celticdragonfly

Wow.

The rain turned to ice on the way home from Jamie's post-op appointment - I'm glad we got home when we did. It was rain, then rain mixed with ice, then ice mixed with snow. Now it's snowing steadily. According to weather underground, we can expect 1 to 5 inches of accumulation tonight.

I'm kinda dreading the thought of driving Maggie to dance tonight, especially with the ice under things. I know how to drive in snow, and I was actually slowing down in the ice earlier, because I could feel the van losing traction at 40 mph, so I was going 35 - but plenty of people were zipping past me at regular speeds.

On Weather Underground today:

Public Information Statement

Statement as of 3:50 PM CDT on July 3, 2007

... 9 consecutive days of rain at dfw...
dfw recorded rain today... Jul 3. This makes nine days in a row with
measured rainfall---Jun 25-July 3. No rain was recorded Jun
23rd... with only a trace on June 24th.

The dfw record is 10 days... recorded twice
April 10-19 1908 and February 13-22 1932

also Arlington apparently has had to close roads, and

Arlington pd reported a high water Rescue - 3 children in Johnson Creek

That's not Babbling Brook Drive out there any more. That's Babbling Brook. The water has met in the middle.

And no, I'm NOT letting the kids go play in it - not with flash flood warnings and kids getting swept away and such.