More Rain

Boy, we had a storm last night.

Clouds began to darken to the west and north about mid-afternoon. I even heard some distant thunder about then. But nothing moved into our immediate area for a while. Weather advisories popped up on the television about storms to our north in the Robert Lee area, but things remained dry here.

Then, about 6:30 or so last night, it was our turn. The storm proper lasted only about 2 hours or so, but during that time we received about 2.25 inches of rain, some marble sized hail, and some very high winds and loud thunder. We had some real flooding on the streets to our south and east.

On my walk about the neighborhood this morning, there was quite a bit of debris strewn about, but no damage that I could see. Lots of gravel and mud had been washed into streets, and leaves were scattered all over. A few benches we have strategically located about the neighborhood were toppled over. But again, there was no damage.

This is precisely the kind of rain that provides runoff that can help area lakes. I'm sure Twin Buttes and Nasworthy benefited from the deluge, and I hope that water pouring into the Concho River will make its way downstream to O.H. Ivie, which supplies most of our municipal water needs.

We have a chance for isolated storms again this evening. We'll see what turns up.

This is what I emptied from the rain gauge earlier this morning. That's right at 2.25 inches. Wow! That is great for this area.

I stuck my camera out the door to catch this picture. The wind was blowing the rain so hard that I was getting pelted as I stood in the door. Note the tree leaning over. Wind was probably 50 mph or so at this point. You can barely make out the clubhouse directly behind the street light, which was already on despite being only 6:30 or so.

This is a terrible picture. it was still pouring, and you can see the drops on the lens. But noticed the white caps. The entire street was flooded.