The Rain Is On The Way
By Kareng
@kareng (80243)
United States
July 17, 2025 1:08pm CST
We have been outside trying to get ready for this storm. My husband has been on the tractor mowing for about an hour now. It will need mowing again as soon as the rain stops...
I have been feeding all the pets and giving water to them. I am fixing to go back outside and do some more of that and plant a couple of peach trees. Remember those trees that I bought at Market Day in April? Yeah, those!! We both keep forgetting about them. The holes are dug, so shouldn't take long. The first time I tried to plant them ants had taken over the hole that was dug, so had to treat. Then forgot about them again. So today is the day!!
Rain should be moving in around 3 pm today. As with a hurricane, the rain is moving in circular squalls. We are expecting some heavy rainfall this afternoon. Rain will continue on and off through Saturday according to the forecast. I'm hoping it is very light and ends early on Saturday since it is Market Day!
What are you doing today? Are you in the path of this storm coming in from the Gulf of America?
Photo Credit: Picabay, Public Domain
I have been feeding all the pets and giving water to them. I am fixing to go back outside and do some more of that and plant a couple of peach trees. Remember those trees that I bought at Market Day in April? Yeah, those!! We both keep forgetting about them. The holes are dug, so shouldn't take long. The first time I tried to plant them ants had taken over the hole that was dug, so had to treat. Then forgot about them again. So today is the day!!
Rain should be moving in around 3 pm today. As with a hurricane, the rain is moving in circular squalls. We are expecting some heavy rainfall this afternoon. Rain will continue on and off through Saturday according to the forecast. I'm hoping it is very light and ends early on Saturday since it is Market Day!
What are you doing today? Are you in the path of this storm coming in from the Gulf of America?
Photo Credit: Picabay, Public Domain10 people like this
9 responses
@2ndchances24 (12234)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
17 Jul
I hope that you got everything done that had to be done B-4 the weather hits
we are partly sunny & HOT for the time being but that could change in a few
hrs. like it has been doing this past few weeks.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
23 Jul
@2ndchances24 We are in for more this coming weekend starting on Friday. And I heard there is another system in the Gulf of America forming. Boo!
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@2ndchances24 (12234)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
22 Jul
@kareng we've had on & off rain the whole week
spurts here & there some gully washers some drizzles.
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@wolfgirl569 (135881)
• Marion, Ohio
17 Jul
Hope you got the trees planted. It should be cooler there now.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
22 Jul
@wolfgirl569 Yes, that is when I usually sell my pecan trees. I need to get some help over to get the greenhouse up!! It is still in the box! I see the doctor tomorrow so hoping this swelling issue gets addressed and on the way out the door!
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@wolfgirl569 (135881)
• Marion, Ohio
21 Jul
@kareng I have heard that fall is a good time to plant trees and bushes.
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@kaylachan (84823)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
17 Jul
Like you said, I think Florida is gotten all it's going to get. It didn't act like a tropical system from what I saw. We did get a sunshower today as we were on the way home from the store.
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@kaylachan (84823)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Jul
@kareng Then you got off easy.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
23 Jul
@kaylachan Yes, we did. There is already another area they are watching in the Gulf.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
21 Jul
We didn't get as much as they thought we would and Thursday was the last day of any real amount of rain due to the storm. Friday was all fine mist and light sprinkles, but all good. Back to the summer thunderstorm sessions now. It has been very hot here also. The approaching storm did bring a breeze for a couple of days though, that was very welcome.
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@DaddyEvil (174590)
• United States
17 Jul
I don't know... I don't know where the Gulf of America is... If you mean the Gulf of Mexico, no, we aren't in the path of those storms.
It has been storming here since sometime during the night. Storms here come from the West Coast and move across the country to the East...
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
21 Jul
@DaddyEvil Sorry but you are wrong and being stubborn about it!
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@DaddyEvil (174590)
• United States
21 Jul
@kareng No, it hasn't.. Ask anyone in any other country in the world and they'll tell you it's the gulf of mexico.
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@LindaOHio (222624)
• United States
18 Jul
I wish we could get some of that rain.
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@xstitcher (39047)
• Petaluma, California
17 Jul
Aw, man... send some rain this way, would you? 
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@FourWalls (86778)
• United States
17 Jul
It's raining around me, but we got about 60 drops at my house. We have a flood watch because that's the way these storms are supposed to be today: parked over one part of town, with another part of town not getting a drop.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
21 Jul
That is so odd. That always amazes me how I can run to town and it is storming there and sunshine at my house before I left. It is less than 10 miles to town. But we see where rain hits just a mile up the road and none at our house a lot of times too.
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