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
[...]
The last time there was a comparable rain in
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
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’.
Nice, on the precipitation estimation. We get these storms that come through the [Even Big]ger City. They're interesting, breaking up the monotony.
ReplyDeleteThen they roll east (and you're on the greater edge of this, the LLano Estacado-- the high staked plain of New Mexico) and get really nasty, don't they?
Killers. Greensburg recently, and now that town in Oklahoma.
Re: the water treatment plant. Just seems to me that it shouldn't be funded this way. It's national money going for a municipal project.
National money should go for the Cannon/Clovis Airplane Patch and such.
Well, I will defend the pool bit. The kiddie pool at the city pool was shut down and filled in a couple years ago because it was so far out of code. The hope was to build a new baby pool for the little ones but the money hasn't been there. But I do see your point that the money could better be used elsewhere. We haven't been able to do swim lessons in a couple of years so not sure how they (or even if they can) do the little swimmers classes.
ReplyDeleteBob sez: Re: the water treatment plant. Just seems to me that it shouldn't be funded this way. It's national money going for a municipal project.
ReplyDeleteNational money should go for the Cannon/Clovis Airplane Patch and such.
You're right. There are milcon projects out at Cannon that could be accelerated... i.e., they're in the out-year budgets and could be funded immediately through "stimulus." Which would be proper use of FEDERAL money.
Jenny: Bob (Reese) is right about federal funds for municipal projects... so I gotta disagree.
True, and you are right. Just wish Pville could somehow get that baby pool fixed so my youngest can take advantage before he outgrows it.
ReplyDeleteI guess I don't know much about all this stimulus bill stuff. What bothers me is that WE are the ones that will have to pay for it, but BO (hehehe, that cracks me up. The president is just "body odor", lol!) doesn't think that far ahead. He acts like the world is his printing press. Just hit "print" and out it comes! Problems solved.