Rainy Day

For those of you who think that TEXAS is a dry state, guess again. The greater Houston area is not a dry part of the state by any stretch of the imagination. We typically get around 50 inches of rain a year. That is one heck of a lot of rain!

It's not uncommon for us to get up to 4 inches in an hour or so. But on the 16th, we got nearly double that amount of rain in a few hours. Add the fact that we had been getting quite a bit of rain for a few days prior, it made this rain fall even more of a problem. The ground was already fairly saturated, and the waterways dangerously full.

I've posted a few pictures of my front and back yards just for the 'visual effect' but we didn't experience any flooding in our home or garage. I can almost hear you gasping. When you see this for the first time it goes beyond frightening. At least it was for me, having moved from a mountainous state, but classified as a dessert climate by definition. Now, the most frustrating part of it is waiting for it to dry out enough that the dogs don't have to be hosed down every time they've been outside.