Follow-Up

Remember this past Monday when I was on about the previous evening's rain? This is what I said, in part:

I don’t have a rain gauge here on the premises of El Casa Móvil De Pennington, but my educated guess is we got about a half-inch of rain, perhaps more.

Well... fast-forward to Monday's Clovis News-Journal (which I just got around to reading today):

Showers accompanying the brief storm, which hit around 6 p.m., dumped between a quarter and three-quarter inches of rain in Clovis and almost a half-inch in Portales, Meteorologist Jennifer Palucki said Monday.

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The last time there was a comparable rain in Clovis was Oct. 15, when there was a half-inch of rain and an inch on Oct. 14 in Portales.

And the wind helped mark it as a severe storm, with gusts upward of 60 mph. One gust was measured at 63 mph.

Looks like my “educated guess” was right on the money… would that I could be so accurate in other areas of life. That said… we’re still in a drought condition, what with no measurable snow this year (so far) and precious little precipitation of any other sort. And there’s nothing in the ten-day forecast to suggest change is on the way.

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Speaking of “change” and P-Ville… there’s this:

The City of Portales and Roosevelt County want a piece of the proposed $838 billion federal stimulus bill pie.

According to Portales City Manager Debi Lee, the city will request approximately $15 million for six projects — the biggest of which is a new waste water plant, with an estimated cost of about $7.5 million.

Among other projects, the city is requesting money for water well system work, streets, railroad crossing improvements, enhancements to the city pool and a gymnasium.

I’ll buy the waste-water plant, water well system work, and the streets improvements. All of those projects will stimulate the local economy and would be good for the area… in that there would be lasting benefits. But the pool and the gym? Not so much. And therein lies the problem. It seems like we ALL have our hands out, and P-Ville ain’t immune from the pork-plague. Kinda strange for a bright-red burg like Portales... and Roosevelt County, generally speaking.

Just sayin’.