RAIN Finally!

[Thomas]

Corn growing and baling hay been great up here last week an half,but the streams/brooks are drying way to fast for this time of year...send us couple plus good days of soaking rain.

 

[Bird]

So we got a total of 6.39" in July,2.67" in August, .5" the first day of September, and then the current rain; a new record for my house from only one storm; about 7.8" since yesterday morning and still coming down. It's slowed enough our DirecTV satellite reception has started working again and the newsmen say we have flooded streets in our little town.

 

[Bird]

Well, it quit raining and the sun came out about 4 p.m., so I emptied the rain gauge again. That made 10.15" today and .57" yesterday. I'll bet our lakes are full.

 

[MikeInEburg]

We need rain so bad that many folks are hoping for the remnants of a hurricane to roll thru. If anyone has spare, please send it our way.
Mike

 

[texasjohn]

Yep... we got somewhere between 10 and 15 inches so far...and still coming.....only thing is that I had scheduled 2 dozers and a backhoe to arrive on Tuesday, same day as the rain, to start building 3 new water tanks...that task is now on hold, perhaps until next August....

 

[Von]

So we got a total of 6.39" in July,2.67" in August, .5" the first day of September, and then the current rain; a new record for my house from only one storm; about 7.8" since yesterday morning and still coming down. It's slowed enough our DirecTV satellite reception has started working again and the newsmen say we have flooded streets in our little town.

Bird, You have enough water to skim board in your yard! My son would be out there doing that for sure!

 

[JESSE1]

We were on the eastern side of the tropical storm and received less than .25 inches of rain. The ground is still powder dry.

 

[Bird]

Bird, You have enough water to skim board in your yard! My son would be out there doing that for sure!

Von, the odd thing is that this is fairly level ground with a very slight slope to the south, so by 4 p.m., you could look out there and not even see a puddle. It either sinks in or slowly runs off to the south. Any puddles are not deep enough to be seen in the grass.

But lots of folks in the Dallas/Ft.Worth/Denton area were as lucky as us. We had no damage (yet); just lots of rain and pretty stiff breeze, but a lot of flooding has occurred in the area and we're under a tornado watch until 1 a.m. tomorrow.

 

[dave1949]

Well, it quit raining and the sun came out about 4 p.m., so I emptied the rain gauge again. That made 10.15" today and .57" yesterday. I'll bet our lakes are full.

I would have gladly taken at least half your rain. The town probably couldn't afford to replace all the road culverts if we had the 10"+. Just hilly enough around here to get it collected and going.
Dave.

 

[Bird]

My wife said she heard a lot of sirens yesterday, but I'm surpised that I-35E was shut down temporarily less than a mile from our house.
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