Lubbock, Texas, plans to pray for rain

[TomInTib]

Lubbock - so flat that if you stand on a can of tuna you can see the back of your head.

LUBBOCK, Texas, July 24 (UPI) -- Public officials in Lubbock, Texas, are organizing a day to pray for rain.

"Nobody is going to tell God what to do and what not to do, but we are in a serious drought in West Texas and since he is the man who controls the rain clouds, we're asking him for his mercy and his help," Mayor David Miller told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

The City Council and the Lubbock County commissioners are expected to adopt resolutions this week asking local residents to both pray and fast for rain this Sunday.

So far this year, Lubbock has received about half of its normal 10 inches. In the weeks since June 1, the growing season for cotton, rainfall has been a scant .75 inches, far less than the normal 4.43 inches.

Officials have tried prayers before and say they were answered. In January 2004, after a year of drought, the city and county set aside a Sunday to pray for rain and got the second-wettest year since records have been kept.

http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060724-063818-3430r

[murray hill farm]

1. Well, it does give them something to do while they wait....

and then, it is a win/win because eventually it will rain.

[Dead_Parrot]

2. Somehow, you just know...

...they'll be driving to church in SUVs.

[BlueJazz]

3. Reminds me of a Fractured Poem: When you wish upon a Star....

...makes no difference who you are.....it doesn't work. :)

[Massacure]

4. In other news, a Cat 5. hurricane has formed in the Gulf of Mexico

It seems to be barreling toward Texas...

[On the Road]

5. If Those Texas Baptists Had Read Their King James Bibles,

they would know why:

"Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to blush with shame." Jeremiah 3:3

They might just need a bit more righteousness:

"The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." James 5: 16-8

:smoke:

[TomInTib]

6. Damn, I was a SE Texas Southern Baptist way back then

and you are spooking the crap out of me.

Elias, bring it on!

But look out, people!