Word: raining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain For forty days it will remain. St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair. For forty days 'twill rain nae mair...
People of the East last week muttered about St. Swithin because it had rained in a few places along the Atlantic Coast on his Day (July 15),* and on day after day thereafter the skies opened, the clouds burst and most of the East from Maine to Georgia was drenched to sogginess. Meteorologists explained that a "cold front" had merely come to a halt at seaboard, meeting warm, moist airs from the sea. This knowledge "was small comfort to marooned motorists in New Jersey, stalled train commuters in New York, flooded manufacturers in Pennsylvania, growers of damaged tobacco in Connecticut...
Across the South into Texas and Oklahoma went St. Swithin's trouble. The San Saba River (southwest Texas) flooded an area 100 miles long, 50 miles wide, making ranchers swim for their lives, when 14 inches of rain fell in a week...
While the East drowned, the Northwest prayed for rain. From Mt. Shasta to Vancouver Island and eastward into Montana, hundreds of fierce fires raged in tindery forests. In ten days, 17,000 acres of National Forests had burned and thousands more burn every day. Near Ryderwood, Wash., 35.000 acres of timber went up. Dry electric storms were the main cause, but in some cases miscreants were suspected of making jobs for themselves as fire fighters. On St. Swithin's Day alone, electric storms had started 200 fires in northern Idaho and western Montana. Klamath, Trinity, Siskiyou and Columbia National...
...Roosevelt luck" at Amarillo, Tex. The evening he stopped to speak there, in the middle of the "Dust Bowl," rain poured down...