Midland needs WATER

When we lived in Scotland, I would grumble about the endless weeks and months that we never saw the sun. There was constant cloud cover and rain. So much rain.

Midland has the opposite problem.

We haven't seen a cloud in months. We've had a tenth of an inch of rain this year! That's nothing - I could spit that much. It hasn't been this dry since 1930. This is a pic of the Rio Grande at the Texas/Mexico border. Its certainly not "grande", or even a "rio" anymore.
West Texas has been declared an "Extreme Drought" area, and we are having to take drastic measures to conserve our water. The City of Midland now has watering rules, and you are only allowed to water your grass and plants on certain days of the week, or else you are fined up to $500!

But the worst part of the drought - the fires. Last week 16000 acres of land were burned in Midland County. Homes and buildings and cattle and horses have been lost. Fires have been raging all over Texas, and they start from simple things - metal scraping the pavement and sending sparks into the brush, a cigarette butt that's still smoking, or
sparks from electrical equipment. So today, Sunday April 17th, our city Mayor has delcared a day of prayer for RAIN. In his words, "This day we are unified in prayer for rain,...We ask our gracious God to bless West Texas with rains that will quench our thirsty land and fill our lakes and reservoirs."

Even amidst this drought, I am very thankful to be in such a God-fearing part of the country, where we all can be united in prayer, and I know our prayers will be heard.