I worked in Fulshear Saturday morning. With the frequent morning downpours, we didn't have much walk-in traffic, so I got most of my odds and ends finished. When I left for home, it began to rain again, but not too heavy.....until I got almost to East Bernard. By then, it was raining very hard, so I pulled off into a service station parking lot. I had my iPhone weather radar and watched for a slack time in the rain. I stayed in East Bernard about an hour before the rain subsided enough to allow me to continue toward home.
Once home, I had a message from Lisa to call her. It was still raining a little, and I figured I would have better reception outside anyway, so I just stayed in the car. The rains came again, and I was able to escape from the car to the house after about half an hour!
A couple of hours later...and much more rain....I ventured out to retrieve Taylor from a birthday party. The rain had quit, but the waters were still rising on some of the streets. My new little Jetta does pretty well as a boat! When Taylor and I got home, the rains came again. After another trip to and from town for a play, we saw the water in our almost-dry creek had almost reached its capacity. My guess is that we had somewhere between 8 and 12 inches of rain around our house. I know our 5 inch gauge would not have held all the rain.
Today the waters have started to recede a lot, but the creek is still full. The corn plants close to our house must have grown 6 inches overnight! Our new grass area turned much greener with all that water. Even if it was a little much packed into a short time, we are so thankful for the rain that no one is complaining!!
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