Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain

Brilliant splashes of yellow and red paint up the radar I have been watching from the KHOU-TV Houston Web site. It looks as if dumb luck doesn’t stop it, we may get a nice shower for a little while over here in the southeastern most corner of Texas.

People you know and some you don’t say as you pass each other by, “looks like it might rain.” To which you answer “I sure hope so.”

I am not a farmer. I’m not planning a picnic or going to a kid’s ballgame. I am not worried about it raining and I am not worried about it not raining. But I wish it would rain.

Some folks have bad moods when skies are continually overcast and rainy they have to end up inside. I get bummed out when it goes months without normal rainfalls, which in my area amounts to an average near 60 inches per year. I have to go to the window to see if it is raining in the middle of the night just because it is a thing of beauty I feel I should not miss. I feel cheated when  I awake in the morning and see that it rained cats and dogs overnight and I missed it.

This has been a pretty bad drought we have gone through lately. The fire danger has been worse than I’ve seen it in quite awhile. It is not the worst drought I can remember. But it is bad enough and I wish it would rain.

The radar is showing a pretty good swath of rain falling from south of Tyler to Houston to down along the Texas Coastal Bend into portions of Mexico to the north of Nuevo Laredo. I’m glad I am not driving in Houston right now. The streets and freeways can get a bit dicey in the rain. To the east we wait and watch the radar as the rains continue and, hopefully, continue to continue east. Maybe it will keep on coming and the rain expected tonight and tomorrow will also come.

Technology tells us some rain is on its way. It’s good news to hear in a drought. It is good news for those of us who like those rains which get fed the Gulf tropical moisture. Let it rain. The bells and whistles and radars and TV weather gods all tell us the rain is coming.

I sure hope so, because I wish it would rain.