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EileneGuyEnough is enoughEnough already!Turn off the showers!Near Milan, farmer Sparky Weilnau has polliwogs growing in an empty field where soybeans should be getting ready to snap into flower thisweek.At Reidy Roofing on Fifth Street, Jeff Jackson is swamped with calls. “Things are leaking that have never leaked before,” including hiswarehouse roof.Geological engineer Dick Bell says his Seneca Caverns are drippier” than usual, even though the basicgroundwater table is “still a good, a health 40 feet lower than normal” because of lastyear’s drought.On the other hand, Ottawa County charter fishing captain Jack Tibbete is delighted withthe rain.Not only can he get his boats in and out of shallow East Harbor as the water level rises, but he’s got plenty of fares. Last week he took out a party of farm specialists and agriculture chemical salesmen.“The farmers can’t get into the fields, so they come fishing with me,” he says with undisguised glee. “I love it.” Tibbels may not be alone in enjoying the fifth wettest northcentral Ohio spring since 1896, but he doesn’t seem to have a lot of company.Just about everyone in the area whose work, or play, takes them outside has been at least inconvenienced and, at worst. incanacitated bv rainy
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Sandusky Sunday Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Sun, Jun 18, 1989
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