Downpour in Harlingen, Texas on January 27, 2018 @ 3:42 pm

The rain started in Harlingen and I didn't think anything of it....  Then it started raining hard....

Several inches
of water covers
the road to
Tropic Winds
RV Resort.





Eric and I lived on top of a mountain for 28 years.  Only once while we lived there did rainwater run across our road.  I have never been in a car, in a rainstorm, in conditions like this before.

Rainwater has

moved past the

roadway, over
the curb &
onto the lawn.

The car in front of us is moving slowly...  It doesn't have much clearance left above the water.

Ripples of
water move
out from the
car & truck
in front of
our Jeep.

I can see the

wake we are

making as we

move through

the water.

Water covers several feet of lawn past the roadway.

I am mezmirized
by what I see.






There's a lot of OH -- MY -- GOD coming out of my mouth.

Water covers

most of the

parking lot

in front of

the Main

Hall.

A curb lies, unseen, beneath the water.

Our campsite 

is uphill from

the Main Hall

& there is less

water here.

Water is sluicing down the street.  The lawns have large puddles.  A neighbor, with a rain gauge, told me that three inches of rain fell this afternoon.  According to fellow RVers, flooding like this hasn't occurred here before.

People living in low lying areas have challenges that mountain dwellers never think about.