"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 5/26/2016 10:15 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> We were in DC for several days some years ago. Seemed every day as soon
>> as the museums closed, the skies opened up and we got soaked. We never
>> did find a way to wait out the storm that seemed to last as long as it
>> took for us to walk back to the hotel and get up to our room. Then it
>> stopped. We would have to change out of our soaked clothes before we
>> could go out to dinner. Wasn't fun.
>
> That's actually pretty rare except maybe last year. Usually when we hit
> July, and especially August we don't get much rain at all. The dry season
> only lasts until Sept or Oct so we don't really qualify for having
> droughts, but when you're in the midst of it and really want some rain it
> sure feels like it.

Wow! I can't remember exactly what month but it was summer. I don't think
we were married yet as we had borrowed his grandma's car to get to DC. That
tells me that we had flown there. So... More than 21 years ago.