As with most of the country, the good State of Wisconsin hasn’t seen any significant rainfall in months— but that changed yesterday afternoon because I decided to roll copycatvert out onto the driveway to change the transmission mount. It was a nice sunny day, mild temperature and I just felt like working outside of the garage. As soon as I had the car immobilized up on jackstands with its transmission mount removed, a big ass black cloud of fury appeared and parked itself right over the top of me and my top-down convertible. Within seconds, monsoon-like rains were pouring down and there I stood, hands black with grease, frantically trying to think of a way to pull the top up without having to touch it. I ran like a mad thing around the garage groping in every drawer and box for a clean rag. What more proof is there that we are but the playthings of vengeful, wrathful automotive deities than the fact that the instant I found a clean rag and got back outside, the rain stopped. The sun shone mockingly the rest of the afternoon while I shop vac’d the carpet.
You have my sympathies Jody!
Seems that one needs to never rule out rain with little to no notice with the type of weather pattern that seems to be nearly constant this year.
Thanks for the laugh (albeit at your expense) and hope you got 'er good and dry.
sorry for the crap.
bet you the gods were simply jealous!
hope it came out ok
“Big ass black cloud of fury”…LMAO. I wish some of those would open up over my yard! Seem to have a “rain barricade” at my house…yesterday, not even 2 miles away, POURED…even had puddles on the side of the road…my house? Nary a drop! GAAAAAH!!!
Hope the shop vac got it good and dried out!
I hear ya, almost got caught out in the rain myself, good thing I didnt travel far (down the block)
Probably just vengeful 'cause you’re married to the weather girl
Thanks for the hilarious descriptive chain of events although at your expense 
I know sometimes we all think does this kind of stuff happen to anyone else? I learned a long time ago in south florida you don’t even need clouds, just liquid sunshine at full pour especially with a vert 
That sucks but at least it wasn’t hail. we were having flooring installed in our basement several months ago so the garage was full of everything from the basement. storm rolls in all 3 vehicles sitting outside. $6700.00 on the wife’s 2011 mazda,
$2500.oo on my 02 F150 SC, but only chipped the primer on my son’s 69 cougar . 3 weeks after we get her’s outta the shop she gets hit again on the way to a hair appointment for another $3600.00. gotta love Kansas
That’s a bummer! Hopefully it all dried out well. I went to take the Cougar out Saturday for a spin and I didn’t even get out of the garage before the bottom fell out of the clouds. It has been that way till this afternoon. So maybe this weekend the sun will come out and I’ll get some driving time in.
Steven
Could be, Leon! 'Tis ok, though, I’ll take that one for the team! LOL
Jeeze guys; maybe I should apologise - or just blame it on United Parcel Smashers. I put in an order for rain for my son-in-law’s hometown and the surrounding fields here in SW Iowa; ordered it Next Day Air (seemed like the best shipping method), and it never showed up.
Sounds to me like the idiots FUBAR’d the delivery 
Todd, ya marries the weathergirl; ya takes the bad with the good!
Jeez…all these stories are what nightmares are made of.
LOL, DD…ain’t it the truth? She finally cooperated, and had some delivered here Sat night/Sun morning…inch and 3 tenths. Not enough to lift the burn ban, but, if Isaac cooperates, we may be looking at a wet labor day weekend.
Wow, looks like west-central Iowa got the lion’s share of that storm - was 3+" of rain overnight Friday (26th); and it was still drizzling/sprinkling/drooling Saturday AM.
Hey, my wife saw the last couple of posts and came up with a serious (NOT!!!) retro-weather question: “Did Issac the Bartender on the Love Boat know how to make a better Hurricane than Joey at our local Red Lobster?”
BTW, I’ve ordered Black Velvet & Water (local custom) and Jack ‘n’ Coke from Joey at Red Lobster; neither drink tasted quite like the component parts. I now stick to drinking beer there. Even Joey can’t screw up pulling the cap off a bottle of Sam Adams. 
One could only hope, DD…