Crazy West Texas Weather
@thebeaddoodler (4262)
Lubbock, Texas
May 29, 2008 4:22pm CST
Two days ago we had severe thunderstorms which dumped 1 1/2 inch of rain in about an hour or less. The ground is still too damp to get out and work much, and many of the bar ditches in rural areas are still full of water.
I was coming home from town today and kept looking in my rear view mirror, thinking something was wrong with my vision or something. The sky just looked weird!
It finally dawned on me that there was a dust storm blowing in behind me! I don't know where the dust comes from after so much rain, but it happens quite often here.
Is there anything that seems weird about the weather where you live? Or is it just West Texas?
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@nova1945 (1612)
• United States
30 May 08
We have had a lot of tornadoes this year. And now it seems to rain every other day.
My daughter lives in Tulia and she says it it hot one day and under tornado watch another. They haven't had much rain there for some time. A tornado took out half the town last year.
@thebeaddoodler (4262)
• Lubbock, Texas
31 May 08
When I first read your response I read it as Tulsa. Tulia isn't that far from me. It really is weird how one area can get so much rain, but there just seems to be a line drawn that the rain doesn't cross over. Yep! That's West Texas for ya.
@cjgrooms (4456)
• United States
29 May 08
We live in Southeast Ga. and i promise we have been having to oddest weather the last few years. When i was younger i don't remember having tornados here but they have been a reg. occurence the last couple of years. The strangest thing is when we are in the middle of a hurricane and all of a sudden the rain stops and the sun comes out and its like the wind and rain was never there! But you know it was because your neighbors lawn furniture is laying all over your yard and heaven only knows where your stuff may have ended up!
@thebeaddoodler (4262)
• Lubbock, Texas
29 May 08
I guess weather's getting crazy everywhere. You can see on the newscasts where the tornadoes are leaving the normal path they've been known to occur in and spreading out everywhere.
Yeah, the sun coming out and wind dying down is not something we're accustomed to here. The sun may come out, but it's doubtful the wind will let up very much! LOL
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@aplaza (630)
• Netherlands
30 May 08
A while back they were re-doing the road here. They were adding a strip of red coloured asphalt to mark off the bike path. At the same time my car was pretty dusty and it was all red dust. I hadn't really been listening to weather reports so I just assumed it was from the road works. I decided not to go to the car wash until the road works were finished. As it turns out just at that time there were a couple of days that the Sahara winds had been passing over. Apparantly everybody's cars were dusted just like mine. I'd heard of Saharas (and the like) but never that they left a red residue!
