[WestTexasWend]

Yesterdays precip (including 3.6" that fell in one hour) follows a week of rain and capped what was already a record-breaking wet summer. When you're praying for Ike's potential victims, throw in a line for the South Plains, where there are no rivers/streams to carry away the excess.

[kittymyrib]

Thanks for this report, WTW. While the TV weathermen are hyping Ike, there is terrible flooding on the Plains from TX to KS to OK from a Pacific storm that no one was watching. I guess there’s just not enough drama out there in flat country.

[crusty old prospector]

CLIMATE... LUBBOCK AIRPORT AT 7.46 INCHES OF RAINFALL ON THURSDAY BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 2.64 INCHES SET IN 1917. IT ALSO BREAKS BOTH THE ALL-TIME CALENDAR DAY TOTAL AND THE ALL-TIME 24-HOUR RAINFALL TOTAL. PREVIOUS RECORDS WERE 5.70 INCHES ON JUNE 1 1967 AND 5.82 INCHES ON OCTOBER 18-19 1983.

I was there for the big snow of 1983 and my daughter is there for the big rain of 2008. We got a call at midnight last night from some automated computer system telling us that classes were cancelled. I guess because my daughter put our home phone number as the emergency contact.

[secret garden]

Any word from Whyisagirl?

[vetvetdoug]

The Wichita River has overflowed twice in the last two years...unheard of for Wichita County. The Red River at the stateline at Burkburnett is usually a trickle but the river has gone from bank to bank several times. The foliage being green there is quite unique, usually this time of year the area is brown and the stock tanks are mudholes.