A Break From The Great Texas Drought Of 2011 With A Wet Rainy Sunday Drive To A Leaking Sam's Club

You are looking through my windshield at my neighborhood Sam's Club, seeing something I have not seen in awhile.

That something is the windshield wiper wiping rain off the windshield.

I don't know at what time in the middle of the night I realized water was blowing in through my open window, so I don't know how long it has been raining.

What I do know is it almost an hour after noon and it is still raining.

But, the sky does appear to be brightening. The drips seem to be greatly lessening. I suspect the rain will soon come to a halt and the Great Texas Drought of 2011 can re-commence.

In Sam's Club today I saw more buckets catching more leaks than I have ever seen in a store before. Buckets were all over the store.

And many leaks did not have buckets catching the drips.

I suspect because of the long HOT summer, with day after day baking the Sam's Club roof, that havoc has been wreaked on the roof's  dozens of skylights and flashings that are supposed to waterproof those holes in the roof.

I imagine Monday is going to be a very busy day for roofers in North Texas.

A few paragraphs back I said it was almost an hour past noon. I got interrupted. It is now 3 hours past noon. My mom called at about the hour past noon mark. And then lunch intervened.

And, now that it is past 3 on this Sunday afternoon, the rain has finally stopped falling at my location on this formerly parched part of the planet. The sun has not broken through the cloud cover. By morning I think sunniness will have returned.

Rain Is Falling On The Great Texas Drought Of 2011 In This Parched Part Of The Planet

Looking at the patio pool view this 2nd Sunday of October you can see this is not one more sunny Sunday in Texas.

What you can not see in the picture is it is RAINING!

At some point in the middle of the night I had to shut my bedroom window due to incoming rain.

And the incoming rain continues.

I do not know if I want to go swimming in the rain this morning. It has been awhile since I've done that.

I do know there will be no Tandy Hills hiking today. And probably not tomorrow either.

The First Monday Of October Dawns With Aches & Pains & Weather Geeks Descending Upon Fort Worth

Looking through the bars of my patio prison cell on the first Monday of October you can sort of tell that the sun has already begun its daily heating duties.

What you can not tell via the picture is it is only 58 degrees in the outer world in my location.

I am not going swimming this morning. Not going swimming is not due to the near freezing temperature. Not going swimming is due to not feeling too good. As in I'm sort of aching all over.

Yesterday I helped with the dismantling of a Big Screen TV so that it could be disposed of. You would think this would be no big deal. You would think wrong. So many screws to unscrew. So many heavy parts. It was interesting though. I did not know that inside a rear projection TV there was a giant mirror.

Switching the subject from my aching pains back to the weather.

I read an interesting bit of news this morning in Mount Vernon, Washington's Skagit Valley Herald that I did not notice in this morning's Fort Worth Star-Telegram. I may have missed it in the Star-Telegram, but in Mount Vernon's paper I learned that today in Fort Worth federal and state weather forecasters and climatologists are meeting to brainstorm about the Great Texas Drought of 2011.

The Great Texas Drought of 2011 has already cost the Texas cattle and agriculture business over $5 billion. And now a new La Nina is brewing in the Pacific's equatorial zone, which means it will likely be another dry winter.

I can't imagine what a bunch of weather geeks meeting in Fort Worth are going to do about the Great Texas Drought of 2011.

Maybe the weather geeks will issue a proclamation proclaiming that whilst Texas is in the midst of a drought, wasting fresh water with Barnett Shale natural gas well fracking should be refrained from and that a water pipeline should be built by the gas drillers to suck fracking water from the Gulf of Mexico instead of using scarce potable water.