Texas FINALLY getting much needed rain?

[AverageJoe90]

Hey folks. Good news for those of us in the Lone Star State.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar_tab.php

Not much here in D/FW yet, but it's coming, though. :)

[maddezmom]

1. had a 20 minute downpour...good soak but not enough

looking forward to much more. :)

[NutmegYankee]

2. Alright!

I hope it's a good soaking for you folks. Here in the NE, we are sick of the rain.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I am glad for you!

[malaise]

4. Looks like Jeff Masters'forecast works better than Perry's prayers

:evilgrin:

Enjoy :hi:

[rpannier]

23. Perry's a dingus

If he really wanted to bring rain he should have had a statewide car wash followed by a picnic

[iris27]

5. Hoping to get some here in Austin...we had literally about 5 seconds this afternoon and that's it.

The sky is promisingly cloudy though.

[joshcryer]

6. God is looking kindly upon the Ouccpy Austin protesters. :)

[BillyJack]

16. +1 n/t

[Uben]

7. It's gettin close!

HAven't had a run-off rain in 5 months! Fingers crossed.

[Ilsa]

8. We've had quarter-inch showers where I live. That's about it. One weekend will help

The flowers and weeds, but it won't break the drought. We need regular rain and plenty of it. But we are not forecasted to get that, only occasional rains like this.

[Vinnie From Indy]

9. Good luck with the rain!

Cheers!

[elocs]

10. From what I have seen of future projections Texas had better get used to long droughts.

That will be the norm.

[AverageJoe90]

13. I've heard the prediction.........

And it definitely seems at the very least a little pessimistic. However, though, due to the continuing anthropogenic influences in climate change, it is indeed quite possible that droughts could get quite a bit worse, and become somewhat more common over time; in fact, I believe it's all but certain to a degree.
On the other hand though, we must always make sure that fearmongering is kept to a mininum as well; we don't need anymore 'Earth is going to turn into Venus II" crap, that's for sure(not staying that this study is, though, just to clarify that).

[Skittles]

11. we really, REALLY need it

yes INDEED

[glowing]

12. Hmm.. the Occupy movement shows up, and it rains..

Guess we know who God favors more now... LOL.

[ashling]

14. I was at a book fair at the LBJ ranch about 9 or 10 years ago

Elmer Kelton was on a panel I sat in on under a canopy out among the wildflowers, lovely late spring/early summer - hot, but nowhere near as hot as this summer-

but I digress ...

An old fixture from the LBJ days was there - I keep forgetting her name goldarnit!
She was bantering back and forth with the old storyteller and we all started talking about his book, The Time it Never Rained about the Texas drought of my youth - the 1950s. Up til now, the worst one in Texas history.

Elmer said that the Texas delegation to Congress kept after Eisenhower for not visiting the drought area (or as my dad's side of the family said it,"drouth") Anyway, Eisenhower finally made a short little visit to the area: flew in and flew out. A few days later it started to rain - finally broke the drought.

Now, this was back when Texas was a Democratic state -- we'd call 'em dark navy blue these days, but Democrats all the same. Anyway (I said that didn't I?) Elmer told that story. After a pause, he said "And west Texas has voted Republican ever since.

When I saw your subject line I thought that this would be appropriate.


LIZ CARPENTER! I just remembered - omg how could I ever forget her name!!

BTW, Elmer Kelton should - in my estimation anyway - be right up there with Larry McMurtry. He wrote stock westerns, but he also wrote insightfully about real Texas history. His book The Day the Cowboys Quit is probably as close as you'll come to a western novel with a Marxist feel. About the Corporate takeover of the cattle range in the panhandle in the 1890s and the response of the common cowpunchers there: they went on strike!

[glowing]

18. I almost forget; the President visited recently as well.. LOL

[cutlassmama]

25. +1

[alfredo]

15. Maybe Jova will bring rain. Self updating tracking map below

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. Didn't get far enough east to affect us.

[TBF]

19. It's been raining on and off in south Houston since last night -

very much welcome here.

[hobbit709]

20. Been raining here in South Austin for several hours steady this morning.

[malaise]

21. I heard on CNN that you're now

expecting flash floods. :hi:

[hobbit709]

22. Around here ANY decent rain will give us flash flooding.

We average 30 inches of rain a year but the last few it hasn't been that much. So when it does rain, the ground is baked hard and when it does rain, it's usually a pretty good downpour-around here we call them toad stranglers.

[malaise]

24. Enjoy the rain

:hi:

[Dover]

26. dupe

[Dover]

27. 5+ inches!!!! Delicious. I'd almost forgotten what it smelled and felt like. AMEN!!! n/t