Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Harvey is getting weaker but closer. The eye is 100 miles due South. It is suppose to turn around soon. Wind is only 10 to 15 here. Our rain totals 5.3" today at 3pm. There are about a dozen power outage areas but 99% of our Electric co-op customers have power. Our road is closed but the water has been a lot higher during the spring floods.View attachment 519912
I'm hoping the vfd will adopt the new late Sept date yearly. It used to be in Sept but they got rained out.

check that. Rain is coming down in bucketloads. Probably close to 11" now. Gusts to 40mph.

Texas just won the Little League championships, in a huge comeback.
Hopefully a positive omen for the flooding.

Drew, I was unable to watch. Glad for them. We need some sunshiny news.

My 87 year old mom is up here staying with us, (from Victoria). Glad she's here, but she's getting stir crazy.

It is raining as hard as it ever has here as I type this.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Texas just won the Little League championships, in a huge comeback.
Hopefully a positive omen for the flooding.

Good comeback win. I enjoyed watching the games.

 

[rswyan]

She shoots, she scores ...

 

[sodamo]

She shoots, she scores ...

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Interesting label

 

[lostcreekranch]

12 1/2" of rain in 24 hours. Are we half done yet? Probably not.

Rain gauge had over flowed overnight when I checked it early this morning so could be more than the 12 1/2" I've dumped out.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I'm hoping the vfd will adopt the new late Sept date yearly. It used to be in Sept but they got rained out.

So they moved it closer to the middle of hurricane season? Since they seem open to moving it, what about late spring or early summer before the big storms have a chance to wind up?:confused2: Or maybe even get all scientific about it and take a look at the weather histories for the area at Weather Forecast & Reports - Long Range & Local | Wunderground | Weather Underground. Naw, that makes too much sense!:laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

This from Fox news:

"Key oil and gas facilities along the Texas Gulf Coast were temporarily shut down as Harvey pounded the region with torrential rain and high winds, virtually assuring gasoline prices will rise in the storm's aftermath.
Even before the Harvey made landfall late Friday, dozens of oil and gas platforms had been evacuated, at least three refineries had closed and at least two petrochemical plants had suspended operations."

How much you wanna bet the prices'll go up on the West Coast, too? The greedy SOBs'll use any excuse to raid our pockets, and Harvey's a doozy!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

She shoots, she scores ...

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Shakes head...:shocked:

 

[Buppies]

Hope all you Texas folks stay safe. Serious flooding will continue for a while high pressure to north and east will keep Harvey from moving very much. Please heed warnings seriously. Weather for the mid Atlantic and North East takes a decidedly cooler direction fall like in fact. We are still very dry here pond 3.25 feet down and falling. No real work at home seems work is occupying my time seven days a week. Work harder to come by this year than last so will have to work harder and smarter.

Tractor leaking hydro fluid around one of the three spools just need time to fix
GPS in truck on fritz glad it's still under warranty just inconvenient

 

[txdon]

Conditions are getting worse for central Texas as Kyle also noticed. The wind has picked up and the rains are increasing. We just past the 9" mark and it's still coming down hard with no end in sight. Harvey is now 80 miles South of us. One model shows him coming through our county in 2 days. Looks like we will be stuck on this hill for a while.