long time before making landfall. this area doesn t get this kind of rain this often and some areas have seen over 12 inches of rain and a lot of areas five to eight inches. a vast area normally extremely dry and when the ground is that dry it doesn t absorb the water it runs off quickly and that is what we are seeing. there is a lot more rain still to be had across texas and it is slowly moving towards the north. i think we will see repeat scenes like this that you are looking at across areas of oklahoma into arkansas and missouri over the next couple of days, shep. i wonder what it is that caused this amount of volume to happen at this spot at this time. i don t know if we know, do we? you get that much rain and you will see that. the smaller streams and dry running area for most of the year don t have any water in them. this area hasn t seen much rain this summer. extremely dry the last couple of months and now get 12 inches of rain in about a day and you will get mass