That's what we had here yesterday and all during the night.... more than three inches of rain which nearly filled up every bit of our pond and knocked the electricity out three times.
I was in the post office this morning and that's what everyone was talking about.... the amount of water captured in their rain gauges during those heavy rains. Having a rain gauge in your yard seems to be the thing to do here. I have no idea why everyone needs to know how much rain falls at any given time, but a rain gauge is basic equipment on these properties.
With that country-rule in mind, I did buy a rain gauge a few years ago.... I actually gave it to my husband as a gift.... I thought he really wanted one because he kept asking the neighbors how much rain was in their gauges after we'd had a good downpour. When my husband unwrapped that rain gauge, he said "Why do I need a rain gauge?"
I told him that now he didn't have to ask the neighbors how much rain had fallen....... "You can just look at your own rain gauge now," said I.
"But then I won't have anything to talk about with the neighbors," said he.
That rain gauge sat on a shelf in the garage for six months, and then I finally took it out of the package and set it down into one of the flowerbeds. When it rained, no one in this house bothered to look at it, and my husband continued to ask the neighbors how much rain had fallen.
The glass and metal rain gauge got dug up by the chickens we had at the time... it was knocked over by the cats.... and it was disassembled and re-located by the raccoons. When I got tired of looking all over the backyard for the two pieces of the rain gauge, I gave up and put it into the donation box for the local thrift store.
My husband was right. Who needs a rain gauge? All you have to do is ask a neighbor or go into the little post office the day after it rains.
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