Rain Ranting Thread

[southerncomfort]

Stopped raining here about 9.30pm last night. Started again about 8am, although last night's water had receded somewhat thank goodness.

My chest is awful today after getting soaked through 4 times yesterday. Had to put a wet coat back on at one point as I'd run out of dry coats.

Mr SC, who is in to sailing, is adamant that Regatta make the best waterproof coats. I'm off to have a Google as my Trespass coat let me down very badly yesterday!

 

[GrassChop]

Stopped raining here about 9.30pm last night. Started again about 8am, although last night's water had receded somewhat thank goodness.

My chest is awful today after getting soaked through 4 times yesterday. Had to put a wet coat back on at one point as I'd run out of dry coats.

Mr SC, who is in to sailing, is adamant that Regatta make the best waterproof coats. I'm off to have a Google as my Trespass coat let me down very badly yesterday!

I've got a Regatta puffer coat which is definitely waterproof! I'll see if I can find it online.

ETA: It was this one but it is cheaper on other websites https://www.regatta.com/womens-rurie-baffled-jacket-black/

 

[southerncomfort]

I've got a Regatta puffer coat which is definitely waterproof! I'll see if I can find it online.

ETA: It was this one but it is cheaper on other websites https://www.regatta.com/womens-rurie-baffled-jacket-black/

Fab, thank you!

 

[GrassChop]

Fab, thank you!

No worries! It's lovely and warm too. I got absolutely drenched in it recently and was dry underneath so it definitely can withstand being out in a continuous downpour!

 

[GreyDot]

Stopped raining here about 9.30pm last night. Started again about 8am, although last night's water had receded somewhat thank goodness.

My chest is awful today after getting soaked through 4 times yesterday. Had to put a wet coat back on at one point as I'd run out of dry coats.

Mr SC, who is in to sailing, is adamant that Regatta make the best waterproof coats. I'm off to have a Google as my Trespass coat let me down very badly yesterday!

Regatta have a sale on at the moment. I have bought things I never thought I needed just earlier today

https://www.regatta.com/sale/

 

[lynz88]

Stopped raining here about 9.30pm last night. Started again about 8am, although last night's water had receded somewhat thank goodness.

My chest is awful today after getting soaked through 4 times yesterday. Had to put a wet coat back on at one point as I'd run out of dry coats.

Mr SC, who is in to sailing, is adamant that Regatta make the best waterproof coats. I'm off to have a Google as my Trespass coat let me down very badly yesterday!

If you can afford it, Mountains Equipment have amazing rain gear. The good ones aren't cheap though. For the yard I live in my Stierna though.

 

[lynz88]

It is a bit worrying that we're already being hit by this quantity of rain and we're not even in October yet. Hoping it's a one off and it will dry up for another month or two

Was just saying this to someone today as well and looking at the forecast, it isn't going to get any better either

 

[Dam1]

All I can say is aaaaargh !!
Its been chucking it down all day. Field flooded - feels like deja vue. So much for ' cooler and drier '. Feels like the middle of winter already.Where's global warming when you need it - same place as a hot flush when it's cold (that NEVER happens)
Rant over and breathe .....

 

[94lunagem]

All I can say is aaaaargh !!

Yep! I’m trying to eke another couple of weeks out of my summer field but it’s getting wetter by the day, gates are a boggy mess and I never get any real mud! I had water actually running down the hill last week. Had my yard 15 years and last winter and at the moment are as bad as I’ve ever known it.

 

[Dam1]

Yes - mine is, I think, worse than its ever been - usually get some standing water but today it looks like a complete lake. It stopped for about an hour but its chucking down again now - words fail me really - just have to suck it up and hope it gets better but it's not looking likely x

 

[setterlover]

I agree aarghhhhh Just went out with the dogs on one of our hay fields to let them have a run and the heavens opened I am soaked they are soaked and the two bath towels I used to run them down are also soaked this is wearing as much as it is worrying.I am going to have to put everything on the heated airer again!!!
I added another row of mud mats to the front of the pole barn as even the hardcore is getting a thin slippery skim on it .Have to say I'm very impressed with them they are expensive but they work.
Can't say a fancy a whole winter of this it's steadily wearing me down.
We have 5 lovely days now this deluge nothing lifts your spirits like a dry day and nothing drags you down like an horrendous day of downpours.

 

[Dam1]

And now to add insult to injury we've got a blimmin heron in the field/lake !!!@@

 

[Smitty]

I think I'm to blame. For years I have wanted a camper van, got an old, rusty, cheap one Feb 2023 and it's seems to have done nothing but rain or blow howling gales since.

Fear not, it will rust away soon and lovely weather will be back. Then we can all moan that we need rain...

 

[Miss_Millie]

Today has been diabolical here, have gone from relatively dry ground to a lake in the field and mud everywhere. I am already dreading this Winter!

 

[JFTDWS]

And now to add insult to injury we've got a blimmin heron in the field/lake !!!@@

I had a pair of egrets on mine the other week.

I’ve now moved them (the horses, not the egrets!) to another field. Lots of grass and no mud, but for how long, if it stays like this?!

 

[maya2008]

First time the summer field has had a puddle - so that’s officially worse than last winter ! The two who are coming in at night virtually ran in - I don’t blame them in this!!

 

[spotty_pony2]

Mine are in tonight as it’s started raining but it’s been lovely here for almost a week. everything was starting to dry up, and I have moved mine to a different field so now have the problem of too much grass currently so they come in in to have time away from the grass - this is in a bid to make my hay last longer if we are going to be in for another awful winter!

 

[Slightlyconfused]

And we have a small stream running through our gateway from the field next door. Puddles on the hill walkway up to get the horses which is astro turfed

If it was middle to end of november the fields would most likely be closed

 

[tda]

Just watching a programme on tv "The Great Flood of 1968"

 

[Spotherisk]

Just watching a programme on tv "The Great Flood of 1968"

Me too.

 

[setterlover]

Yes me too though I can't remember being away of it at the time

 

[Dave's Mam]

Just got home from a week away. Back to a depressing deluge.

 

[SEL]

My fields are end of Feb level of wetness

 

[Highmileagecob]

Trying to look on the bright side - we had the most beautiful complete, double rainbow yesterday evening. Hope it's a good sign......

 

[Miss_Millie]

My fields are end of Feb level of wetness

Mine too, it's staggering how much water has fallen in the past 48 hours.

 

[southerncomfort]

My fields are end of Feb level of wetness

Same.

I don't know if anyone has seen this before, but the volume of water is such that it's pushing the earth up in to 'bubbles' or small mounds, which then have water bursting out of them.

 

[Muddy unicorn]

It’s been relentless here (NE) for the last couple of days. Thankfully we had some drainage work done in one of the summer fields which was so bad earlier in the year I was considering turning the worst patch into a pond but so far (grasping huge planks of wood) it’s holding up well. The horses have come in for a few hours today to have a break - they’re happily munching hay and having a snooze in the dry.

 

[SEL]

Same.

I don't know if anyone has seen this before, but the volume of water is such that it's pushing the earth up in to 'bubbles' or small mounds, which then have water bursting out of them.

I've got worms all over the paddock this morning which only happens when it's completely saturated. I wonder if its bugs making the mounds you're seeing - no air in the soil any more.

 

[Welly Boot]

Yesterdays rain was crazy! Roads flooded so quickly although horses not fussed about being stood on flooding fields.... I did NOT see a forecast that it was going to be that bad... police & ambulance sirens for most of the afternoon & night.... yet all calm again this morning.... makes me want to move abroad.... I'm sick of winter already and it's not got going yet...

 

[GrassChop]

I had to drive through a river, that was once a road, to get to the lake, which was once a field, last night. I got absolutely saturated and, thankfully, my car seat covers had arrived just in time because they were definitely needed.