[Dusty Road]

I feel for them but we have our own water problems out here in West Texas, the lakes we've been depending on for over 50 years are drying up big time. We need rain of biblical proportions or we dry up. We have water wells on the ranch and they get us by but even they are suffering and those levels dropping daily. The extended drought has obviously cause this but I think we ranchers may be part of the problem also. Our is a big ranch with the largest part being 32 sections and we have a total of 16 stock tanks for catching surface run off but that also catches water that would have normally just been a tributary feeding the larger lakes.

[sergeantdave]

Had severe water shortages in South Carolina, but then God sent the bucket brigades over the state and solved the problem. A few days last summer rain was falling at the rate of an inch an hour. Hope He hears your calls and gets you out of the water problem.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I lived in TX for almost 10 years, (Houston area) and we had no shortage of rain when I was there. It’s hard to imagine it any different, although I don’t doubt your word.

The problem with rain in TX is the flash floods that seem to follow! I remember allowing (forcing) a young man (16) to hole up in my house for the afternoon when the streets flooded almost to the front doors on the houses. He was driving my son home from school and thought he could make it to his house (a mile away and on lower ground) because he was sure that his Volkswagon would float!

“Sit down. There’s a desk, a lamp, and a phone. Here’s a plate of cookies and a glass of milk. Call your mother and wait it out.”

He was gone in an hour as the water receded. LOL.