We got thunder and lighting, maybe rain.

[texanwitch]

I washed the truck yesterday.

[Moondog]

1. If you just washed it, you're doomed. Rain for sure ....

[leeroysphitz]

2. .

[Richardo]

3. I heard the thunder - I'm in the Galleria

I can see rain to the west.... I hope I hope I hope

[texanwitch]

6. It is raining here.

Hope it gets your way.

[Texasgal]

4. Nothing but a piss shower here

and another hot ass day... GAHHHHHHHH!!!

[texanwitch]

5. It is raining but not really hard.

Any rain is welcome.


It is a lot cooler outsider.

[merh]

7. my neighbor was washing his car yesterday afternoon

the clouds started rolling in and I begged him to keep washing it so we could get some rain.

Sure enough, as soon as he was finished, it began to rain. :rofl:

We had some rain today too, I'm sure glad he washed his car.

[texanwitch]

10. My truck was so dirty some smart ass wrote on the truck Please Wash Me.

Well, if it made it rain it was worth it.

[merh]

12. that's exactly what my neighbor said

we normally have about 5 inches of rain by the end of June, with yesterday's rain and today's rain, we might make 2 inches.

It has been too hot and too dry. x(

[txwhitedove]

8. Nada in Spring, just wind and thunder. It won't rain until we start roof

repairs tomorrow!

:hi:

[texanwitch]

9. That will do it.

The rain was waiting for a hole in the roof.:hi:

[hobbit709]

11. Diddly squat here and it's still 97° at 8 PM

[Spacemom]

13. We got a little bit here just outside Austin

You could see the steam rising off the concrete.

[kentauros]

14. Geez! it's all breaking up as it gets to S Post Oak!

http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?zoommode=zoom&num=6&delay=15&rbscale=0.5608695652173913&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&ID=HGX&type=N0R&lat=29.71940041&lon=-95.22284698&label=Houston,%20TX&showstorms=0&map.x=371&map.y=204¢erx=400¢ery=240&lightning=0&smooth=0&showlabels=1&rainsnow=0

Thunder and lightning on all sides and none of the liquid stuff.

[texanwitch]

15. Then I will not tell you that it rained for about 20 minutes here.

Nice slow rain.

:yoiks:

[kentauros]

16. I'm sorry

did you say something?

:P

[texanwitch]

17. Well, I did wash and wax the truck yesterday in all that heat.

:hide:

[kentauros]

18. Rehydrating yourself now is a bit late

so I hope you did so right after you did that dirty deed

[texanwitch]

19. I had a nice semi-frozen bottle of water with me.

Then I came in and had a cold :beer:

[kentauros]

20. I had a cold one with dinner

Wow! I just noticed that it's only 80F in this room and it's not even 3ayem yet! :D

[texanwitch]

22. The rain has cooled things off.

I walked to the little store for Mexican a coke and didn't sweat.

[kentauros]

24. I was out trying to take pics of the lightning

and loved the coolness of the air. Didn't get any good pics though. It was like suddenly everyone was "Big storms comin'! Let's get out and drive around!" Because the amount of traffic on my street seemed to increase exponentially.

[texanwitch]

26. It is just that they didn't remember what rain was.

I am so glad for the rain with the 4th coming up.

The old railroad yard had lots of really dry weeds.

If some fool would have been using bottle rockets like last year, the yard could have caught on fire.

[kentauros]

29. That's probably it.

"Old railroad yard"? The only one yard I know of in the Heights area (near TC Jester) is still in business, unless it's been shut down in recent years...

Looking over Google Maps now, finding lots of old spur lines :)

[texanwitch]

34. That's it.

Half of it is still in use.

The other half was bought for townhouses, in a flood plain.

The good news is that that the income has killed the project. for now.

What there is left is lots of weeds of all kinds.

Great dog walking space.

If you really want to cry look at what happened to the woods, the middle was cut out and left.

[kentauros]

35. Google Maps and Google Earth are often several years behind

so I'd have to drive over there to see the damage. It is ridiculous what we allow in this town for developers...

I did find some derelict warehouses over off Clinton (after following old rr track beds) where it looks like someone built homes inside of the still standing walls. No roofs, just very tall walls, likely made of concrete. Good use of existing structures, though you wouldn't get much sun :)

[texanwitch]

36. I loved woods, everybody did.

It was about 25 acres with a creek.

Never cut, just natural.

Then it was bought but left alone for many years due to the big flood 2001,

The railroad yard and woods were under 3 ot 4 ft of water.

Two years ago the delevoper cut out the middle of the woods and did nothing.

Now there is nothing but weeds there.

The back area is still nice for walking but hard to get to now with all weeds.

Everyone knew about the woods. it was a nice place to walk.:cry:

[kentauros]

37. Cast about a bunch of hemp seeds

then turn in the owner of the property for cultivating marijuana :D

I've often wanted to put scads of hemp seeds in Estes rockets and fire them into the clear-cut lands of International Paper, then turn them in for cultivation ;)

[texanwitch]

38. Bush was good for something.

His 8 years in office killed so many jobs nobody can buy townhouses here.

There are lots of empty townhouses here, a lot cheaper.

[Kali]

21. we are finally getting a nice shower

it got real dark to the north a couple hours ago an the wind was blowing pretty good. Radar showed storm warnings and nice big storms make a big 50 mile half circle around us. I was getting bummed, but now we are having a nice steady RAIN.

The big exciting storms are fun but this is way better for the ground. :toast:

[texanwitch]

23. Yes.

Aren't you glad I washed the truck.

[kentauros]

25. Next time

wash your truck on this side of town. There's a nice Bubbles car wash over on W Belfort near Willowbend :D

[texanwitch]

27. Next time I will.

I was trying to water the grass at the same time.

I was so soaked with sweat after I was finished.

[kentauros]

30. Well, at least your grass got some extra electrolytes

:P

[texanwitch]

33. That was late in the afternoon.

It was still like 100.

I didn't have any sweat left.

[Kali]

28. Oh sorry - yes thankyou!

It helps that I need to replace the drivers side window on mine, though.
And it really helps that today I ordered replacement dishes and a fork instead of the roll-up thingy for the window, huh?

[kentauros]

31. Was the fork $20?

:P

[Kali]

32. mine was only $12

which could buy a lot of ramen, I know. :hide: