I have just got back from Old Town, Maine and I experienced the heaviest rain I have ever seen in my life.
Thursday afternoon I call in and find one of my mates can’t do his usual Maine run and I was down to do it, this is really bad news for a friday ! I call in the depot and change trailers, go home for a shower the use my two remaining hours to get to Purmort NH, having already booked two hours thursday AM in the sleeper I could then have 8 hours rest. I set out again for Maine via Concord and across route 202 (a very twisty mountain route) and joined I 95 in Maine at Old Orchard beach, through to tolls for a 200 miles drive in a virtual straight line when it started to rain so heavily I couldn’t see the lane markings or much else come to that. I stopped for a tyre check at Augusta and after being out of the cab for just 10 seconds I was wet through, the surface water was about 6 inches deep. On arrival at Old Town the entire trailer floor was soaked from beneath and about half an inch of water was swilling about, this didn’t bother the customer who just unloaded me regardless. My reload was from Hollis ME (150 miles back south again) and as it was not raining in Old Town I opened the vents to aire the trailer, then got 3 hours in the sleeper. I awoke to even worse rain than before and set off south for Hollis. The down pour got heavier as I went on, turning into an ice storm by the time I reached Augusta again. At Saco I had to leave the interstate and cross 112 to 202 for 15 miles, the ice had turned to snow by now and they don’t salt those back roads.I pulled into Poland Spring Water and opened the doors to get drenched as about an inch of water was in the trailer, It got worse as I had forgotten to close the vents. The pick up note said ‘MUST BE CLEAN, DRY TRAILER’ so I expected to be turned away but as everyone else had the same problem they loaded me, I had to then drive for two hours before booking another 7 hours, I managed to clear Maine and stopped in a small town between Rochester and Concord NH, then drove home non stop.
I covered 910 miles in 32 hours hours with a total of 18 hours rest and 2 hours loading, try doing that in the UK, it reminded me of my days back at Swifts in the 70’s.
Yep I know what you mean about the weather Pat…it’s really messed up over here. When we left for The MATS show a couple of weeks ago it was snowing in Ohio…we crossed the State line into Kentucky and the sun was out and it was in the mid 70’s…we left KY 4 days later and it was in the 70s in Ohio…great 
The next day we woke up in the morning and there was another 4" of snow on the ground… 
I’m so confused in the morning’s…I dont know weither to put on my shorts or my long john’s 
Bully
It was in the 60’s yesterday and now we are expecting snow with a forecast for tomorrow of - 6c 
Still warm down here in the Sunbelt and getting warmer , but I do know exactly what you mean about heavy rains over here, never seen anything like it, until I moved here. I t is not that unusual to have as much as 4 inches of rain an hour 
, no matter how fast you put your windscreen wipers on, it is never fast enough to clear the windscreen to see.
It gets even more interesting now we are in Tornado season, and again when we get into Hurricane season in June.
Thunder down here is so loud and deafening and continuously ‘rolling’ you think the end of the world has arrived, never ever dealt with so much violent and unbelievable amounts of extreme weather in my life until I moved here!
I was told by an old time farmer in the middle of Oklahoma “BOY Its rains over here so hard its like a two fannyed cow (zb) on a flat rock”!!! 
edited for languae mrs mix fanny is the american term for backside so I’m letting that one stay 
YEP 
and in the summer it’s hotter than a snakes ■■■ in a wheel rut
Had some of that typical heavy rain/thunderstorms all last night, it was like driving underneath Nigara Falls, 10 hours of it, went to bed for 5 hours woke up and it was still raining just as hard!
time to get the wellies out!
We had it similar here Cliff, Got up at 3.00am for a 8.00am tip in Stratford CT (this gives me a couple of hours sleep on arrival) torrential rain and deep surface water all the way
Ya know… it actually sounds exciting, all this freak weather… its just the same old boring, drizzle over here… But hey, we are gonna hit 69 on saturday!!! WoooHooooo… Summers here … but dont worry…Its all down hill again from sunday… LOL
I cant believe you woke up to snow again the day after you dropped me off Bully… man, that is freaky… 
Ther I am sitting in my truck sleeper watching Tv while some geyser loads me in Mansfield MA this morning when the weather forecast guy say’s it will rise to the high 80’s for the weekend , I leave there, travel north on I 495 to the mass pike and after an hour run into heavy snow
When I reach Springfield there is a sharp line in the clouds with a coresponding line on the road (north to south), after that brilliant sunshine and 68 degrees … wierd weather or what 