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Topic: Playing steel guitar under water in Texas |
Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 30 Jun 2007 11:12 am |
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| We are hearing and seeing lots on the news about the flooding in Texas these past few days, are any of our forum members in Texas in the midst of this mess? |
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Emmett Roch
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Texas Hill Country
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Posted 30 Jun 2007 3:32 pm
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Right in the middle of it, but lucky enough to be on high ground.
It didn't rain all day today, we were kinda surprised.
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Roger Edgington
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 30 Jun 2007 3:38 pm
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Les,
I'm in San Antonio and we've had some rain but nothing like 90 miles north of us. Our band is playing at an outdoor venue tonight in Bandera, Texas @ The 11th St bar. It's beautiful right now and it should be neat under the big bright Texas stars. We have some rain in the area but we are keeping our fingers crossed. It's really been nice, its keep the temp in the high 70's. It's usually about 100's.
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 30 Jun 2007 3:43 pm
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| Hey guys - we've had rain almost constantly for a month. Real bad floods in the UK. We had the driest April since records began and now it looks like the wettest June. Who said global warming doesn't exist? |
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Tracy Sheehan
From:
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Posted 30 Jun 2007 4:48 pm Rainy day in Texas
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| What i would like to know is how does the rain know to start when i take my dog out to the back yard. |
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Roger Edgington
From:
San Antonio, Texas USA
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Posted 1 Jul 2007 1:28 pm
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| I played outside last night without a single drop of rain but it is thundering again right now. I can't believe how fast the grass is growing. |
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Michael Douchette
From:
Gallatin, TN (deceased)
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jerry harkins
From:
kingsland tx
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Posted 1 Jul 2007 2:38 pm
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I live in Marble Falls Tx, we had about 20" of rain in 8 hrs. Lots of flooding in town and in the out lying areas. Five miles away in Horseshoe Bay it rained only 6". My home was safe from the waters,but alot of homes and businesses had damage. The rivers are still running full. No loss of life that I am aware of.
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Mark Edwards
From:
Weatherford,Texas, USA
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Posted 2 Jul 2007 3:53 am
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| Les I'm about 12 miles from the Brazos River and from where there is some of the major flooding. They are having a heck of time down there. They evacuated all the folks down by the river, then let them back in then re-evacuated again, and they are calling for more rain through Wednesday. Possom Kingdom Lake is approximately 45 miles away and they are opening and closing flood gates which of course is playing havoc on the Brazos River. I am praying for those folks down in the flooded areas all over Texas. Our family has been blessed that we live on higher ground. |
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Joe Butcher
From:
Dallas,Texas, USA
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Posted 4 Jul 2007 6:54 pm
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| On one hand, its kinda nice that its alot cooler than usual and everything is so green, kinda like Seattle, but with mosquitos. |
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Colby Tipton
From:
Crosby, Texas, USA
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Posted 5 Jul 2007 1:29 am
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Mosquito's, I thought they where mockingbirds pecking on me Joe.
It's 4:15 a.m. here and it is raining as I type this.
Has rained every day for 2 weeks now around my place.
Not enough to flood but just enough to keep it so nasty you can't do anything outside in the yard. |
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Emmett Roch
From:
Texas Hill Country
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Posted 5 Jul 2007 3:38 am
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We're out west of Austin and we've had a worse-than-usual infestation of fleas this year. The near-constant rain hasn't slowed them down, and as has been stated, the mosquitoes are terrible, so we have double trouble, bug-wise.
"Off" repellent works about as good as anything we've found so far.
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Don Walworth
From:
Gilmer, Texas, USA
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Posted 5 Jul 2007 6:52 am
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Rain every day for the last 30 plus days. Cool though and my a/c bill is a lot lower.
If you remember the commercial during one of the Super Bowl games a number of years ago for Tabasco Pepper Sauce -- that is how I keep the bug situation under control. The bugs blow up - messy, but it works. 
We're high and "dry" here, but this rain does not soak in - runs off and flows South to low areas and floods them.
Don
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Bo Legg
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Posted 8 Jul 2007 10:03 am
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| My steel pickin friend Gene Smith in Point Texas said he had never seen this much rain at one time in Texas. He said he went out side and got so wet he passed out and they had to pour a bucket of sand on him to revive him. |
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Tracy Sheehan
From:
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Posted 8 Jul 2007 11:18 am Mosquitos.
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| Here at the Dallas,Ft Worth airport an airline worker put over 200 gallons of jet fuel in a mosquito before he realized it wasn't an airplane. |
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