'This is too much!' Texas rain just won't stop and people are sick of it

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Sat Jun 05, 2021 12:06 pm

'This is too much!' Texas rain just won't stop and people are sick of it

By Mark Puleo, AccuWeather staff writer, Updated June 5, 2021 5:57 AM CDT

https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/texas-rain-just-wont-stop-and-people-are-sick-of-it/957189

For parts of southern and eastern Texas, it's raining again. Just like it did yesterday and just like it is forecast to do tomorrow. For residents accustomed to glaring sunshine and 90-degree heat at this time of year, the onslaught of stormy precipitation has come as a gloomy shock.

But more than just putting a major damper on early-summer plans, this week's soaking has been yet another gut punch of devastating weather in a year full of ruinous conditions for the Lone Star State.

For business owners trying to survive, the sense of helplessness has felt incessant.

"Really, it's all rolling over from 2020 even," Conner Fuller, 32, of Kirbyville, about two hours northeast of Houston and near the Louisiana border, told AccuWeather. "We had Hurricane Laura hit and then six weeks later Hurricane Delta hit, which was the grand opening for our cigar lounge. Then it's all kind of rolled together between tornadoes, floods, freezes, and everything else."

Scenes of moderate to heavy rain and flash flooding were common along the Texas coast and Corpus Christi, on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters)

Fuller is the owner of numerous businesses, including the War Wagon Cigar Lounge and Fuller's Photography. His fully mobile cigar lounge travels around the state to events, festivals and parties.

Meanwhile, his photography business specializes in a variety of services that have all been dampened first by the coronavirus and then, more recently, by the onslaught of bad weather.

"Numbers were down because people weren�t sure if they should get out and have pictures taken in public," he said. Now that customers have begun booking sessions for high school graduations and family portraits again, he continued, "it�s been hard to find a day when it�s not raining. Or the ground is completely saturated where we can�t photograph."

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Sat Jun 05, 2021 12:10 pm

Flood-weary Texas, Louisiana facing more downpours

By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather senior meteorologist, Updated June 5, 2021 10:47 AM CDT

https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/heavy-rainfall-continues-to-bring-flood-risk-to-texas-louisiana/957652

The forecast is not good news for those hoping for a long stretch of dry weather across waterlogged parts of the south-central United States, AccuWeather forecasters say.

As much more rain is forecast to pour down on portions of the south-central U.S. and the northwestern Gulf Coast region into next week, the likelihood of urban and river flooding will increase with the potential for dangerous flash flooding where downpours are most persistent.

More flooding is almost a certainty in the region, according to AccuWeather Meteorologist Brandon Buckingham.

"How much rain falls [and] how often will determine the severity and extent of flooding into next week," Buckingham stated.

At the very least, disruptions to travel and outdoor plans are likely to continue in the wet pattern.

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�We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent people.� ― George Orwell

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#3 | RE: 'This is too much!' Texas rain just won't stop and people are sick of it datum

Sat Jun 05, 2021 12:12 pm

�We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent people.� ― George Orwell

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#4 | RE: 'This is too much!' Texas rain just won't stop and people are sick of it datum

Sat Jun 05, 2021 2:58 pm

I'm not complaining at all! I well remember begging for rain around here.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!

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Sun Jun 06, 2021 9:28 am

We're doing OK as far as the rain goes.... but the lack of sunshine isn't being kind to our garden....

We did OK with that 7-8" downpour a few nights back, but our across the road neighbor had the damn blow out on his largest stock tank.... going to be a pretty penny to get that built back....

�We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent people.� ― George Orwell

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#6 | RE: 'This is too much!' Texas rain just won't stop and people are sick of it datum

Sun Jun 06, 2021 6:31 pm

I learned during the great drought of 2011 to never wish it would stop raining.

One can move to higher ground and stay in shelter during a rain, but a drought one cannot escape from.

"If the Union is dissolved, I shall return to my native State, and share the miseries of the people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none" Robert E. Lee, February 1861 following hearing of Texas secession.

EdJames said Thank You!

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