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Average Annual Precipitation by USA State - Current Results

That site is a little skewed. It shows Texas receiving and average 28 of inches of rainfall per year but where I live near Houston we average 50+" per year.  It has been a very wet year this year, raining almost every day since April and forecast to rain some more later this week.  

Houston got 50+ inches in places in 2-3 days during Harvey alone.  

My new book, "Marine Dad".

Took me a while to get back to it.  I wrote half of this a decade back and am just getting to it again.

Paperback is up on Amazon.

menu looks ok, but not strictly BBQ

no beef rib

I'd give it a try

I always give new places 6 months or more to work out the kinks

July 27th 1976: An SR-71A set an altitude record of 85,068.997 ft and an all time speed over a straight course record of: 2,193.167 miles per hour (3,529.560 km/h))

Pictured: USAF/Brian Shul's view from the flight deck of a Blackbird at 83,000 feet above the surface of our planet.

coolest airplane ever made. Crazy to think it was first made nearly 60 years ago and they haven't built a successor (that we know about) that is leaps and bounds better yet.

What's even crazier is that the U2 spy plane which flew first in the late 50's early 60's I think is still in service.  Not near as sophisticated of course.  

I guess the need for the SR-71 was obsoleted mostly by the updated capabilities of spy satellites and the high operational costs.  

Another crazy thing is that the original B-52 Bombers were put in service in the mid 1950's and the last one was built in 1962.  58 are in service, 18 in reserve, and 12 are in long term storage.  They plan to fly them at least until the 2040's at which point some of the airplanes will be 90 years old (the air frame).  Of course they have been refurbished and retrofitted over the years.