rain

Another rainbow day

adamg — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:33:36 -0400

Lyetteann snapped the afternoon rainbow over South Boston and the Waterfront.

Jennifer Forman Orth also photographed it. Paul Locke captured it at Oak Grove.

Foamy drywall fell like rain in Downtown Crossing

adamg — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:40:42 -0400

The Missus reports from her office aerie above the Downtown Crossing Borders on some unusual weather conditions during this afternoon's storm:

... Huge sheets of foamy drywall material, six feet long and two feet wide, came floating and then spiraling down on Washington Street in front of us.

At first we worried that these were wooden boards floating in the sky. Turns out they were just foam though. So no one was hurt. But yikes! ...

Send in the boats: Harvard Street on the Medford/Somerville line flooded

adamg — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:51:31 -0400

5:15 p.m.: Harvard street off of Powderhouse Square is pretty much impassable right now unless you have a really tall pickup truck.

New residents of Seattle East grow tired of the rain

adamg — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:03:50 -0400

You know it's bad when firetrucks go screaming past you to rescue drivers whose cars got stuck in some floodwaters and the regional cable news network feels compelled to warn us not to drive into flash floods.

Another intense storm

adamg — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:27:38 -0400

Michael Fontaine took the above photo of today's storm moving in over Boston.

Lyss photographed the storm coming in over Swampscott.

Back in June:
Amazing photo of storm moving in over Cambridge.

Poor woman

adamg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:18:15 -0400

Every time there's a heavy rain, this woman, who lives on the southbound side of the VFW Parkway, just past the West Roxbury Parkway, dons her boots and raincoat and goes out with a rake to try to keep the storm drain and "dry" catchbasin outsider her house clear, to minimize the damage from flooding. She's been doing that a lot lately.

Time to break out the ark, Mabel

adamg — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:52:32 -0400

Paul Keleher spots a sensible driver on 128 - pulling a boat.

MEM DRIVE FLOODED. PLEASE ADVISE.

adamg — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:40:26 -0400

Shane Curcuru reports:

... [T]he Mem. underpasses to the Longfellow are glub, glub, glub. ...

Flash flood in Dorchester

adamg — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:03:08 -0400

Adam Pieniazek posts photos and videos of a flash flood on his street caused by yesterday's rain.

Not a cheeseburger in paradise

adamg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:12:39 -0400

All the rain makes for good mushroom conditions, as Karen Larsen discovered on a walk along the river in Watertown.