Rain, rain, rain....

We started out the year here in a "drought" - I don't remember how far below the average we were for the annual rain fall, but it is making up the deficit these past two days!! Yesterday we had some serious rain, but it didn't start until later in the afternoon, like 2:00pm....Today its been raining all day. There was an area of Houston (Southwest) that recieved 11 inches of rain...Yes, you read correctly - 11 inches!

I guess that today is our turn for the massive rain. I was watching the news and there's just one single cell that is sitting right on top of us and The Woodlands (just northwest of us - we're neighboring cities). This cell hasn't moved for 2 hours now and is dumping rain at the average of 0.75 inch per 15 minutes. Its expected to slowly move out....but sure makes for a boring day for the kids. They can't go outside and play...Good thing we have fun inside!

Here are some pictures fromt he rain today:

Our front yard.
Notice the river on the left from the rain gutters and the ponds on the right in the planter

Here it is about 30 minutes later!

There's a river out there now

Our backyard
Notice the small pool behind the slide next to the fence....

View from Jenna's room of the creek behind our house.
This creek usually has hardly any water in it!!

An up-close view of the creek
(courtesy of Jason)