One summer, my parents well ran dry. Put rain in a whole new perspective. For the record, they live 30 miles from Boston; not somewhere like Arizona or Texas.
We had a number of years while I was growing up that parts of Massachusetts (even eastern MA) had water use bans due to drought conditions. They mandated how often one could, for instance, water one's lawn.
And for all the grey, gloomy days we had in June, we were (according to statistics I've seen) 0.25 inches below June average for the area. We got drizzle a lot, but not much rain-rain.
Both Chelmsford and Westford* have water bans that, for all intents and purposes, run for the duration of the summer. This is the first year in a long time that I can't recall seeing signs for the ban. And even though we got drizzle and are 1/4" below average for the month, what we did get kept people from watering their lawns, which is where most of the water goes. Even on days when it didn't rain, the cloudy weather kept the moisture from evaporating: everyone's lawns look great**, so why water?
*Westford is an odd one: more than half the town gets their water from private wells.
**I know a lot of people are frustrated, because the very thing that makes the grass grow keeps them from mowing the overgrown lawn.
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For the record, they live 30 miles from Boston; not somewhere like Arizona or Texas.
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And for all the grey, gloomy days we had in June, we were (according to statistics I've seen) 0.25 inches below June average for the area. We got drizzle a lot, but not much rain-rain.
Until today.
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And even though we got drizzle and are 1/4" below average for the month, what we did get kept people from watering their lawns, which is where most of the water goes. Even on days when it didn't rain, the cloudy weather kept the moisture from evaporating: everyone's lawns look great**, so why water?
*Westford is an odd one: more than half the town gets their water from private wells.
**I know a lot of people are frustrated, because the very thing that makes the grass grow keeps them from mowing the overgrown lawn.
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