Posted on 07/10/2007 4:44:05 PM PDT by blam
Photo in the News: Texas Goes Green After Record Rainfall
A deluge of torrential rains has lashed the Lone Star State for more than a month—making June one of the wettest ever recorded in Texas.
Spurring Texas' grassy plains to bloom dense vegetation, as seen in a photograph taken by a NASA satellite between June 11 and June 20.
The deep, emerald green indicates regions where plants are growing more quickly or robust than average, and the dark, almost-black color marks where vegetation was most dense.
Brown spots point to clouds or water on the ground, which in some cases may mask plant growth.
About 48,000 square miles (124,319 square kilometers), an area the size of Mississippi, was pounded by rains. Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas were hit with more than 330 percent of their average rainfall. In Texas, every major river basin flooded, an event that had not occurred since 1957, according to the Associated Press.
Powerful floods also took the lives of more than a dozen people and destroyed an estimated thousand homes.
"Unprecedented," Jack Colley, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, told the AP. "Mostly this time of year we're fighting wildfires. ... The problem with this is, the water won't go away."
—Christine Dell'Amore
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
All my ex’s are in Texas.
Ahhhh.... Fresh Air
send some of that rain here to Las Vegas! we haven’t seen rain in over a year!
Thanks. Very pretty. Hasn’t rained in this part of Texas for a record 3 days. But the mosquitoes are the size of buzzards.
Your monsoon season is coming up over the next 6-12 weeks.
Be patient.
Welcome to Free Republic.
I’ve been in Vegas 10- years... have yet to see a monsoon. an inch of rain in one sitting will close everything down and flood the entire dirt bowl but haven’t seen that in years either!
Our ranch in Burnet County is looking good for July. Despite a couple of water gaps getting washed out - this is turning out to be an exceptionally good summer. The tanks are full which is not the norm for July.
Also, I understand the Edwards aquifer is full and San Antonio wont have to do any mandatory water conservation for the summer.
Unfortunately, there has been tragic loss of life and homes destroyed.
Rhot rou -
Isaih: 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
signs of ...???
/sarc off
Getting some good ground level photo ops Valerie?
With the lakes overtopping the dams, they finally ended the water restrictions. Now if it will quit raining long enough, I’ll turn the sprinklers on.
And on the flipside, we’ve had so much rain and clouds that it not only drowned but sent my brand new bermuda grass into dormancy. I’m not happy.
Not true!
They said on the radio this morning that we have had 3/10th's of an inch since last November.
Like my water bill and lawn can really see the diff!
‘Cuz all my ex’s Live in Texas
Cause Texas is the place I really love to Be
But all my ex’s live in Texas
That’s why I reside in Tennessee!
It sounds like an inch of rain ‘is’ a monsoon there.
I’ll do a rain dance.
Are you on a valley or a hill?
Ironically, the lake was down about 67 feet from normal before the rains came, due to the years of drought we have been experiencing. God is in His heaven and knows what He's doing. Al Gore thinks he's God, and some day, he will have a rude awakening.
We spent a week in Texas (June 25-July 1) and I must admit, I have never seen Texas so green. Areas that even in “average” years are already turning brown were extremely bright green.
Of course, every creek and river we crossed were out of their banks or nearly so.
Are we surprised that the threaded article fails to mention that with the rain has come unseasonably cooler temperatures. In fact, the temps were 10 degrees below normal in many areas long enough to probably take this year’s overall average high temps lower... THen again, that might be a slap in the fact to the Global Warmers....
The disturbance that parked over Texas for a month is now a few hundred miles East - and bringing lots of rain here in Arkansas... So things which had started to dry out are now very green as well. It is heck on the garden, though... blew our last round of corn down, and has standing water in most of the garden...
But with highs in the low - mid 80’s when it normally would be bumping 100.... I won’t complain!
Twenty seven homes flooded in my city from rain only.
The Guadalupe hasn’t even overflowed it’s banks but we are 23 inches OVER the annual rainfall index for this year already!
Excuse my ignorance - but isn't LV situated in the middle of a desert???
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