Lotsa water in that bucket

Sunday, 2:33 pm

By Kate

Nov

04

2007

I happened to glance out the back door and noticed a lot of water in the bucket that Terry used to use as a drinking trough. I’d just emptied it out a couple of days ago, so I know there was no water in it. Today, however, there is a whole lot of water. I just stuck a ruler inside and it came up to the 7 inch mark. So. Is a bucket a reliable vessel for a rain gauge? Because if it is, we had a lot more rain yesterday than has been reported. Most of the local weather reporting stations have said they only received about an inch and a half of rain yesterday. I find that hard to believe considering the constant pounding we had. My bucket certainly says we had more than an inch and a half. Couldn’t have been just my neighborhood that got rained on.