June 18, 2015 (Thursday
We had rain when Bill was only a “disturbance” in the Gulf, but for about 24 hours after Bill made landfall on Tuesday the 16th, there was little or no rain in Rockport. Since there were flood warnings posted, and there was so much rain east and north of the storm, I wrote a little poem about its production of such small amounts of rain where we were, on the west side of the storm. However, late on Wednesday morning, it finally started raining. Boy, did it ever start raining! Before the rains came, here’s what I wrote:
before it started raining yesterday. It suddenly became aBefore it had a name,
We had lots of rain,
But when we named it Bill,
The rain went ‘way downhill.
different story. Wow! The winds came too! Strange. The center of the storm was then over DFW, but the tail end of its weather was now over us. It finally rained. And blew. Streets flooded. A few cars were stranded. I heard on the news that water got into some homes. What a change. This proves what I have been saying for years, that each storm is unique and there’s no way to know precisely what one will do.All of our technological progress notwithstanding, we still have not learned to do much, if anything, about the weather. As the slogan puts it, it “does its own thing.” I started this blog with a poem; I’ll end it with a limerick:
The lakes in Texas are full,
Sounds strange to say but, no bull,
Lake levels are high,
Rain came from the sky,
And everywhere now there’s a pool.