[Magdalen] Rain!

[Grace Cangialosi]

How was the clinic?

> On Jun 25, 2018, at 2:12 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was in Emporia, VA, this past weekend at a RAM clinic. I arrived on
> Friday evening and was thinking of going out for a bite of supper, only to
> open my door to a hellacious tropical downpour, the likes of which I hadn't
> seen since my days as a travel nurse in eastern North Carolina. It lasted
> only about 20 minutes or so, and there was a beautiful rainbow after. Also
> a blooded intersection next to the hotel.
> 
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 1:10 AM, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> That cold front produced a light shower here in sunny Queensland as the
>> edge of it swept by. Other parts of Australia experienced their coldest
>> June temps in a long time. Parts of Eastern Australia, however remain
>> drought declared. There's an awful lot of weather around these days...
>> Regards
>> Lesley de Voil
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Roger Stokes via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Sent: ‎24/‎06/‎2018 3:43
>> To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Cc: "Roger Stokes" <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Rain!
>> 
>>> On 23/06/2018 11:31, sally.davies at gmail.com wrote:
>>> ...Amen to that...but how I wish you could send some of that our way.
>> Here
>>> on the South Eastern coast of South Africa we have severe drought, water
>>> used restricted to 50l per person per day, and farmers are down to 20% of
>>> normal water allocation, which will result in older orchards being left
>> to
>>> die.
>>> 
>>> Cape Town is doing better, thanks be to God, though much more is needed
>> to
>>> avert another crisis in the next hot, dry Summer season. Here in the E.
>>> Cape we sometimes get those "cold fronts" but equally often they pass us
>>> by, and we cannot count on Summer rainfall either.
>>  The report on the rugby says it was extremely wet in Cape Town today,
>> which probably helped England.
>> 
>> Roger
>>