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
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We’re headed down I-45 Friday from DFW toward Houston and everytime I go down there after ANY rain, some of the bridges barely cover water crossings. Interestingly enough, I haven’t heard a great deal about I-45 (perhaps I missed it) being washed out. We’ll see Friday.
Well it should make for a good deer hunting season this year.
Check out Chuck Pierce's recent words about this rain. gloryofzion.org , I think.
Been there a few times. Worst strip joints ever! ;)
That’s fine. That just means tortillas in Mexico will cost more and cause more illegals to cross the border.
Apparently he wasn’t around here in 1973: San Antonio got 4 more inches of rain in June of that year than this year, and an additional 13 inches in September, 52 inches for the whole year.
I remember that year; most miserable vacation from school I ever had - it was like this year has been, rain every stinking day.
I wasn't sure so I just googled it and found out that yes we are. The article said we are about 11th in the country in corn production.
What we do grow a lot of is sweet corn but I think thats done more by small farmers for local markets. We are really suffering here with the heat and lack of rain so it will be interesting to see how it affects their corn production come September.......
A few years back I was on a pheasant hunting trip to N.W. Kansas (Logan) and stayed at a Bed and breakfast one of the nights that was owned by a lady in her mid 90's.
She told some of the most increadible stories of her life such as when her father had drilled a well by using 2 mules attached to a thing like Samson was.
Then when her father had decided to move the house into town and they did it by lifting it onto some sort of sled and towed it into town by mule train.
Then she told of what it was like living thru the "Dust Bowl" back in the '30s.........If only Gore had been there then.
The par three #18 at Lago Vista is a real water hole now. Most of the area between the tee and green was water.
The grass is growing so fast, I have to mow every three or four days. It is almost to the point that you have to start mowing AGAIN - the day you finish mowing.
“Excuse my ignorance - but isn’t LV situated in the middle of a desert???”
“high desert”... we used to get a lot more rain.. we even get snow and freezing temps.
well.. it’s sort of a bowl... fortunately I’m in a higher elevation of that bowl. unfortunately all the $$casinos$$ are at the bottom of that bowl.
Thanks AH!
Getting some good ground level photo ops Valerie? (repost of #11)
LOL.
Or fortunately, depending on how you look at it.
Sorry, I just found this. Isn’t the lake unbelievable? Did you come across the Twin Bridges on Hwy 6?
Hiya
It’s been too wet to get many pics. I tried to photograph fireworks on the 4th of July, but the 2 inches of rain we got early in the day caused the celebration to be postponed — until September!!!
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