These
South Texas guys crack me up.
When
we were kids in Southern California, we knew about the desert. We learned
to be wary of flash floods. Dry arroyos. They’re dangerous, even if
it not raining. The rain can be miles away in the mountains. The
water builds up in the mountains and consolidates down to the dry arroyos,
rising quickly, flooding within minutes. That’s a flash flood.
When
we get rain here, and there is a danger of flooding, the weatherman refers to
the situation as “flash flooding”. There isn’t a hill within a hundred
miles, and we’re going to get a surprise flash flood? The ground is
flat. It rains. The rain has nowhere to go, so the water slowly
rises. I think that’s actually just called flooding.
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