Showing posts with label flooding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flooding. Show all posts
Monday, August 28, 2017
My brain has been anywhere but here...
Between the fourth Navy ship collision in Asian waters this year (only August people) and Hurricane Harvey, not much has been on my mind except two of my children--Sonshine in the Navy in the Asian waters and my Brown-Eyed Girl in the vicinity of Harvey.
Sonshine is really the safer of the two as much of South Texas is getting submerged. There's just no where for the water to go. Luckily, the Brown-Eyed Girl and her roommate live on the third floor. But they're pretty much stuck there for the duration, which will probably three or four more days. In addition to the rain itself, Lake Conroe, located just north of where my baby lives is full, full, full and is overflowing/being drained, and because the earth is already saturated, it just runs down the streets and sidewalk. So yeah.
DD is safe and sound here with us, so that's good.
Please keep my oldest and my youngest in your thoughts and prayers.
Of course so many folks have it way worse, so also pray for South Texas, our leaders and our citizens. If you have any cash to spare, please give to the Red Cross.
Friday, May 29, 2015
Here Comes the Sun
No, it's not Music Monday, but we've had a pretty soggy time of it here in Texas so the title seemed fitting.
We're nearing June and we've had so much rain. We've needed it, there's no doubt, though maybe not so much all at once. I have to imagine that just about all our 254 counties should be out of drought conditions by this point. According to one station, our local PBS station, this is the wettest month ever in recorded history. I can well believe it.
My yards are saturated, and puddles sit for hours. The lawn leaks down the driveway for hours as well.
I can't say I'm displeased with the fact that I've had the lowest electricity bills for the last two months since we haven't had to run the AC much, but I'm ready for some sunshine and, yes, some heat.
Have a great weekend--may the sun be with you!
Friday, June 17, 2011
WHY?
Why are we here in Texas (among other places) experiencing a drought and the upper mid-west anywhere along the Missouri River has been flooded??
Farms, homes, business, wildlife destroyed...
Most of my family, who lives in an Omaha suburb, is fine. Although, my step-mother says that if the water wasn't being "controlled" (HA HA HA HA HA) they'd be wet too. They live only three miles due west of the river. (See the red X.) Luckily the area is somewhat hilly, so they are above normal river levels.
If we can build the Alaska Pipeline, surely we could have put some sort of system in place to pipe all this water to places the need it, like Arizona or Texas?? I mean we had to have known this was coming, right?
Are we just that stupid or complacent or lazy? We must be.
I am feeling decidedly helpless.
What can I do? What difference can I make? It all seems so very hopeless.
Farms, homes, business, wildlife destroyed...
Most of my family, who lives in an Omaha suburb, is fine. Although, my step-mother says that if the water wasn't being "controlled" (HA HA HA HA HA) they'd be wet too. They live only three miles due west of the river. (See the red X.) Luckily the area is somewhat hilly, so they are above normal river levels.
If we can build the Alaska Pipeline, surely we could have put some sort of system in place to pipe all this water to places the need it, like Arizona or Texas?? I mean we had to have known this was coming, right?
Are we just that stupid or complacent or lazy? We must be.
I am feeling decidedly helpless.
What can I do? What difference can I make? It all seems so very hopeless.
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