I mean.....counting in tens is sooooo difficult.
I assume all American houses are measured in inches, feet, yards, chains, cubits, and pounds etc.
Why say that you bought 3.5 tonnes of grain, when 7,716 pounds sounds much more impressive.
When my house is 20, I'm comfortable. Besides that, my outside digital thermometer does read out in decimals, so I don't have to worry about it.
I like to be cooler than that at night during the winter. Not uncommon for the temp to hit 60. Summer time it's usually around 76-77 at night.
In St. Charles Mo, we've had enough rain to last a long time, a foot. I got a phone call from my old neighbor a few days ago telling me my old house, across from him, had so much run of from the other night, that it came between the two houses half way up the basement windows like a river. Never happened before, ever. It's really hard to believe. I think they're calling it the 1000 year flood. The subdivision sits on a bluff over looking thousands of acres.
Back in 2001 Tropical Storm Allison dumped 35+ inches on Houston over 3 days. I lost track of how much I got but remember dumping my 6" rain gauge at least 5 times. There was a couple of times where it was over flowing when I went to look at it. It was the only time in 37+ years that I started to wonder if my home was going to flood. There's county flood control ditch behind my place that's at least 75 feet wide and plenty deep enough that you can't see the mowers when they are in the bottom with things are dry....and they ain't small mowers either. Anyways, the water in that thing was almost even with the top. Hurricane Harvey dumped even more rain but it was more wide spread but the Houston area still got around 30". Harvey also had some lulls so the water has somewhat of a chance to drain off before the next downpour happened. Thing bad about Harvey is that it rained really bad in other areas that never flooded before.
