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How right I feel you are, When I lived in Gibraltar, the rain was a dark reddish colour at times, it was heavy with Sahara desert sand particles blown over the Straits from Morocco, which was only 7.5 miles away as the crow flew On Drying it left a red oxide colour residue on Just about everything, So nothing Surprises me here.

 

Wow, not surprised... Philippines was the first place i ever stayed where i got sick every time it rained, and got a fever if i happened to spend any time out in the rain.. I left there for good because of such constant ills.. I was fine my first few trips back from philippines, but finally after my last exit, i have ever since been sick in the rain even back in the US or other countries.. Not as bad as in the philippines, but i think it left residual long term effects.. Not sure what it is, microbe, allergic reaction or what...
Good info... I moved to the desert now just because of my ups and downs with the rain.. All started with exposure to rain in philippines 5 years ago..

 

i thot this might be of interest to the fresh air buffs on the group.

i record the rains for personal interest and attached is a foto of the recent sunday evening rain which happened after a couple of weeks of no recordable precipitation.
the left image is straight out of the rain collection device and the right image is after the sample rested for a couple of hours.

sample taken on 9 march, 5k south of valencia at 400m (the boondocks). i imagine the rains downwind of duma must be a tad bit thicker. the samples are clear with daily rains but a rainless period of as little as 3 days produces colored samples.

good stuff, eh...

 

Using rain water as drinking water is not something we would normally do. Rain water here causes allergic reactions to some in my family who shower with. So in Siquijor we have a concrete tank, 1/2 for municipal, or when that shuts down, for delivered potable water and the other half for rainwater harvested from the roof. We have two well type pumps and compressors, one for delivered water and the other for rain. The rain water is soft and excellent for the washing machine for clothes. My next project is to re-plumb rain water for the toilets. Not so hard to do. Showers and dish washing continues to use municipal (again, when available) or delivered water but delivered water use will be substantially cut. Cooking and drinking, we will continue the 20L bottles. Very cheap and tastes good, same as we did in Cary NC. In Siquijor, sometimes they suffer heavy droughts and no municipal water is available. Saltwater intrusion destroyed the wells. All we have is govt or private delivered water (both are expensive) and rain.


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I for one am ready to start getting some rain...my rain collection barrels are empty (gave me time to clean them all out the other day). The water coming of the nipa is always brown but I attribute that to the nipa roof. The water collected from the polycarbonate roof material above the garden seems pretty clear, actually give that water to the dogs with no ill effects...not now as only have a couple inches in the main barrels from the rain the other day. I will check tomorrow to see how the water looks in the barrel from the garden area as it has been a couple days sitting.

For whatever reason my plants seem to do better with the rain water than the well water, not sure why but they do. With the dry conditions and wind I am watering the garden at least twice a day and the dirt is just soaking it in. We've talked about bringing some water in from the river but pretty sure that would not be any cleaner than rain water.

Shawn