{"id":2202,"date":"2007-01-13T10:08:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T15:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2017-07-18T17:53:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:53:46","slug":"when-our-prayers-are-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/weather\/when-our-prayers-are-answered\/","title":{"rendered":"When Our Prayers Are Answered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoo, boy! Austin needs rain. But I wish we didn&#8217;t get the entire year&#8217;s supply in one 4-hour deluge. It began pouring rain about 5:45 AM and got worse between 8 and 9. It&#8217;s just slacking off a bit now at 9:45. I&#8217;m guessing we got about four inches, so far. The rain pounded down and ran off instead of soaking in, like good rain.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/20070113a.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Flood\" \/><br \/><i>2007-01-13. Austin, TX. Although the meadow has one of the gentlest slopes in the yard, it can wash out. Look at my new path!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I garden on a hill. I started terracing it when I began. I build planter boxes, too. But this rain overflowed my boxes and rock walls and paths and berms. It overflowed the retaining walls and flowed up against the garage and left three inches on my covered, concrete patio.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/20070113b.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Flood\" \/><br \/><i>2007-01-13. Austin, TX. Looking at this photo it&#8217;s difficult to believe I&#8217;ve dug a drainage ditch here and filled it with gravel. The water is at least six inches deep and seeping into the garage.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>How much cleanup time will I have before the big freeze tomorrow night? Currently the forecast shows 100% chance of rain the rest of today, 70% tomorrow, and 80% Monday&#8211;when the rain turns to ice pellets. I&#8217;m crossing my fingers the rain will slackk off a bit and give what&#8217;s fallen a chance to soak in.<\/p>\n<p>Damn. Sounds like it&#8217;s starting up again.<\/p>\n<p>PS. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prairiepoint.net\/journal\/\">Bill<\/a>, did you get hit with the ice storm yesterday? How are you faring up north?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/20070113c.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Flood\" \/><br \/><i>2007-01-13. Austin, TX. I didn&#8217;t mulch one part of the paths because I needed to remove the old mulch (to use in the beds) and dig it out a bit. As you can see, this is a bit of a problem spot.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5398,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}