aja8888
Moderator Emeritus
On the 8th hole of my golf match yesterday, the sky opened on us. Felt good after all these months of no rain. Got soaked, but once the sun came back out, we dried out before the match was over.
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Reminds me of my days when living in Houston... We'd usually see at least one major flood like that a year. Hope you are high and dry.
Wow!!! Hope you are safe. Getting 7" of rain while sound asleep sounds scary.
DFW, how did it go the rest of the day? I'm seeing some extreme pictures, but they were probably in the worst-hi areas.
DFW airport broke several records over a 24 hour period. Here is a shot of my neighborhood which is a little west of DFW airport with our common area totally flooded out. No flooding in our neighborhood streets, thank goodness.
Thank you!!^^^^^
Very slow season "so far". Wishing you the best for zero storms this year. And no Covid.
Blessedly, has been in the high 70's for a few days, but heading back into the 90's for the week. No rain in sight.
Not used to this here. DH is watering the flowers only every other day to keep the water bill reasonable. All of our trees and bushes are looking mighty sad.
Very concerning how low the lakes are in the Western part of the US
What a great hurricane season this has been thus far. Not one hurricane or tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico yet IIRC. The NHC reports four tropical disturbances (see below), but none threatening New Orleans since they have not turned into tropical storms or hurricanes yet. I'm hoping the red one makes a sharp right turn and dissipates in the north Atlantic. We'll see.
Meanwhile, it's 95F and brighty sunny outside! I love it. One year ago today, at 3:30 AM, after not having slept in 3 days from the stress we finally began our ill-fated evacuation for Hurricane Ida. That soon ended up with me in an ICU in Arkansas with severe Covid (Delta) double pneumonia. My life is much better now.
While sitting in the heartland, I've been watching the Eastern and Central Pacific maps. So far this year, there has been very little activity. We're building toward the peak soon. So here is hoping we can make it to Dec. with nothing significant. YMMV
I'm hoping the red one makes a sharp right turn and dissipates in the north Atlantic. We'll see.
Looks like you "may" get your wish. At least for the turn to the right (north)... Not sure the folks in Bermuda will like this, but we will see
Sounds like much of California is going through what Texas went through earlier this summer. I started to post this in the EV thread but it is already controversial enough.
Quotes below are from the attached link.
"Californians will likely be asked to ease off on the air conditioning — and anything else that consumes electricity — during the heat wave that’s expected to last through Labor Day."
"Residents will be asked to turn up their thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, avoid using dishwashers or other large appliances, and hold off on charging their electric vehicles, all during the 4-9 p.m. time frame"
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article265113124.html
I guess we will look back at California as a laboratory for Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicles. I hope it all works without too much pain.
As some Black Hats used to say in Army jump school: Stress builds character.
My airborne buddy told about seeing a guy hit without chute deployment. Let us hope Cali can avoid similar stress.
That is why the intense training.
After exit, look up and see a big skirt opening over your head, if not, without thinking, perform the appropriate action for the existing malfunction, or, head down and pull the reserve chute's ripcord.
Once I had what is called a cigarette roll over head. After side door exit from C130. By the time I figured out the problem, my body was already doing the receovery action for that malfunction. Hence I am around to mention it.
Now return to normal weather problems.