About once a year our backyard floods. Serious flooding. I have pictures from the 2009 flood, and the relatively mild 2010 flood that broke the fence. No flood last year because there was no rain.
So, I gve you our flooding for this year. By the end of the night the river had died down to some puddles, but for that hour or so we played outside it was a nice river.
Now, what isn’t obvious from this is the quick moving current in there, which led to many experiments. I have science posts for a couple of weeks from this 
We made the trek over to discover it’s about knee high on me. The broken fence you see if from a previous flooding. The kids have been slowly demolishing it and using it for projects.
Princess spent time changing outfits, first her dress, then shorts, but those got wet, so finally she just changed into her swimsuit.
Meanwhile the boys played and chased Mac, and just had a lot of fun.
While Mac had fun running around, I’m not quite sure he approved of it all…….
And, I was just reading an article about the drought spreading across the southern part of the country!
So in a strange way we are still under drought conditions for several reasons.
One, we're so far behind in rain that our lakes are at least 10 feet down, and many of the local creeks are dried up.
Two, most of this will run off and head down to the gulf, it won't soak into our local aquifer which is also severely depleted.
Three, Texas gets flash floods, which I need to do another post on how that happens.
So, to sum up my rather long comment…… Texas is CRAZY! We can both be in flooding and drought at the same time.
I remember reading your posts about this in the past. It is crazy.
That is crazy! My mother-in-law lives in Las Vegas, and the same thing happens there, every once in a while.
It looks like a lot of fun, though. 🙂
I am happy you had rain this year. I am reading about this terrible drought out there. Looks like your kids appreciate annual flooding more each year.
The scary part is even with all the rain, I just heard a news report that our lake is still down 40%. We need rain about 50 miles upriver to recharge our lake.