Flood warnings...

On Monday, I posted that the weather weasels had missed it once again on the rain forecast: we didn't get any.  That has changed.

Rain can pretty much run off our island.  Many areas in south Texas are lower than sea level... meaning when the heavy rains hit, they are going to flood.  The rains have come - some places inland (Wesleco, Mercedes) have had over 11 inches of rain in past 24 hours.  Harlingen has had 14 inches of rain in the past two days.  (Our storage unit is near Harlingen.)  The local news has been breaking into regular broadcasting with images of the flooding.  At one point, local weather reported rain coming down at the rate of 6" per hour.  Sheesh.

More rain predicted through tonight and into tomorrow.  The flood warnings will not likely affect our island, but any direction we go from here could be affected.

The whole area has been behind normal year to date rain levels.  One weather caster actually said, "We will need a hurricane to make a close pass to catch up on our rain levels."  For the record, there hasn't been much wind with these storms, other than right where the biggest cells are... but, the rain has come.