
{"id":778,"date":"2007-08-23T05:02:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/08\/23\/the-mill-82307\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T05:02:06","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:02:06","slug":"the-mill-82307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/08\/23\/the-mill-82307\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mill: 8\/23\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let it rain<\/strong><br \/>\nSuddenly, on Tuesday, the wind kicked up and in swirls along Main Street, rippling the awnings, signs and potted flora. Dead leaves from parched trees and bushes and all kinds of other debris got kicked up. A crape myrtle in front of the Bank of America building lost a good-sized branch. Then there cut loose a downpour of what old-timers around here used to call \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rain.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Seriously. If it seems like a long time since an actual front with actual widely scattered rain crossed through, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because it has been a while \u00e2\u20ac\u201d since July 17. Precipitation since then has been spotty indeed and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a kind of jealousy after afternoon popup storms between those getting a smattering and those who saw a soaking.<\/p>\n<p>Until last Tuesday, there was not a drop recorded on the official books for August.<\/p>\n<p>Gallons of water used per day \u00e2\u20ac\u201d measured in the millions by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has gone up from 9.3 in the last week of July to 11.3 million gallons this week. On Tuesday, we used more than 12 million gallons from the reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the reservoirs are holding, but the OWASA board is meeting tonight (Thursday) to discuss further restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>More on the subject, the weather and other items of interest on The Mill \u00e2\u20ac\u201d carrborocitizen.com\/mill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let it rain Suddenly, on Tuesday, the wind kicked up and in swirls along Main Street, rippling the awnings, signs and potted flora. Dead leaves from parched trees and bushes and all kinds of other debris got kicked up. A crape myrtle in front of the Bank of America building lost a good-sized branch. Then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}