Rain

[dad2paisley]

We are finally getting rain which will help our drought. It's still humid and muggy though.

[Pretty¤Missy]

Ick. I hate muggy. We are getting a bit of rain here as well. Send some more up here Tom!!

[dad2paisley]

, I have had enough of the rain. We have about 4in so far and the dogs don't want go out to do there business. It's really starting to flood now.

[dad2paisley]

The floods finally recede in PA/NJ.

Floods recede in Pennsylvania town

WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Floods in the Susquehanna River receded early on Thursday, lifting the threat of catastrophic flooding in the historic town of Wilkes-Barre, but water was still rising in parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Days of torrential rain followed by floods had killed at least 16 people in the eastern United States by late on Wednesday. With buildings submerged, roads washed out and rivers surging, authorities declared emergencies and ordered hundreds of thousands of people evacuated across swaths of New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

"Yesterday was a war zone in the northern tier of Pennsylvania -- we choppered out over 1,000 people from rooftops, from second and third floors of their homes," Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said in an interview on CNN.

The Pennsylvania town of Wilkes-Barre was prepared for the worst overnight but levees held and the volume of water coming into the Susquehanna from tributaries upstream was less than had been anticipated, officials said.

"The danger has passed and life will return to normal," said James Brozena, county engineer for Luzerne County.

"It's hard to say we dodged a bullet, considering all the damage and danger, but so far the news has been good today," Rendell said. He said officials were watching the Delaware River in southeast Pennsylvania, which had yet to crest.

The focus also moved to Trenton, New Jersey, on Thursday, where the National Weather Service forecasted flooding on the Delaware would peak in the afternoon.

Binghamton, New York, remained partly flooded and the nearby town of Conklin was the worst hit in the area, according to Broome County spokeswoman Darcy Fauci. Hundreds of people were airlifted from Conklin and Fauci said it would take days for the water to recede.

"Today is going to be a big day for doing a lot of damage assessment and getting into more areas," Fauci said.