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 Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 5:40 am
Sitting at home staring out of the window while torrential rain falls outside. It's been raining all day, all yesterday and most of friday too. On the news they say we're suffering form the worst draught in thirty years. Can someone please explain this, I've been wracking my head over this concept for most of the day whilst avoiding having to work and I have not come to satisfactory conclusion. Can someone explain?
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:33 am
Emmanuela Sitting at home staring out of the window while torrential rain falls outside. It's been raining all day, all yesterday and most of friday too. On the news they say we're suffering form the worst draught in thirty years. Can someone please explain this, I've been wracking my head over this concept for most of the day whilst avoiding having to work and I have not come to satisfactory conclusion. Can someone explain? I guess the meteorologist made a possible mistake, but darn. That's one big mistake. Unless, do tell me. When was the last time it rained where you live before last Friday?
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 12:14 pm
I think you mean "drought". A draught is a drink. "Being thirsty, he took a draught of water."
Also, since this isn't related to grammar/literacy, I shall move this to the GD subforum.
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Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:50 pm
It may mean that there's a drought in a different part of the world/country.
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:32 pm
Nah, my spelling died.. Yeah, the met office said that there was a draught in the south-west, and I'm sitting there thinking, urmm... Like, isn't this the South-West?
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:06 am
In Georgia, there's a semi-drought going on.
It's gotten to the point where you can only water your lawn on certain days of the week and at certain hours. For example, I live in an even numbered address, that means I can only water the lawn Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays excluding the hours of 10am-4pm.
Thank goodness I'm moving soon.
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:08 pm
Well, that's the way it is here, too. You can only water two days a week unless you decide to do it by hand.
Maybe you were in drought before it started raining. I mean, we had a load of snow over the winter, which put us out of serious drought. They were talking about it all the time on the news. So, maybe they mean that the rain put you out of that drought.
I don't know.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:51 pm
There were fires all over Florida from lack-of rain, but the rain season just came a little late so its green here now. mrgreen
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