{"id":279,"date":"2010-05-15T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T20:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/05\/15\/100515_rainfall\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:46:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:46:03","slug":"100515_rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/05\/15\/100515_rainfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Deluge Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you live in West Texas then yesterday’s torrential rain is old news, but a 3″+ rainfall is still rare enough in these parts to make it worth writing about…or at least worth posting a few photos.<\/p>\n

Our neighborhood didn’t sustain any damage from the rain or the hail, other than leaves knocked off various shrubs and trees. The drainage system out here performed admirably, unlike in other parts of Midland. And Debbie and I actually missed most of the excitement as we were enjoying Iron Man 2<\/i> while the heaviest part of the storm moved across the city (although it was sometimes hard to distinguish movie sound effects from Mother Nature’s).<\/p>\n

Here’s a photo of our neighborhood’s south pond. The water level is about 4′ higher than normal. If you can’t quite make out the sign, it says “No Swimming or Wading,” and it’s normally on dry ground. That junk floating in the water is mulch that washed down from the bank.<\/p>\n

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Here’s another view showing the sidewalk that normally leads to the dock.<\/p>\n

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Despite the heavy rains, we still managed to have a spectacular sunset.<\/p>\n

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The thunderhead in the distance was moving away from us. We were more than happy to share it with someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you live in West Texas then yesterday’s torrential rain is old news, but a 3″+ rainfall is still rare enough in these parts to make it worth writing about…or at least worth posting a few photos. Our neighborhood didn’t sustain any damage from the rain or the hail, other than leaves knocked off various… Continue reading Deluge Aftermath<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-nature","category-photography","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8954,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/8954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}