The soccer fields where our 8-y/o granddaughter practices and plays soccer is on the west side of Grapevine Lake, a fairly large lake northeast of Ft Worth, on the north side of the city of Grapevine where we live.
The lake has been very, very low for several years due to the Texas drought.
For the past 15 days or so it has been raining, it seems, almost non-stop. Tonight for the first time since the rains stopped (although more rain overnight is forecast) we took a drive out to the lake. Most of the roads leading up to the lake are closed due to high water, and the traffic is very, very heavy as more and more people drive out to look at it.
I will load some better photographs of the lake later this week, but the photo above gives one a pretty good idea of the depth of the water on the soccer fields. The water is now deep enough that our older non-soccer-playing granddaughter can bring her water polo team out to the lake for practice.
The "original" edge of the lake is probably about a mile farther out in the distance.
These were some of the best soccer fields (and base ball fields in the same general area) I have seen anywhere in the country. It's going to be quite a project to get the fields back to their original condition.
This will be a huge, huge impact on the soccer program in north Texas.
calling the soccer field in the picture wet, is like Uncle Sam saying the number of employed is increasing.. don
ReplyDeleteIt really is something (I do feel badly for many folks who lost their lake homes across Texas, and there were a lot as well as other losses) but with regard to the above and soccer. That really is accurate. The e-mail notes we are getting from the soccer coaches is that practices have been canceled or moved indoors because "the soccer fields are too wet." Until we saw them firsthand, I only assumed they were a bit soggy; I had no idea there was this much flooding just a few miles to the north of us.
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