Yesterday's weather forecast for last night, and today, with today being the final day of the 2025 version of April, turned out to be accurate.
Rain began falling in pounding downpour mode around 8 o'clock last night, with one loud burst of hail.
Thunder began storming a couple hours after midnight, with more downpours.
By dawn's early light it was not too bright, due to the dark clouds and heavy rain.
A couple hours before noon I headed to downtown Wichita Falls, to my favorite prescription drug dealer, and the library, to do some book returning.
And then it was on to Lucy Park, finding all three entries to Lucy Park blocked, with it assumed the blockage being due to the anticipated overflow of the Wichita River, flooding Lucy Park.
I have seen Lucy Park flooded once, a few years ago.
Today's flood is expected to be worse, possibly as bad as the flood of 2007, several years before my arrival in this town.
After being denied entry into Lucy Park, it was on to rain-free Walmart for my daily dose of endorphins acquired via high-speed walking.
And then I headed south, to Lake Wichita, to see if water was falling over the Lake Wichita dam spillway for the first time in years.
As you can see, via the above photo documentation, water is spilling over the Lake Wichita dam today.
And some guy is standing in the water, near the spilling water, fishing.
Multiple fish were seen leaping out of the water at the bottom of the spillway. Where did these fish come from, one could not help but wonder. What with the area below the dam being totally free of any water for years.
Perplexing..
No comments:
Post a Comment