Hi List, How is the weather where you are? We've been having 100* temps with 107*-113* heat index during the day and muggy low 80's at night. Today I went out and it about 80* with a nice wind blowing. It ALMOST felt cool! The weather for my area says it is 74*, but I don't think I can believe that. Was there a cold front? Last night, after the news, my sister said today was to be the hottest day of the year, so far. We are to start getting rain this weekend. Haven't hardly had any rain for days now. It's been so terribly HOT! Stay cool! tracy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow

How is the weather where you are? tracy -------------------- Good question Tracy. For us in Northcentral Indiana, its been a very soggy experience. In just one month's time we've gone from the dryest summer on record to the wettest. The last two weeks alone we've had about 11 inches of rain with a good portion of it coming from Tropical Storm Erin. The last couple of days we've had monsoon-like storms to the point that everything's flooded. Our basement has flooded so many times in the last few weeks, I'm ready to call FEMA. Only joking. :-) On our one basement wall where the water comes in, we have towels stacked like sandbags. Its also very steamy outside with the humidity being so high. The lab results that came back the other day also showed the stale Christmas cookies make great water absorbers. :-) Rick B

In north central Ohio we are m-u-g-g-y. My brother says it feels like the time he has spent in the Amazon -- minus the snakes. Cripes. Just 40 miles southwest of us there has been much flooding: Findlay and Shelby in particular. We have had some localized flooding, but they are suffering the worse of it. Smiles, Anna P.S. Someone asked for peach kuchen. I am up to my armpits in family right now (love it), but I will scour my cookbooks when we return from vacation, unless you have a recipe already. -----Original Message----- From: padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Richard Berkheiser Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 2:41 PM To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] weather in your area How is the weather where you are? tracy -------------------- Good question Tracy. For us in Northcentral Indiana, its been a very soggy experience. In just one month's time we've gone from the dryest summer on record to the wettest. The last two weeks alone we've had about 11 inches of rain with a good portion of it coming from Tropical Storm Erin. The last couple of days we've had monsoon-like storms to the point that everything's flooded. Our basement has flooded so many times in the last few weeks, I'm ready to call FEMA. Only joking. :-) On our one basement wall where the water comes in, we have towels stacked like sandbags. Its also very steamy outside with the humidity being so high. The lab results that came back the other day also showed the stale Christmas cookies make great water absorbers. :-) Rick B ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Just 40 miles southwest of us there has been much flooding: Findlay and Shelby in particular. We have had some localized flooding, but they are suffering the worse of it. Smiles, Anna -------------------- They were showing Finlay on the Weather Channel last night and they have quite the mess. Being so close to the river some of the businesses didn't have flood insurance. Business owners thought they didn't need it because a couple of blocks were up high enough from the river. They haven't seen anything like this since 1913. My parents and I drove over to LaPorte last night for supper and we got caught in a bad storm. The wind was getting pretty bad by the time we got to the old Studebaker proving grounds and Bendix Woods near New Carlisle. On the way home, we saw downed trees and branches everywhere. There's more storms brewing in Iowa so we're not out of the woods yet. Rick B

--- Rick wrote: Our basement has flooded so many times in the last few weeks, I'm ready > to call FEMA. Only joking. :-) On our one basement wall where the > water comes in, we have towels stacked like sandbags. Its also very > steamy outside with the humidity being so high. > > The lab results that came back the other day also showed the stale > Christmas cookies make great water absorbers. :-) ************************* Rick, Sorry to hear about the flooding. That has got to be terrible to live through. We've gotten our heat and sun back. Ugh. The a/c in my car is not working correctly and my driver side window doesn't go down so it is terribly HOT to get into the car and go anywhere. On a good note, Rick, you have found another use for the stale cookies. Maybe you should write a book? "101 uses for Stale Christmas Cookies". I bet it would top the best seller list for many weeks! #1 could be great for sopping water out of flooding basements. #2 could be great for remodeling-holds paint well. and so on... tracy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz