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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1
(Post 4562467)
All is high and dry here at Rosehill.....but starting about a mile down the road and you start running into flooded streets and high water....most of the freeways are even flooded! People are drowning in their cars, driving into high water, trying to get to work! That is what is so sad.....driving out into what all was taking place, in spite of all the warnings and instructions to stay off the streets, stay at home.....so unnecessary, those deaths....why dont people listen?????
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Originally Posted by TxVicki
(Post 4562486)
I am so sick of this rain. I wish it would just stop. I know my area DFW has had some flooding. My back yard can't stand to have any more rain. As it is now I have a rain made lake in my yard. LOL they said we have at least 7 more day's of rain in the forecast. ARGGGGGGG
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Been thinking about you all & Linda and Kendra, hoping everyone is safe. I especially worry out Judy & Linda after last night. Had no idea Houston had such a bad night until I learned this morning people were kept in the Toyota Center for a while after the game until the immediate flooding cleared out but some still hadn't left this morning apparently since they have to travels through or live where the water is still dangerously high.
I've always heard droughts are stopped by floods but this is amazingly fast. So much water, over and over and over for weeks. Tibbe has almost forgotten what its like to play outside on the lawn in dry mode with the sun warming things! He's so short he always comes in wet from his short little legs keeping him so low down in the St. Augustine grass that seems to retain moisture for a couple days or more after a rain or dense dew and then we get more and more of both.
The lawn was mowed Friday & the St. Augustine has already grown 3 - 4 inches! That stuff is super aggressive in warm, damp weather with occasional sun and grows like weeds. Looks like a thick, solid green carpet all around the house, front, back and sides and Tibbe has to struggle to walk through it after it's had a growth spurt while its still very wet. He's only 9" at the withers and 7 lbs. & his legs just not long enough to be all that effective going through that thick, thick, long stuff. Seems to take him forever to get from the outside edge of the yard to the back porch!
Jilly was only 3 lbs. but she was slightly higher on leg and could sprite through the grass easier somehow. Maybe she walked on top of it - hehe. She was so light & her feet so tiny, she almost never got muddy feet even when she walked across a muddy spot on the sidewalk!
Once Tibbe gets into the Utility Room, it's a full dry off with towels that I have to hang up to dry until next potty session!
Something is chirping/wooing at me from my computer - maybe one of the weather service alerts or an update nag. It's a new sound, more like an "a-choo" than anything!!! Maybe this thing has gotten a cold from all this cool weather and rain, rain,rain!
Did you hear about the Homecoming Queen drowning coming home from the prom?!?! Poor kid, probably just had one of the happiest days of her life and then she dies on her way home - within a couple of miles I think it was! And the mom and her 2 kids, in her wrecked cabin rushing down the river as the structure came apart. Dad was found, mom, kids still missing. Story after story like that.
Ya'll stay safe, especially you girls down there in Houston area. Up here in D/FW area, we've got another week at least of a overcast, partly cloudy/cloudy weather with chances of rain every day, some fairly high chances and if Houston has anything like that in its forecast in the next 2 - 3 days, it could be horrendous on top of that standing water.
Better go & see why my laptop is sneezing.
