Hey Kevin

[turd]

Are you under water in Dallas? Hopefully you live somewhere that didn't get quite as much rain?

 

[whittsailor]

Well, until Kevin chimes in, I live west of Fort Worth and so thankful for the rain. Man it’s been too dry for too long this Summer. And the cooler temperature is a blessing too.

 

[Kevin]

Thanks for the thoughts. I guess I live under a rock. I know it’s raining of course. But we have a pool out back. It’s only up just a couple inches. So my little bubble didn’t get much rain at all compared to what I’m hearing.

I also have seen any power outages, which I assume would go along with flooding.

 

[Kevin]

Well, until Kevin chimes in, I live west of Fort Worth and so thankful for the rain. Man it’s been too dry for too long this Summer. And the cooler temperature is a blessing too.

Do you know how much rain you got over the last couple days?

 

[Kevin]

One more thought:
When we bought this house I didn’t think about flooding at all. Thankfully we actually live at the very top of a very tiny hill. You wouldn’t know there is a bill here until you get out and walk around the neighborhood. Very small, but just enough, thank goodness.

 

[turd]

Good to hear both of you are OK. The news is showing some pretty serious flooding. I know the metro is a pretty big area, just wondered.

 

[Kevin]

Oh yes it’s big. I’m in basically the northeast corner of DFW, if I drove to the far southwest corner of DFW, it might take 90 minutes or more.

I don’t know where the area is that is flooded.

 

[whittsailor]

Do you know how much rain you got over the last couple days?

I’m in the Weatherford area, so around 3 inches, not including today.

 

[mr surveyor]

Here, about 130 miles to the East, we've had 8 inches of rain in the last 48 hours. Well needed.


jd

 

[Wyandot Jim]

I think Dallas got 10" in a 24 hour period. I'm at Son's 10 miles North of Ft Worth and he got 7" in about 12-15 hours. Very well needed. No flooding in this area. Some of the freeways in the DFW area were shut down.

 

[jimbo1096]

I think the rain has moved over here, couldn't see to drive to work it was raining so hard and the street in front of the house had water backed up halfway up the yard. Some areas had 5" according to the 10 o'clock news last night. The old saying "when it rains, it pours" references to more than just salt .

 

[blume357]

Couple of years back the central part of S.C. got something like 20" in less than 24 hours... I know a guy who was trying to get home around Columbia and he said dumpsters were floating down the street.... You don't want to get hit by one of those... up here in the upstate we were fine.

 

[Gopher]

I'm in far, far, far, North Dallas (roughly 50 miles north) and we got less than 2.5 inches over three days. We needed it but could use about six inches spread out over four or five days. Still cracks in my yard big enough to swallow a baby quail.
About all it did was make the grass grow enough to have to mow again.