3 posts tagged “rain”
Forbes (through Austin Business Journal) has an article about Austin, saying that Austin will experience the fastest economic recovery when the economy rebounds ...
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/07/20/daily35.html?ana=from_rss
That sounds great, but Austin is running out of water. Here are some articles on the drought in Austin ...
Article 1 from Austin American-Statesman
Article 2 from Austin American-Statesman
Video about drought in Austin ...
Animation that shows how drought has developed over time.
It reminds me of something out of Mad Max (The Road Warrior or Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome). I would hate to see Austin turn into a desert.
It rained last night (it was a great sound to hear), and I have a video of another time it rained ...
but the number of times it rains in Austin each month can be counted on one hand now. That is pretty scary.
That's one of the many songs I think of when it actually rains in Austin. Another good one is "Showdown" by Electric Light Orchestra. Anyway, it rained this morning in Austin, and I think it is still raining right now. It's so rare to see rain now that I thought I would take a video of it with my little Canon SD750 digital camera. There's nothing special about the video, but it is the best feeling in the world to actually see rain and lightning and hear thunder. Austin is in a drought right now so this rain is very much welcomed.
It is way too hot in Austin so I thought I would post some songs that either mention "rain" in their lyrics or sound like water/rain. I may have posted some of these before. Here is the current forecast for Austin, TX ...
Here is a song that I could play over and over again if I had to. It has a sort of submarine sound to it ...
This next song actually mentions "rain" ...
"It's raining all over the world" (yeah, right) ...
This song has always sounded kind of underwater to me ...
This last song takes place when a storm is coming in Bram Stoker's Dracula ...
Also, here is a video from last summer in Austin, when it rained so much that they had to open up the floodgates at Mansfield Dam.
