Rain!

[ashling]

We interupt your regularly scheduled discussion, argument, squabble, or fight to bring you this important comment:

RAIN!!! in north Texas
(excuse the all caps - or not -, but believe me they are called for)

we return you to your brawl

[livetohike]

1. Yay! Hope it's a nice, steady, soaking rain

:-)

[ashling]

7. It is

at this point anyway - no telling how long, though

[gateley]

2. WONDERFUL!! nt

[TBF]

3. Awesome! Please point it south when you've had enough ... nt

[seabeyond]

4. YEAAAAAA. we had ours wed night and thurs... our ground is all soggy. trees happy. some green gr

went from 100- 50's-80. lovely

enjoy.

makes life feel awfully good.

[Auntie Bush]

5. Good for you! No more puppies in cracked earth!

Are you outside running around naked?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. We had a good hard rain here for a good three hours today.

I'm in OK City.
It was AWESOME!
I had to pull out a jacket! It didn't get out of the 50s today.
Duckie

[ashling]

10. So I see

[L. Coyote]

8. Portland, Oregon, too, after a long, horrid drought, 90 degree days, no clouds, weeks of it,

it finally sprinkled and cooled to 70 again. Whew!

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Reminds me of the end of "Leap of Faith" (Steve Martin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJC9Gn0FhP4

Rain starts at 1:40.

[TorchTheWitch]

11. meanwhile the northeast has been drowning

This is so weird how one area has been baking in record numbers while another has been drowning in record numbers.

[catrose]

12. IN AUSTIN

There was a dark cloud. Two drops fell on my windshield.

Bastrop is still burning.

[ashling]

14. I wish I could send some down there

:shrug:

[catrose]

20. Me too!!!! eom

[seabeyond]

15. awwwww. that is just wrong. so wrong. i hear ya

a dark cloud. lol.

sorry.

been there done that so much this spring and summer.

[catrose]

22. I continue to be amazed

that it rains anywhere. Much less in the same state!

[malaise]

13. Enjoy

At last!!


sp

[polichick]

16. Happy to hear it!! We've had so much rain in the Northeast this year...

I've been wishing we could send you some.

[Texasgal]

17. We WANT IT!!!

Please send it down I-35!!!

[catrose]

21. and lean to the east at Austin

to put out the Bastrop fires, only 50% contained at this point.

1500 houses gone...thousands of acres burned, including farms and state parks

[broiles]

18. RAIN!

It's lovely!

[Lisa0825]

19. I have rain envy down on the coast :-(

But I am glad SOMEONE is getting some!!!

[Honeycombe8]

23. Perry's prayers paid off! But seriously, so glad for you (and us...I'm in north TX)

I'm in Dallas.

It has been a long, dry summer. It was awful.

Then...today...RAIN! Just a little. But it's something.

[Brigid]

24. Yes, this is worthy of the big font, bolding, and caps.

:bounce:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Here's the weather map:

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/southplains_loop.php

It is a beautiful sight!

:woohoo:

[bvar22]

26. Your neighbors in West/Central Arkansas are celebrating with you.

Was it enough to douse those fires?
We are still under an extreme fire watch and Burn Ban here (Ouachita Mountains, West Arkansas)

:party:
A day long soaking rain yesterday,
another inch heavy rainfall this morning,
more predicted tomorrow.

The rain that fell yesterday was more rain than we have gotten since last April.
We have 4 month old chickens that had never experienced RAIN,
and didn't know what was happening.

Funny anecdote:
Our Rain Gauge was BROKEN due to the extended drought this Summer.
It is a decorative brass garden gauge that depends on a sponge floating on rain water in a container.
The sponge had dried out and crumbled over the Summer due to lack of moisture.
You KNOW it has been bad when the rain gauge breaks because it is too dry.


Yesterday was also a record LOW for Little Rock,
and probably for us too in West Arkansas.

Delightful.