Dark, Wet, and Early
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25797)
United States
August 22, 2018 5:28am CST
My missus had to get up at 4am because she has to present at plant meetings today and the first is at 6am when 3rd shift gets off work and first shift comes in. The next will be at 2pm when first shift leaves and second shift comes on. Fortunately, they don't have a third meeting at 10pm.
I usually go back to sleep for a little while when she has these plant meeting mornings but this morning decided to get up and do some myLotting after doing my PT exercises.
The pups are confused by me being up and they think it is time for them to go outside for a bit before I leave for work. My missus already let them out when she got up, and I fed them when I first came downstairs. I will wait until just before I leave for work to let them out again, so it won't be as long for them until I get home this afternoon.
The rain I was hearing earlier has moved on and it looks like we may finally have a couple of dry days. We've had so much rain over the last week that on her walk yesterday my missus saw a crawfish walking down the side of the road. This sight weirded her out a little. At first she thought it was a giant bug.
Have you ever noticed strange sights like her road traveling crawfish after an unusual spell of weather where you live?
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@Blondie2222 (28610)
• United States
25 Aug 18
We've had quite the rain for the past week also and lots of flooding everywhere. I'm glad for the next week there is no rain in the forecast. I don't miss getting up at 4am for work, I however do get up at that time to use the bathroom lol. I hope you weren't too tired at work with getting up earlier than normal.
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@Blondie2222 (28610)
• United States
26 Aug 18
@DWDavis yeah i can imagine. It stayed dry here this weekend also - looked like rain today but nothing yet.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
26 Aug 18
@Blondie2222 We are having another beautiful dry sunny day today, making 3 in a row. It is also relatively cool out, for eastern NC in August, so I am able to work out in the sun room today while the pups play outside.
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
22 Aug 18
I've moved to a new area of the country so I'm not always sure what is usual or unusual. One day I looked at the water from the Main Street bridge and just stood and looked...and looked. Silly me, never thought to pull out my camera....I saw a seal.
Yesterday travelling south we experience a few downpours along the I79 and 19. Last night we went for coffee in Beckley, WV on foot....came out to find that the sky had opened up again!
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
22 Aug 18
@DWDavis the locals told me later that the tide often brought seals up into the river.
The seal probably wondered why I didn't take his picture.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
22 Aug 18
@Morleyhunt We have a similar thing happen here down at the coast near where my folks live. When the tide comes in on the Neuse River we sometimes have pods of Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins come upriver. This is a recent thing.
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@wolfgirl569 (135583)
• Marion, Ohio
22 Aug 18
That would startle you to see it there.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
22 Aug 18
That crawfish better make it to some wet because he is looking dry there.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Aug 18
I've seen an occasional walking catfish after heavy rains, but really nothing more unusual than that. Although I guess there's really nothing usual about a fish that crawls across a road! haha
