Need the rain but...

[JJsqueeze]

It sure would have been nice to duck out early today, gets the girls out of school and catch Tennessee playing out here in San Diego, when is someone going to realize we need some domes out here to make sure this kind of tragedy doesn't happen on the 10 days a year it rains.

 

[fastpitchdad8]

Be happy you aren't here. Coldest winter since I believe '61. Calling for 6-12 more inches of snow sunday and Monday. ugh

 

[YOCOACH]

Be happy you aren't here. Coldest winter since I believe '61. Calling for 6-12 more inches of snow sunday and Monday. ugh

Not to mention a wind chill factor of -20 this morning.

 

[SoCal_Dad]

Definitely a bummer - I just got an email that our first HS games of the season tomorrow have been cancelled. I've also been looking forward for a month to watching some college games at CSUF today and I doubt that's going to happen.

As far as domes go, I don't see them being used during the summer in other areas of the country where they get a lot of rain. They build their fields to drain and they do a lot of field work after it rains to get their games in. They'd laugh at how little rain it takes out here to cancel games.

 

[3'sDad]

I remember a few years ago a friend was here from SoCal with his DD for the Team NJ event. We had a typical June early evening thunderstorm - 30 minute downpour followed by the sun coming out to raise the humidity just a bit higher.

We came out after the downpour and he asked me, very seriously " Do you think we'll play tomorrow because of all this rain?" I thought he was kidding, he was very serious given that this .25-.50 inch of rain we had in the downpour would throw a big monkey wrench in field conditions where his DD played typically.

 

[Amy in AZ.]

Generally, if I have to have the heat on in the house and car, it is too cold for tryouts.

 

[JJsqueeze]

I remember a few years ago a friend was here from SoCal with his DD for the Team NJ event. We had a typical June early evening thunderstorm - 30 minute downpour followed by the sun coming out to raise the humidity just a bit higher.

We came out after the downpour and he asked me, very seriously " Do you think we'll play tomorrow because of all this rain?" I thought he was kidding, he was very serious given that this .25-.50 inch of rain we had in the downpour would throw a big monkey wrench in field conditions where his DD played typically.

The rest of the country just does not understand what is going on out here right now....WATER IS FALLING FROM THE SKY!!! Aren't I supposed to put chains on my car or something? What am I supposed to do about footwear? I keep slipping around on my flip flops. They should create some sort of device to shield you from the rain when you have to go out in it, something like a portable lightweight roof.

 

[Cannonball]

My dd is headed to Tennessee tomorrow to play. On Sunday, we are getting somewhere between 6 and 9 inches of snow. One news stations says we are getting a foot but I don't believe that. Then, just South of us is getting an inch of ice. That ice will cover all of Southern Illinois and a part of Western Kentucky. Our school parking lot has snow 14 feet high piled up from the constant clearing of the parking lot and the many snows. If we get the 9 inches, we will jump in to the 2nd most snow in history for our area one forecaster said. Temperature on Monday is very low 20s. DD's first home softball game is Thursday and her college is only 30 minutes away from us.

 

[Greenmonsters]

The rest of the country just does not understand what is going on out here right now....WATER IS FALLING FROM THE SKY!!! Aren't I supposed to put chains on my car or something? What am I supposed to do about footwear? I keep slipping around on my flip flops. They should create some sort of device to shield you from the rain when you have to go out in it, something like a portable lightweight roof.

Remain calm. Seek shelter in an interior closet or room, assume the crash position, and put on a personal flotation device. Remain there until you get a text in a few days to confirm its safe to come out.

 

[JJsqueeze]

Remain calm. Seek shelter in an interior closet or room, assume the crash position, and put on a personal flotation device. Remain there until you get a text in a few days to confirm its safe to come out.

Now that sounds like good advice. I wonder if going into the closet will be national news though...we'll see.