IT'S RAINING AGAIN!

[TexasCharley]

iT'S TUESDAY, 22 SEP, 3:25 pm. Where I am it's been raining since about 3 this morning--nothing hard, no big thunderbumpers, just a slow, steady, soaking rain. Exactly the sort of rain this part of Texas needs. What's more, there's a couple of days more predicted. If this keeps up for a month or 2 we'll be out of this drought. This is the 2nd day like this in less than 2 weeks, which is gonna put a strain on ol' man Drought. Today at this time it hasn't even broken the 80 mark. A month ago we were in a seemingly-endless stretch of 100 to 100+ days, & I've seen it 100 or 100+ as late as mid-November & as early as late February. We had an isolated day close tto the middle of Feb in which it hit 102. I've also seen it 17 on St Paddy's day, but not in the saame year.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

I wonder if we will have a real winter this year.....last three or four years have been warmer than normal and that is why we have so many bugs. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Buck]

My brother lives in Georgia right on the North Carolina border. Its been dry as heck for a year. Now they are getting flooded out!!!

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

One child was torn from his father's arms and was swept away in the flood waters...sad. Kelley (Texas)

 

[bossman]

Ilive in the Dallas area we have had rain 10 of the last 12 days and more on thursday , i here that lake Travis in Austin where we dive is 45 to 50 ft low

 

[TexasCharley]

Yesterday at 4 PM the thermometer I have attached to my yard fence registered 68 degrees. A month ago it seldom registered less than 100 at that time of day. Tonight for the first time since early May I found it necessary to pull a sheet over my bare feet. Maybe something's changing.

 

[Micheal_R]

n/t

 

[TexasCharley]

It's [i]STILL[/i] raining! Yesterday, which was the 2nd or 3rd day of fall, depending on how you look at it, the high in Seguin was 68. Last night the low was in the very low 50s or possibly the high 40s. A month ago nightly lows were in the high 70s, daytime highs 100 to 100+. I slept in a long T-shirt, used no cover, & ran a ceiling fan on 'high' because it was just too hot for anything else. Last night I slept in cotton outing lounge pants, a long-sleeved cotton T, & sox & under a wool blanket to keep from shivering. The ceiling fan was off.

Because of youthful foolishness I have a bad right knee. I take a warm bath in the morning to keep it from bothering me during the day. Since mid-May I've had to keep the bathwater temp no more than 2 or 3 degrees above body temp because it was just too hot to do otherwise. This didn't do much to loosen up that knee. This morning I had to run a heater in the bathroom for over an hour to get it warm enough to take my clothes off. I got to take a long, hot soak for the 1st time in over 3 months, meaning the knee won't begin to give me trouble until about bedtime tonight. Gettin' old ain't no picnic. If Ah'd uh knowed Ah uz gonna live thishere long, Ah'd uh took better care uh mahself!

 

[TexasCharley]

The rain has stopped for a while. Yesterday it hit 90 again, which is more common for this time of year. However, there's more rain in the forecasts for next week. Maybe this drought is over. I sure hope so. The only problem is, it's given new life to the Johnson grass I hoped the drought had killed.