What is this wet stuff?!?!

from JoeUser Forums

I woke up this morning and heard noises of things bouncing off the skylight in my kitchen area, and peer outside and see the ground looks damp.  It's been so long, I'm not even sure I remember what they call this wet stuff that falls out of the sky.

Hopefully the next several days will serve to remind me all the more what this stuff is as we get a few more days of cooler weather and replinish the ground water a bit.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
We started to see some of the wet stuff.  But then the local governments shut it off and fined god as being in violation of the water rationing.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I heard some scientist say something about it being H2O or some weird code there. I don't like the idea of having some kind of chemical reaction going on outside when I least expect it. And scientist need to stop with all the geek code talking, I hate it when I have no clue what the freak they talking about.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
it being H2O or some weird code there


Dihydro-MonOxide. A potentially deadly chemical that most of the Greens want to ban.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
The only problem I really have with the wet stuff is that a lot of the idiots around my area haven't seen it frequently enough lately and for some reason they tend to forget how to drive in the stuff.  Stopping distances go out the window and accidents happen because of tailgaters and such.  Then we wind up with people that all slow down to a snail's pace because they are fearful that if they get near the speed limit they'll be going too quickly and may wind up rear-ending someone that slows in front of them.  Bleh.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

The only problem I really have with the wet stuff is that a lot of the idiots around my area haven't seen it frequently enough lately and for some reason they tend to forget how to drive in the stuff.

Are you visiting us down here?

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I know! I know! It's called, now get this, RAIN!!

At least it's not snowing, as it has been threatening to do here for the past few weeks.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

At least it's not snowing, as it has been threatening to do here for the past few weeks.

SNOW?  We are still running the AC because of the temps and the humidity!

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's called 'acid'. Stay away from it. It will destroy you.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

RAIN!!

Yeah, that's the word I was searching for

... it's not snowing

bite your tongue!  The idjits around here really don't know how to drive in that stuff.  One flake.  That's all it takes to start a massive traffic jam.

Just putting that word into the weather forecast starts a run on commodity items at the grocery stores.  Milk, bread, eggs, toilet paper -- all of it flies off the store shelves with buyers panicked about being stuck in their homes for days on end (even though the average snowfalls around here result in less than 12" of snow, and typically start melting the next day, with roads passable within 8 hours of the end of most snow storms passing through....)

At this point though the wet stuff is very welcomed, and desperately needed.  The ground has been so dry, the grass is brown all over, the plants and trees are looking horrible, and for many places up and down the eastern seaboard area -- for example Atlanta -- there are serious concerns about how long the water supply will really last.

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Haha,

Here when it rains everyone forgets how to drive so they resort to 35MPH on the 60MPH highway. Then when it snows they must think that 4 wheel drive some how makes their vehicle suddenly have better traction in snow. They will go 60-65MPH on snow packed highways.

I just don't understand.
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Bah! It's the same way here, Adventure Dude! That's why I don't drive at all when I can help it.
Doctor Guy, I've been wearing my winter coat for weeks, now. And my heater doesn't work very good. Sadness is in my soul.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's called 'acid'. Stay away from it. It will destroy you.


Heh, heh.

Actually, in the right reaction water can be a weak acid...and in other reactions a weak base as well. Water: It's crazy!

~Zoo
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top

Actually, in the right reaction water can be a weak acid...and in other reactions a weak base as well. Water: It's crazy!


Nerd
But at least it proves you actually did your chem homework

It warmed up today! It was around sixty. Downright balmy, considering the recent conditions.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
But at least it proves you actually did your chem homework


I'm in O-chem...so I know my way around the chemistry block.

It warmed up today! It was around sixty. Downright balmy, considering the recent conditions.


Not here...windy and crappy.

Damn you Ohio...especially the Miami Valley!

~Zoo
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
One flake. That's all it takes to start a massive traffic jam.


We have those a lot - even when it is not snowing (the flakes)
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
But at least it proves you actually did your chem homework


Zoo is our resident scientist! WHen it comes to all things scientific, his word is law! (Well, except when we disagree with him.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
Zoo is our resident scientist! WHen it comes to all things scientific, his word is law!


Make up your mind, he's a scientist or a lawyer. Stop confusing me,
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
his word is law!


...or theory or hypothesis...but I know my science, that I do. Or if I don't, I can easily learn it.

~Zoo
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Stop confusing me,


You think you are confused??????