July 3, 2007

• Still raining!

  Off and on, mind, not constant, steady rain, but occasional cloudbursts.  Most all the area lakes are full to overflowing, so that boat ramps which were shut last July because of low lake levels are now shutting because of high lake levels.  Poor ol' Lake Grapevine just can't catch a break.  Tomorrow I'm going to take my camera to snap photos of the river, etc.  This afternoon Haltom City and North Richland Hills (where Jessica lives) got pounded yet again.  Jessica says they've been getting heavy rains every afternoon for days now, so it never has a chance to dry out, so when it rains, it floods.

  Today's flooding unfortunately caught Jessica's mother-in-law, who had her car flooded by high water in NRH as she tried to enter a parking lot to wait out the storm.  All the pick-up trucks making the attempt succeeded, while the cars didn't.  Jessica feels awful, as the only reason Taylor was there at all had been to go with them to a local water park (which wound up being closed when the afternoon storm hit).  Taylor's having a truly rotten week, as she had to have one of her dogs put down Saturday morning, the one that's left is throwing up and apparently has heartworms so might also wind up being put down, and now Taylor's car is flooded.  And it's just Tuesday.  Fortunately her husband, who owns a contracting company and has been working in Colorado, is due home this evening.

  Charles got a job!  He's been hired by the Olive Garden restaurant near Ridgmar Mall, where Jessica used to work.  Starts tomorrow.  He'd been searching since he got home, but being the honest person he is, he'd tell potential employers that he's hoping to back to Texas Tech in January, which tended to drop him to the bottom of the possible-hire list.  The rain has been hard on him as well, as the Corvette is loooow to the ground, so isn't exactly flood-friendly.  It's occurred to us, though, that the monsoon season arrived in Texas along with him so Don and I are thinking he needs to be treated like Jonah on the ship, and tossed into the ocean.  

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