Fire and Rain

[hemibee]

We still have a few areas of fire in and around the state but the areas are getting smaller and the manpower needed to fight them is shrinking. Yesterday the firefighters and the State got a big break, measurable rain. The official Houston rain gauge showed the most rainfall the Houston area has received in 464 days and the Bastrop Fire area received even more than the 3 inches Houston received. My rain gauge shows we had just under 2 inches here at the house. While the rain was a welcome relief, we are still around 33 inches below normal since the drought began or right at 24 inches for 2011.

I was in Central Texas (45 miles north of the Bastrop Fire area) right on the edge of the Hill Country Saturday when the rains began there. Light soaking rains fell most of Saturday afternoon and it came and went all night. When we headed home Sunday morning the rains were beginning again but had not moved much toward the Houston area. The rains really started moving toward the Houston area about time we hit the roads and rained on us the entire trip home and some of the rains were pretty heavy. It was heavy enough I was glad we were in the truck and a couple times I was ready to pull off the road if I could find a safe spot to do so but by time there was a safe spot the rains had eased up.

We're looking forward to more of the same but the forecast isn't showing any more over the next 7 days.


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[Rocky]

Texas certainly has been having a tough time of it lately.
Nice to hear that you finally got some welcome rain even if it wasn't enough.

 

[CarlS]

Glad to hear you got some much needed rain. We got about ten inches over three days and we needed it.

 

[DaveM]

Is it not so great when that rain comes with us I just went outside and stood and just looked at it like I had never seen rain before. We I suppose it had been a few years since I had actually seen rain like that