Welp, she's off now.

[conuly]

The forecast has changed a few times, though it's currently back to being pretty grim - rain, rain, and more rain.

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[jessie_c]

Oh, that's where it's gone. Can you send it back to the Left Coast please?

[conuly]

My gosh, I'm trying! I keep singing the rain rain go away song, but so far nothing. Does anybody know a supervillain with a weather machine?

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Or Oro to take the rain out to the fire crews.

[flexagon]

My favorite rain song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh8h5gQrtZk

[jessie_c]

Oh, it's rain songs is it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ4uzD_hLds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIGFb9iJBsk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYrFFyY0O4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDbAtWpoA6k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhwsd0CyZ0o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cdz8mXyWbk

[flexagon]

Haha, nice, thanks. I knew all but one: Steam Powered Giraffe was new to me. :-)

[jessie_c]

SPG is a fun group. That video is not as fun as the "live" ones like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE01dViWqAM

[moem]

It's pretty grim here, too, albeit in a different way... dry, dry and drier still. As a country, we're not equipped to cope with that! We're equipped to deal with water, not with a lack of it.

We've been asked not to use too much water for watering our gardens etc. I keep a bucket in the shower now, use it to catch the cold water when the tap is opened, and give the resulting water to the garden plant that manages to look most thirsty in the morning.

[conuly]

And I thought in the Netherlands you had everything covered.

If you're very crafty you'll collect your handwashing water to flush the toilet. I keep wanting to set up a graywater system for our bathroom, but that'd involve a bucket and with dogs it doesn't seem a brilliant idea.

[moem]

Nope, not everything... just the things that happen regularly. It's the dryest summer since 1976.

Well, a while ago I was interested in setting up a system such as this... but there's no good way to do that with a built-in cistern, and we're not going to disrupt our nice new bathroom for a few weeks of drought. I just stuck those tiles on and I'm not about to rip them off again any day soon.

A system that uses rainwater (which we normally have plenty of) for flushing may be in the cards.