mattie g

@H2O...hoping the weather will hold off so we can get Relay Carnival in tonight. Not a huge fan of the pool hosting it, so I hope we can get in and out pretty quickly. Big meet for us this weekend. Likely that the winner wins our division, but in any case both of us are almost certain to move up next season (for good or ill).

Pouring. Drought busted.

I have a feeling it's going to consolidate and intensify just as it hits Rt 15, and that will be the event for the day.

Usual suspects on Ignore.

It was pretty nice at our place for the first 45 minutes or so, then the clouds thinned and the sun popped out with a vengeance. Our deck gets zero shade during most of the day, and the timers have the sun directly in their faces, so they were getting blasted. The team rep area normally has a canopy, but we decided against putting it up to give the live stream a better view. It got toasty. As for the team, we're super proud of all the kids right now. They're really been working hard, and we've had some serious time drops in the last week. We also just finished a string of four straight home meets, so all the main volunteers could use the extended weekend for a rest!

Might have to fire up the drought thread. Ground is pretty hard in these parts.

The bend in Burke Road is around the corner from me. It floods so easily, but it does recede fairly quickly.

MBY is better than YBY

Per CoCoRaHs, the station less than 1/2 mile away has had 6.55” of rain in the last 30 days. Burke drought busted.

Dude…most of us have struggled to get snow the last six years.

That train really ramped up the totals IMBY last night, as it hadn’t rained terribly much during the day and evening compared to some others. Closest CoCoRaHs put me at 2.82” for the event.

Riding that train in Burke right now. Ugh.

It does. And I’m sitting here not at all lamenting being on the edge of that training running through DC. F that.

The previous couple pages have been painful reading, but I guess the woes and complaints have paid off.

Drought cancel?

Reading the severe thread…sounds like it’s time to fire up the drought thread again!

I hear you. The pool we swam at was littered with leaves, but there’s not much to be done about it, I guess. Sorry to hear that the relays didn’t go your way, but I suppose losing an exciting meet is better than losing an unexciting meet!

Definitely the weather. I just checked the NVSL site (stalker), and I think I know which meet was yours. Any meet that comes down to relays and ends like that would be awesome (if you win )!

The pool we swam at was really shaded, so it was pretty damn chilly! Our opponents were unfortunately dealing with a lot of COVID cases, so it ended up not being much of a contest. They were great hosts, though, so we all had a good time! A lot of our kids had uncomfortable swims, but they pushed though it, which is really all we could ask for!

Yeah...first A Meet of the season is going to be a little chilly!

School's Out party tonight at the pool. Perfect weather for it!

It’s a rough existence out there in Stephens City.

Hoping it’s just some showers on Saturday, but we’re still planning to put up canopies so the time cards can actually be written on and are legible. My main concern now is just the kids staying warm. I probably should t worry, but I’m a softie.

All of our thoughts and prayers paid off! 0.20” here, but we didn’t need any more than that, so I’m good…

We have swim team time trials starting at 9:00 am on Saturday, so it looks like we’ll be swimming in the rain as long as there’s no thunder. Wouldn’t mind this thing being a dud since I’ve had over 2” of rain in the last two weeks, but I understand that others who are suffering from the drought would like some steady rains.