Texas drought

[farmerjan]

We normally get 40-45" a year... 3-4 inches a month and usually spread out pretty evenly but this year has been feast and famine....
Still we are in a lot better shape than so many and very very thankful for it.

 

[Caustic Burno]

We normally get 40-45" a year... 3-4 inches a month and usually spread out pretty evenly but this year has been feast and famine....
Still we are in a lot better shape than so many and very very thankful for it.

Without a tropical event we're at 58" . The hurricanes usually don't drop a lot like the tropical storm, exception was Harvey dropped 57" in a few places. Alvin Texas still holds the record for 24 hours at 48" in TS Claudette, that was biblical!
The little tropical depression form up right off shore move in and stall.
We had one in 99 that dropped 14" in two hours wasn't a farm or community dam left in the county. Jasper and Hardin county receive more than us.
That's why the Big Thicket is here it's a subtropical rainforest.

Big Thicket - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I wrote a thesis paper on the thicket .