If you said, "The way you love me is fright'ning, guess I better knock, knock, knock - on wood, Eddie Floyd, 1967," you get 50 bonus points. And, you have good taste in old R&B music. Yeah, that song has been covered by a lot of people since that time.
This isn't about that song, even though it makes me smile. I was getting ready to go out for a bicycle ride this morning, when Rufus trotted to the door and said, "Walk?"
"Sure, buddy," and I went to get his harness and leash. We weren't out more than a couple minutes... when I felt a drip. Yep, it's starting to sprinkle. We were on the south side of the house, and it was coming from the south. I said to Rufus, "Didn't your Momma teach you to come in out of the rain?"
With his thick fur (a lot thicker than what's left of the hair on my head), he wasn't feeling the rain. Yet. He wanted to walk down to the dock and around the other side of the house. The rain was starting to come down more, but we had some protection on this side of the house.
About that time, we saw Susan and Tessa (Rufus's big dog friend). Rufus has been quite tentative around dogs after the incident this summer, but he marched right up to Susan and Tessa... and the big furry boy and much bigger furry K9 girl got nose-to-nose. Then, we all realized we were getting wet. Ruf took a second to munch some grass, then headed for our front door. The boy is, apparently, smart enough to come in out of the rain.
Seconds after we got inside, the first clap of thunder. Ruf may have less worry about dogs, but the thunder still brings back that ugly hail storm. Kitty hugs ensued. And, no, I didn't get in a bike ride.
Looks like it is going to be a Netflix kinda day.
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The rain never let up. At 5:30 pm, there are now 8 local Flood Warning Alerts in effect. Not much of an issue here on the island, since the water can flow off; but for streets in the coastal towns, I would expect plenty of flooding and standing water. Local weather is showing it worse a bit inland (from Brownsville to Harlingen).
A really odd occurrence this afternoon: looking out into our canal, you could see the water moving in opposite directions on either side of the canal vs down the middle; water flowing into the canal (in the middle) and water being pushed by wind on the sides of the canal. "Football Friday" will be impacted around the Rio Grande Valley (you know it is nasty when local high school football gets postphoned); there is a night-time Air Show that is supposed to happen over the Entertainment District on SPI - that isn't going to happen.
Rain totals for the day in the Lower Rio Grande Valley are between 2.5 and 8" so far; about 3" here.
On the local news...
Street flooding...
It's an issue with the flat terrain in the Valley; heavy rain fills the storm drains and the water has no place to go.
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