{"id":9194,"date":"2015-05-06T02:22:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9194"},"modified":"2015-05-06T02:22:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T02:22:18","slug":"rain-rain-rain-and-theres-still-a-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9194","title":{"rendered":"Rain, rain, rain … and there's still a drought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Those of us who live on the Texas Tundra are enjoying the rain that’s pelting these parts.<\/p>\n

We had more than an inch of it today, according to the National Weather Service office at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport.<\/p>\n

This means we’re more than 2 inches over normal precipitation for the year to date.<\/p>\n

Great news? Absolutely!<\/p>\n

Is it a drought-buster? Hardly.<\/p>\n

Can we predict what the weather will do for the rest of the year? We cannot predict for the rest of the week.<\/em><\/p>\n

I stopped by Amarillo City Hall about a week ago and noticed the city’s “Every Drop Counts” water-use monitor over the first-floor elevator. The water use goal for that day was 48 million gallons; the actual use that day was 19 million gallons. Folks who normally water their lawns time of year didn’t turn the sprinklers on to irrigate their grass.<\/p>\n

I reckon tomorrow’s water-use meter will register similar figures.<\/p>\n

That, too, is great news.<\/p>\n

I prefer to stay in water-conservation mode, no matter how much rain we get.<\/p>\n

You see, it’s going to take a literal deluge to eradicate the drought threat that continues to draw down the water flowing through the Ogallala Aquifer, which gives our region its life.<\/p>\n

The recent rainfall — and the prospect of more of it in the days and weeks ahead — gives City Hall, the water conservation districts, the counties and even the state a chance to remind us of what some of us sometimes forget when we get any significant moisture.<\/p>\n

It’s that the drought hasn’t let up. The Texas drought remains a serious threat to our way of life — and even our lives.<\/p>\n

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Those of us who live on the Texas Tundra are enjoying the rain that’s pelting these parts. We had more than an inch of it today, according to the National Weather Service office at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport. This means we’re more than 2 inches over normal precipitation for the year to date. Great … Continue reading Rain, rain, rain … and there's still a drought<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[290,1460,1656,3217,3945,4609,4668],"class_list":["post-9194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-drought","tag-every-drop-counts","tag-national-weather-service","tag-rick-husband-airport","tag-texas-drought","tag-texas-panhandle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}