Downpours Everywhere, Except Where I Live

After the Toronto Blue Jays game, fans couldn't get to their cars
because the entrance to the parking garage was flooded as
the city became engulfed in flash flooding. Photo by
Fred Thornhlll/Canadian Press

In this humid stretch of weather, which really began more than a month ago, the wet air has let loose with some decent rains, and sometimes dangerous flooding almost everywhere in the eastern United States and southern Canada.

Where I live in St. Albans, Vermont, though, I'm still living in drought.

Despite the humidity, I can't seem to catch a break. It never rains. Or if it does, it's just a sprinkle.

How can such wet air not yield rain?

I've watched all summer as thunderstorms approach, and fall apart before they get here. Swaths of rain hit east and west and south and north of here, but can't seem to reach my neck of the woods.

I'm not sure what's causing this tiny drought. Just a pocket in northwestern Vermont where it doesn't rain. Drive twenty miles in any direction from my place, and the soil moisture is decent.

Last evening, Burlington got a quick downpour with two-thirds of an inch of rain. Here in St. Albans? Nada. The Burlington showers just stabilized the air where I am, so no precipitation here.

I suppose the dryness is better than flooding. Lots of places have had lots of water this summer. The latest victim is Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which had its worst flood since a really devastating one in 2013.

Parts of Toronto had close to four inches of rain in just a short time Tuesday evening. Many roads shut down, and police and fire crews rescued many people from cars.

As the Toronto Star reports, there was a scary close call when two men got stuck in a flooded elevator in a building basement. The water in the elevator was six feet deep with only a foot of breathing room when rescuers arrived. The two guys in the elevator had minor injuries and are going to be OK.

The Toronto Blue Jays game ended with a power failure, a leaking roof that soaked some seats, and fans' inability to get to their cars because the entrance to the parking garage was flooded.

There is a risk of more downpours today in and around Toronto, so they'll have to watch out for that.

Here in Vermont, there's a 50/50 shot of showers and thunderstorms today and this evening. I bet my last dollar it won't rain here in St. Albans, though. If it does, it'll just be a teasing sprinkle and not a good soaker.

Sigh.

Here's a video of street cars submerged in Toronto.  Yeah, too much rain there: