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Sugar Land Dave · Posted: Sat 27 Apr, 2013 8:38 pm

Plants are getting hammered pretty good right now. Five inches of rain in the last hour with forecast for up to another three inches before evening. Shocked

Guess I am lucky that I finished putting hardie plank siding on my garage yesterday.

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Sugar Land Dave · Posted: Sun 28 Apr, 2013 1:39 am

Just checked outside. It is still raining and there is a couple of inches puddled in areas of the yard. I have good drainage, but it has been a long time since this much water has come from the sky around here. Over 7 inches!

I will see how things fared in the morning.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/27/17949426-storms-sweep-across-texas-and-the-south-dumping-up-to-7-inches-of-rain?lite

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j3u5a8n · Posted: Sun 28 Apr, 2013 4:49 am

Hope everything turns out okay.

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mrtexas · Posted: Sun 28 Apr, 2013 12:17 pm

Sugar Land Dave wrote:

Plants are getting hammered pretty good right now. Five inches of rain in the last hour with forecast for up to another three inches before evening. Shocked

Guess I am lucky that I finished putting hardie plank siding on my garage yesterday.

I was in Missouri City returning home to Beaumont when all the chaos started yesterday!

Sugar Land Dave · Posted: Sun 28 Apr, 2013 10:35 pm

I feel for you. Yesterday was not a good day to be on the road. To leave Home Depot building, I had to push past a crowd huddled at the door. No one wanted to get wet, but after 23 years in Seattle, water on my back isn't a problem, and I could somehow sense that it was a situation where I could leave when it started or be in a worse mess. I got home, left lumber in the car parked in the garage and ran into the house. Then it rained even harder.

Today the yard has mostly drained, everything is fine except for flowers I planted last week. They are about halfway beat-up, but will recover.

Welcome to Missouri City, Mr. T!

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GT · Posted: Sun 28 Apr, 2013 11:29 pm

I guess, we got less than one inch yesterday... So, you got all the rain! Wink

gdbanks · Posted: Mon 29 Apr, 2013 12:22 am

I'm really glad to get the rain. though in my area we did not get quite as much as your. i did loose power for about an hour which just made me got to bed earlier.

I'm happy for all the rain we get. when i comes down so fast i only wish it would be farther north of Houston to fill up aquifers.

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mrtexas · Posted: Mon 29 Apr, 2013 12:47 am

Sugar Land Dave wrote:

I feel for you. Yesterday was not a good day to be on the road. To leave Home Depot building, I had to push past a crowd huddled at the door. No one wanted to get wet, but after 23 years in Seattle, water on my back isn't a problem, and I could somehow sense that it was a situation where I could leave when it started or be in a worse mess. I got home, left lumber in the car parked in the garage and ran into the house. Then it rained even harder.

Today the yard has mostly drained, everything is fine except for flowers I planted last week. They are about halfway beat-up, but will recover.

Welcome to Missouri City, Mr. T!

I grew up and went to college in Seattle. I couldn't wait to get away from 9 months of constant drizzle....

Millet · Posted: Mon 29 Apr, 2013 12:53 am

Here in Bennett, CO, 35 miles east of Denver Colorado, our average yearly moisture TOTAL (including all rain and all snow ) is 12 inches/year. - Millet

Tropheus76 · Posted: Mon 29 Apr, 2013 9:42 am

Must be nice, we are still in drought conditions and a burn ban(thus the three dumpster size piles of limbs and palms waiting to be burned.) I dont think we have had any appreciable rain in a month and even that was about an hours worth. Send it this way!

Sugar Land Dave · Posted: Mon 29 Apr, 2013 5:18 pm

mrtexas wrote:

I grew up and went to college in Seattle. I couldn't wait to get away from 9 months of constant drizzle....

The low gray skies never really bothered me, but some people experienced much depression. Fortunately they now have light therapy boxes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/health/policy/light-boxes-may-help-melt-those-winter-blues.html?_r=0

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mrtexas · Posted: Tue 30 Apr, 2013 1:00 am

Sugar Land Dave wrote:

mrtexas wrote:

I grew up and went to college in Seattle. I couldn't wait to get away from 9 months of constant drizzle....

The low gray skies never really bothered me, but some people experienced much depression. Fortunately they now have light therapy boxes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/health/policy/light-boxes-may-help-melt-those-winter-blues.html?_r=0

I was born and raised in Seattle and graduated from UW in 1977. My dad arrived in 1945 and is still there. The problem with me was we left for 9 years starting in 1964 while I was 10-18. After living elsewhere the rain chased me away after I graduated.

Sugar Land Dave · Posted: Tue 30 Apr, 2013 1:24 am

mrtexas wrote:

Sugar Land Dave wrote:

mrtexas wrote:

I grew up and went to college in Seattle. I couldn't wait to get away from 9 months of constant drizzle....

The low gray skies never really bothered me, but some people experienced much depression. Fortunately they now have light therapy boxes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/health/policy/light-boxes-may-help-melt-those-winter-blues.html?_r=0

I was born and raised in Seattle and graduated from UW in 1977. My dad arrived in 1945 and is still there. The problem with me was we left for 9 years starting in 1964 while I was 10-18. After living elsewhere the rain chased me away after I graduated.

I came to Seatle in 79 after college years so we would be the same age or pretty close. I enjoyed the Bremerton Ferry, Seattle Center, and just browsing the little stores in Kent, Renton, Auburn, Tukwilla, the waterfront, and golfing at any course that would let in the general public, though I probably enjoyed Orting's course most simply from a nature viewpoint..

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Tropheus76 · Posted: Tue 30 Apr, 2013 9:33 am

Talk about ask and you shall recieve. Had enough rain last night that a new leak appeared in my house. Grrrr. Keep your rain, Dave lol.

mrtexas · Posted: Tue 30 Apr, 2013 10:18 am

Sugar Land Dave wrote:

mrtexas wrote:

Sugar Land Dave wrote:

mrtexas wrote:

I grew up and went to college in Seattle. I couldn't wait to get away from 9 months of constant drizzle....

The low gray skies never really bothered me, but some people experienced much depression. Fortunately they now have light therapy boxes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/health/policy/light-boxes-may-help-melt-those-winter-blues.html?_r=0

I was born and raised in Seattle and graduated from UW in 1977. My dad arrived in 1945 and is still there. The problem with me was we left for 9 years starting in 1964 while I was 10-18. After living elsewhere the rain chased me away after I graduated.

I came to Seatle in 79 after college years so we would be the same age or pretty close. I enjoyed the Bremerton Ferry, Seattle Center, and just browsing the little stores in Kent, Renton, Auburn, Tukwilla, the waterfront, and golfing at any course that would let in the general public, though I probably enjoyed Orting's course most simply from a nature viewpoint..

Very nice place to visit the last week in July and first week in August, the two best weeks for no rain along with the cool summer temperatures! Dear old dad worked for the Boeing Company from 1944-1982.