I left Texas in '07, moved to Chicago for 3 years, moved to California for 2, and arrived back in San Antonio for my new job/life late last night. Went out for dinner tonight, and ... real rain, Texas style. Sky opens, water pours as if from a faucet...eventually sky closes back up. In minutes, streets go from dry to raftable. The question is what kind of rain rate was it...in inches per hour. And of course the rain knocked out the satellite TV in my hotel so I can't watch the end of the 30 point NBA OKC over LA in the 3rd quarter blowout. And it knocked out the Satellite in the restaurant I was eating dinner at.
But at least it wasn't a hard rain. I was still able to see out the car windows as I drove home...And I was able to dodge the rivers in the parking lots as I ran the 20 yards from restaurant to car and car to hotel, and the 30 minutes of rain didn't put enough water on the ground that it stalled the car as I tried to drive through it. But it was a medium serious rain anyhow.
I missed Texas. It's nice to be home.
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We got our first real rain in quite a while in this part of Texas/New Mexico, too. 2 inches in the past two days! Woohoo!
And welcome back to Texas, even if you are still almost as far from this part as you were in California. LOL.
Welcome back!
Ah, I do miss the rain. Texas rain is like nothing else.
My strongest memories of childhood are sitting in the garage watching the street at the bottom of the driveway flood, and my father going down to help push cars which had stalled out/started floating.
Welcome home.
On my one visit to San Antonio, I was sitting in a Mexican restaurant on RiverWalk idly watching the news on TV. The weatherman jumps in to say that a torrential downpour will hit downtown at 9:30pm. I glance at my watch: it's 9:27. Check please!
My son and I then spend 45 minutes wandering around in a Texas-sized downpour trying to find the parking garage while the tourist map dissolves in my hands. Ruined my best sports coat.
Yeah, I know, cool story, bro.
Texas=better run government too!
Kent, kx, Borepatch
Thanks. Happy to be home.
Orphan, Steve,
Texas rain is quite the spectacle. I've been driving in a white-out in Yosemite, where the snow wouldn't let me see out the car windows...and I've driven in a brown-out dust-storm on Hwy 10 in New Mexico, when I couldn't see out the car window for the dust-storm, but so far only in Texas has it grey-out rained so hard I couldn't see out the car windows.
Coming originally from California, whose heavy rains count as Texas light rains...it took me 5 years to get used to it.
Steve,
I see you visiting/commenting rarely. Welcome back.
Agarwood,
I certainly count Texas governance as a solid 20% of the decision to move back home.
Welcome to the blog.
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