New England heavy rain event Sept 5/6 2022. Does this end the summer drought?

[weathafella]

44 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

i had a somewhat similar experience in Huntington Beach when I was 14. was surfing having a great day. was getting tired so i was heading to the shore. got off my board to walk in the waist-deep water and got washed out by a huge wave. as i was getting up, got hit again and started getting pulled out/under and my quads started cramping up. i literally could not get up. fortunately my sister and a couple friends were there to haul me out. if not for them, i would probably still be out there

Yikes!   Great surf on those beaches though.  I’m glad you’re still here!

[SJonesWX]

13 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Yikes!   Great surf on those beaches though.  I’m glad you’re still here!

thanks-me too!

[Ginx snewx]

2 hours ago, radarman said:

much, much scarier actually.   15' bodysurfing is insane, and we were out in Bill, but not out where those bad boys were breaking.  Even the smaller ones had the pucker factor and the scorpion risk.

 

Bill best ever, flippers were essential. Huge huge pucker factor

[tamarack]

3 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Damn. Yea I have been washing machined a couple of times. Also slammed face first into the sand. Got back on the horse everytime. The rush of adrenaline on top of a 15 foot wave seeing past the dunes into the coastal ponds is comparable to dropping into a double black diamond.  

Never did a faceplant but several times got top-of-head rammed into the sand.  Fortunately my head is hard; was tested at age 5 when I fell backwards 5+ feet on a rocky slope and landed head-first (right side of forehead) on one of the rocks.  Friend said I bled "like the Red Sea."  And I'd chicken out on 15-footers, even when I was 18.  Six was about my speed.

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, tamarack said:

Never did a faceplant but several times got top-of-head rammed into the sand.  Fortunately my head is hard; was tested at age 5 when I fell backwards 5+ feet on a rocky slope and landed head-first (right side of forehead) on one of the rocks.  Friend said I bled "like the Red Sea."  And I'd chicken out on 15-footers, even when I was 18.  Six was about my speed.

Head wounds are the worst! 

[codfishsnowman]

On 9/7/2022 at 8:41 AM, scoob40 said:

That total at CEF is bogus. Western Mass News on Liberty Street at the Chicopee line recorded about 3.7. At my house about a mile from CEF as the crow fliees it was 3.83". i wouldn't give a nickel for their readings. Half the time thier AWOS is offline and the other half its incorrect.

Ok that's even better then