Posted on 06/27/2007 2:52:48 PM PDT by Graybeard58
I’m from Kilgore originally.
You and me both.
I'm actually enjoying the evening rains, at least when the lightning isn't so bad. Kinda refreshing, taking the dog for a walk in the rain.
I was in Houston in the 70s/80s. I think it was around 76/77, we had a string of rain so bad that people were actually getting nasty about it. I recall a stretch of about 3+ months were we had something like 6 minutes of sunshine. I was fairly young, but I recall hearing about comparisons being made to the suicide rate in Sweden during winter in places far north that basically don't get sunshine during winter.
Overall, it hasn't been so bad here, as the neighborhood I recently moved to seems to have pretty decent drainage. It's nothing like it was in Houston when I was younger and we'd break out the canoes for cruising up adn down the street!
WOW.
Fortunately I'm about 20 feet above the waterline. If we flood, God's just making sure that Texas becomes an ocean again.
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