Yes, that is a FULL rain gauge! As I was posting about the heat yesterday morning, we were receiving the left over rain from tropical storm Edouard. The rain storm sat right over our country for almost six hours and we received over five inches of rain. 
It was so wonderful. This is our front pasture... full of water. Needless to say, we didnt have to water our yard last night :)
This is the run off from our tank that is located on the other side of that brush. Beautiful site!
And here is the other side of the road. It was so hard to believe we had received so much rain after having numerous days over 100 degree temps. Actually, our small county had had fifteen days of fires. We have lost a very prominent business to fire, a building that belongs to one of the largest employers in our community, a barn not far from our place that caused six blocks of homes to be evacuated, and over 400 acres burned just down the way. We were in a dangerous situation. We are rejoicing because of the rain!!
Yesterday our temperatures did not get over 76. I pulled back the curtains and opened the windows as if it was the first day of fall. Yesterday afternoon we got out to go to the library, do some AR testing, run to the post office, and make a trip by Sonic during happy hour. We were heading home and the thermometer in the suburban said 76... it had said 106 not forty-eight hours earlier.
Thank you God for the break from the heat and all the moisture that our dry land received. God is so Good!
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And to think we are an hour driving distance from you and we did not get a sprinkle. We did get to enjoy a relief from 107. We got into the 80's but that was a relief. God is good......thanks for sharing. vi
Huntsville received a little under 5-inches from the hurricane. Of course, we were right in the middle of all the warnings. The eye of the storm moved right over H'ville. The nice thing about all the rain was it was not stormy. Just gentle falling rain all day and night. What a blessed relief from the heat.
Love ya,
Poppy
Wow! That is so great. We got some, but not much on our side of town! It felt like fall to me as well. I came home last night and was dying to put sweats on, but it really wasn't cool enough, I did anyways! I absolutely love the summer, but I'm getting in the Fall mood now!
I'm having a hard time following all these comments!! It was still in the 100's here yesterday!! MAN!! Send some of that up here closer to the panhandle!!!
Glad you got to feel a little bit of fall!! Isn't that a wonderful feeling...fall is my favorite time of year!!
Barely any rain here either! Glad yall got some......the pics look GREAT!
That is so wonderful for yall. We received a little rain and cooler temps but nothing like that. What a blessing.
P.S. - I tagged you on my blog.
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