Wind sock

The wind sock doesn't lie. The cloud is pulling air towards it from all around.

Two track to water

This road leads to water. Lots of it. I promise!

Galveston, Texas

High above Galveston Bay, but dropping down into Hourston. Dolly would bring it rain within the week that this photo was taken.

One way to beat the rain

The best way to beat the rain is to ride over the clouds. Afternoon clouds rising along the Gulf Coast, somewhere between Florida and Texas, looking north.

Upper atmosphere

Here's a photo taken from an airplane flying along the Gulf Coast, somewhere west of the Florida panhandle. One the ground is a water way, presumably a shipping channel, ... but I'm not sure which one.

Weather station in waiting

weather station at Ochopee

Rita left her mark

Just like southwest Florida has Charley and Wilma. Southeast Texas has Rita ... in the form of lots of fallen trees. Big ones too. This photo is along Beech Woods Trail in Big Thicket National Preserve, in what used to be a text book example of a mature and well-shaded Loblolly-Beech-Magnolia tree forest. Now a lot more light shines through, and more undergrowth beneath the fractured canopy gives the forest a different feel.

Neches at Town Bluff

Looking south down the Neches River, just downstream of Town Bluff Dam, in southeast Texas. You can see "the bluffs" on the right-hand side of the photo, from which the town and the dam were named.

Swamps of Texas

Here's a photo of a cypress forest in eastern Texas, at Big Thicket National Preserve, taken just a few days ago. It's called a bayou, in this case it's called Little Pine Island Bayou -- which is a slow moving creek, that with a good dose of rain, rises up and overflows into the floodplain. And when it rises, watch out! Flood stage can rise ten feet, even higher, during those peak rainfall events.

Stop!

You can't stop the water cycle. Cloud moving in on Ochopee from East.

Watch your step

Stone steps to small creek, in eastern Belgium

Henderson gate

Another photo of the Henderson Creek structure, flowing at almost full capacity. One of the two gates is shut, but water is free-flowing over the spillway to the left, out of sight of the photo.

Flow intersection

Intersection of flows at Henderson Creek, after the storm.

Gumbo

Gumbo limbo in Ochopee

Danger

Cloud forming to east of Ochopee

Storm at beach

Storm clouds move in from east over Naples Beach.