About a half inch here so far...rains pretty hard but only for a few minutes. Happy it's not flooding though, and happy to get some rain period.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/cap ... ng-sunday/

Thunder woke me up...Checked KHOU Radar...nothing.

Checked here http://www.my-cast.com/#77565,+TX and lots of rain in my area.

Why so different?

I am going to water as usual, not change any plans..if it rains great...if not everything will still be limping along.

A good rule of thumb when watering trees...

When you set out your sprinkler, put an empty tuna fish can in the yard.
When the can is full you have watered that section enough. Time it and you will know how long to run the water.

Same here Susie...brief rain yesterday...Thunder this am woke me up at dark thirty. No actual rain though, just cloudy.

Wish I could forget Ike. In this video, at the 4:07 mark a porta-potty where my ex house was...and in the same shot a little further down the street my RV that we lived in for about 7 months after. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GblAshibsRk More in Seabrook after Ike. They had K9"s searching fo...

on the user control panel of this board is a feature by which you can "manage foes" & not even have to see a post they make when you are logged in - y'all are letting the trolls control this board by even responding to them and that's a shame - it is a great board with many great post...

Oh good lord AZ..READ YOUR OWN POST! "the forecast was for a 30% chance of "scattered" showers". It does not mean 30% of the area will get rain. it means there 30% chance that a rain cloud will drop rain somewhere..hence the word "scattered". So basically, the predictio...

I was hoping formore than an inch.... Don't these blobs usually dump some heavy tropical rains?? Oh well.... Just a question. Isn't this in the same area Alicia formed? Not expecting or wishing for another Alicia...just curious Similar in location to Alicia http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/atl...

Jason...that is why I just finished watering my yard. I hope it rains...but lately whenever a lot of rain is expected it just simply does not happen. No one fault...it's weather.

SusieinLP wrote:txflagwaver,
Did you get any rain? It's still raining here in La Porte...

Not really..really light rain for the most part. Only enough to fill one rain barrel as of this am. It seems to split right over my area. Nothing by the Bay here .

Guess I will go put out the water hose

This is a little closer to home...

http://www.license.state.tx.us/weather/summary.htm

The FAQ's

http://www.license.state.tx.us/weather/weatherfaq.htm

Was hopeful this am when the thunder rolled and I heard rain tapping on the roof...

5 minutes later it was gone...

Not even enough to wet the driveway...

The video is kind of elementary but yes..there has to be clouds for the process to work "Technicians with the Beijing Weather Modification Office said they fired seven rocket shells containing 163 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide over the city's skies. They claimed it provoked a chemical ...