Lubbock was pounded by a rain of biblical proportions last night \u2014 or at least more of us were.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s interesting that last Friday we had a 40% chance of rain…and nothing. Yesterday we had a 40% chance of rain, and we got soaked.<\/p>\n
I guess Lubbock gets rain so infrequently that nobody is ever quite prepared for it. First off, you have to remember that the City of Lubbock\u2019s flood plan is basically, \u201cLet it run down the road into those lakes.\u201d There might be a little more science to it than that, but not much. Making things worse, this was a lot of rain in a very short period of time.<\/p>\n
Now, good people of Lubbock<\/a>, you have to remember where you live. Lubbock has a worse reaction to water than the Wicked Witch of the West. The difference is, we don\u2019t melt. We either pretend nothing is happening or completely freak out.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a spoiler alert: Do what you always do \u2014 just do it slower.<\/p>\n I reviewed LBK Scanner Squad this morning, and it was collision after collision. So what you or I might consider common sense apparently isn\u2019t common sense to everyone.<\/p>\n The \u201cofficial\u201d amount from the National Weather Service was 0.78 inches at the airport \u2014 although, as always in Lubbock, your results may vary dramatically depending on where you were standing.<\/p>\n Lubbock Gets Drenched in a Hurry<\/p>\n Now think about this: much of that 0.78 inches fell in roughly an hour, give or take. If rain kept falling at that rate for 24 straight hours, we\u2019d be looking at 18.72 inches of rain. At that point, we\u2019d all need boats.<\/p>\n