The rain’s been relentless this past week. All I hear about on social media and on the radio is how awful the rain is and how it ruins plans.
Yes of course that aspect of the recent heavy rains is regrettable. The rains affected some plans I had one day and the power outage stopped my office work on another day.
On top of everything when we get real Houston style storms it gets pitch black outside and with the lightning and thunder you get a feel for the fury and power that nature can wield. Not all that fun but this is the rainy season in Houston.
But the thing is that if we look cross the country we can see what it’s like to have permanent “nice weather”. California is going into its fourth year of drought and conditions are reaching a critical state. I hear horror stories from my California friends about dead lawns, livestock, and water rationing and listen to their speculation as to where they may be able to move to in order to escape this disaster.
Of course along with our rainy season we get our dry season in Houston; July, August, and September. The season when clouds will not dare show their faces unless they have a hurricane to give them backup. These will be the endless afternoons where the sun will be relentless and refuse to set till after nine at night.
It’s curious to me that during these days that people won’t complain as much. To me at least, this type of weather is as bad or even worse than rainy days.
For my part, I am glad for these rainy days and rainy weeks. Every time we get one of these events I comfort myself thinking about all those water reservoirs that are north and east of Houston and I hope that they are topping off with fresh water. I think about my California friends and their hyper abundance of “nice days” and I hope that sometime soon that they will be able to enjoy a rainy Houston day.
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