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The lost summer?

Posted at 10:30 AM on June 11, 2008 by Bob Collins (5 Comments)
Filed under: Weather

It's raining -- again -- in the Twin Cities and we're near ready to throw in the towel and declare the summer is going to be a lost cause. Too bad. Resorters, for example, had a chance to have a great year thanks to the high gas prices keeping people "close to home." But, perhaps, people will decide it's cheaper to watch the rain fall from the homestead than a couple of hundred miles away.

In Wisconsin, though, it's even worse. On Lake Delton, resorters have a real problem. Their lake is gone... and so are some of the houses on it. Would-be guests have been canceling their reservations because a lake without water is merely a quarry.

It's not just tourists who are being affected by the weather. On ~~America's largest sewer~~ the Mississippi River, barge operators are preparing for delays because of flooding. Flooding... like what's happening in Iowa. (Really good pictures from Decorah here.)

Meanwhile, the inbox reveals a fascinating series of pictures today. The rain and thunderstorms that look so cruddy here on terra firma, look pretty nifty from above.

(H/T: Michael Wells)

Comments (5)

Awesome cloud pic!

Posted by bsimon | June 11, 2008 10:45 AM

A financial crisis that hit my friends washed out our planned camping trip in Yellowstone.

Now, it looks like even a small trip close to home wouldn't be worth it, the way this (not even technically) summer is going.

Posted by Paul | June 11, 2008 11:24 AM

Bob,

You've jinxed us. Now we're going to have a record hot/humid yet drought-plagued August.

Haven't any of you peole ever lived in a farm state? Don't tempt Mother Nature!

Sheesh. Thanks for nothing.

Posted by Mitch Berg | June 11, 2008 11:39 AM

//Haven't any of you peole ever lived in a farm state? Don't tempt Mother Nature!//

and don't sleep with her either!

Posted by motherearth | June 11, 2008 12:04 PM

"and don't sleep with her either!"

Oh, NOW you get scruples, you tramp?

Posted by fatherearth | June 14, 2008 11:20 AM

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