8" to 15" of RAIN Predicted! AGAIN!!!

[baymule]

Here in northeast Texas, we haven't had rain in months. Our ground is sand, lately it's been talcum powder. Each footfall brought up clouds of dust, choking dust. Everything has sported a whitish haze on it, inside the house and outside. Blech.

So it is with some excitement that flash floods are predicted! The bottom fell out at 6:00 this morning. There was a lull in the pounding rain, at 2:00PM we already had 4" in the rain gauge. It is still raining. At 3:00, I went outside and fed animals.

Hurricane Patricia is pummeling Mexico, the strongest storm ever, is what the newscasters are saying. Patricia is marching across Mexico, right into Texas and bringing more rain with her. I feel real sorry for the poor people in the path of Patricia, I know what hurricanes do to homes and businesses.

The rain we are getting now is not from hurricane Patricia, it is coming from the northwest. Can't wait for both storms to collide! If we got 4" in 8 hours and it is supposed to storm for the next several days, then we are on track for that 15" the weather man is predicting.

 

[baymule]

Haha! The local news just showed a double wide floating away, followed by a 5th wheel RV! I missed which county it was. Burn bans still light up the map in red, time to drop the burn ban, got a pile to burn!

 

[so lucky]

Hope all you Texans stay safe!

 

[digitS']

I believe that the mobile home park is on the other side of the state from you, 'Bay. However, the most flood news is just to your south. That's where the largest cities are.

It shows how large this system is. And meanwhile, as northern Texas is flooding, the hurricane is just crossing the southern border. May? Or, October? With drought between ...

Severe conditions! Did you know that Norwegians use the word Texas to mean crazy?! Not as a person is crazy but as in way out of the ordinary ...!

Please, do your best to stay in control of your safety, Bay'.

Steve

 

[digitS']

Here's our local drought report: I have continued to say severe but it has been extreme in eastern WA and northern ID for awhile.

Some of the northern Cascades area of Washington has moved into moderate. This is part of where the fires have been so bad the last few years. It's right against the Canadian border and shows how the Pacific storms are all tracking so far north.

Your anticipated 15" of rain would be our annual precipitation, here ...

The burn ban was lifted. Just as my sinuses had begun taking a hit from the decay from Autumn frosts. I did have several weeks improvement after the heights of the forest fires.

Steve

 

[baymule]

As of 8:00 this morning, since 6:00 yesterday morning, we have gotten ELEVEN INCHES! It is a fine drizzle right now, but more is coming. I'm OK with it, been super dry around here.

Since we can't go out to play, we are watching the grand daughters. Their dad is a 6th grade teacher and grades are due Monday. He has to get them all entered and turned in. Our daughter is working on a doctorate, has a 10 page assignment due Monday and hasn't written a word. What better way for us to spend a rainy Saturday than Disney channel and two precious little girls.

Steve, so Norwegians use Texas for over the top crazy? I have to say that's appropriate. Somehow they must know me.....

 

[Carol Dee]

WOW that is a lot of rain is such a short time. Hope some stayed in the aquifers and did not just rush away with anything it could carry down stream!

 

[baymule]

We have spread lots of pine shavings/horse manure around. We filled up the garden, dumped 3 loads in a low spot in a small pasture and started down the pipeline easement. Knowing the rain was coming, I scooped sand with Marigold and built berms across the driveway to prevent erosion. I topped the sand with pine shavings and wet it down real good. The berms worked real good, deflecting the water run off to both sides of the house, instead of running under it.

The pine shavings on the pipeline are to help with erosion also. The shavings stop the sand from washing away. I will bury oak logs as we clean up dead trees around here. I'll leave half sticking out of the sand to help trap water and give it a chance to soak in, rather than run off.

We got a nice slow drizzle all day today. 90% tonight and tomorrow. Hope we get more rain. We need it.

 

[baymule]

Since yesterday at 8:00 AM to today at 8:00 AM we have had a fine drizzle and got another 2" of rain. That is a total of 13" so far. The news is saying 80% today with heavy thunderstorms. I'd be fine with another drizzle day.

 

[thistlebloom]

That's great for all the manure you've hauled in. I can't even imagine what 13" of rain in a few days would be like. We do backflips when we get 1" in a day.