

Rainfall records for 2013 aren?t from tropical storms - South Florida Business Journal