I don't think every county playing every other one has happened for a long, long time - certainly not in my 53 years of watching cricket. But we did used to play more than 20 CC games. You missed out test cricket on terrestrial TV - my summer holidays from school was generally at the county...
Weather's meant to be good at the weekend, just in time to help the Pakistan leggie
(BTW, it's death throes, unless you think one of the bowlers is a chucker :) )