{"id":211,"date":"2012-07-11T07:20:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/?p=211"},"modified":"2012-07-11T07:20:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T13:20:10","slug":"rainfall-in-round-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/2012\/07\/11\/rainfall-in-round-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainfall in Round Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after many weeks of hot weather, we finally received a REALLY good rain storm. Not just one, but two!<\/p>\n<p>As I was driving home Monday evening, I was taken by a familiar, but long-time unseen, sight &#8211; a black horizon with a green color cast. In Kansas, this would have signified possible tornado weather, so I figured\u00a0I was driving into a storm. It was centered right ahead of me, over Round Rock. I was pretty excited as the area definitely needed a good rain and this looked to be one heck of a storm brewin.<\/p>\n<p>Heading north on Mopac, approaching the 45 split, I noticed the typical Texas driver response to rain&#8230;. a dead stop in traffic. So, I weaved in and out of traffic, making my way toward my exit and the heavy rain hit. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve encountered a rain here in Texas that I couldn&#8217;t see through. Driving as I normally would in Kansas in this type of rain, I guided my way by the road lane lines, which I could only see about one car-length ahead of me. I could, however, see the red brake lights all around me, so it was pretty safe driving in this way.<\/p>\n<p>After hitting my exit and headin up an easy route home, I came upon my first flooded area &#8211; a small creek just past an elementary school. Taking a secondary route, I encountered another flooded, yet passable creek &#8211; but a power line was stretched across the road. I ended up going back to 45 and taking the northern route.<\/p>\n<p>We received about 3 inches that night &#8211; judging by the water level in my wheel barrow and about another inch last night. Despite the weather sites claiming about 2.5 inches, I think we received about 4 &#8211; 5.<\/p>\n<p>A really good and needed rain &#8211; Thank you Lord!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after many weeks of hot weather, we finally received a REALLY good rain storm. Not just one, but two! As I was driving home Monday evening, I was taken by a familiar, but long-time unseen, sight &#8211; a black horizon with a green color cast. In Kansas, this would have signified possible tornado weather, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/2012\/07\/11\/rainfall-in-round-rock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rainfall in Round Rock<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226,"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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/thick-clouds.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2f0m9-3p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/gardening\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}