Rain has been coming down almost nonstop since 10PM last night. Mid morning a person from the campground said we had received 4.9". I just looked at my Weatherbug app and it says we have received 15.45" of rain. I don't know if that is for the entire storm or for the today. Another app says 11.62" so far today and projects another 3.25" before the rain stops around 4AM. We have had a lot of 15-20 mph steady winds with some 35 mph gusts.
I don't think we will go look, but it would be interesting to see what the Rio Grande river looks like tomorrow morning.
We went to Cheddar's for supper with the campground Pastor and his wife. He drove. He drove up close to our steps to pick us up and dropped us off at the door at Cheddar's. We had jackets so we didn't get to wet. On the way back to the campground you drive through a nice residential neighborhood. For most of the way only the center 8' of the street was not covered with water. From maybe 300' the street was completely under water and the water was over the curb on both sides.
Kathy has gotten a couple of texts from campground residents. One lady noted that two sites at the far end of the campground are now under water. Another, who lives in a park model trailer, said the the water was up to the top of the first step to get into her unit. She said it was touching the bottom of her car.
Our refrigerator quit working a couple of hours ago. The error message is one that indicates a safety relay has tripped. The issue can be caused by driving rain. It happened to us once before and I reset the relay using a magnet (found the trick on the Internet). During a short break in the rain I went out and tried it but the relay would not reset. In the morning I will try drying the back of the refrigerator with a hair dryer and try resetting it again. I had to wade through 1-1.5" water to get from our door around to the refrigerator access panel. Most of our site is several inches above the roadway and the road seems to be draining well in front of our site.
We are under the red dot. This was a display of lightning strikes at 5:23AM. If I had done another screenshot at 5:30PM there were even more strikes in or area.
I get an Emergency Flood Warning notification on my phone, from the National Weather Service, about every 90 minutes. People are warned to stay off the roads unless they are fleeing flood waters or in and evacuation area.
God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours. He has blessed me.
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