{"id":648,"date":"2011-01-06T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindonmed.com\/2011\/01\/its-raining-mud.html"},"modified":"2011-08-25T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T21:43:19","slug":"its-raining-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/2011\/01\/its-raining-mud.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Raining Mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">We&#8217;ve had a lot of interesting new&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">experiences since moving from the Houston area to West Texas in 2009. Other than our first year married, new jobs and medical school, we&#8217;ve also witnessed a few things unique to this area.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>Some <i>truly beautiful<\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Gorgeous <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327005267\/in\/photostream\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327005267\/in\/photostream\/\">sunrises<\/a> and <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327008145\/in\/photostream\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327008145\/in\/photostream\/\">sunsets<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Pretty <\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327003103\/in\/photostream\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327003103\/in\/photostream\/\">snow days<\/a> that get you out of school<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Some <\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><i>just plain awesome<\/i><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">8<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">2<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;\">\u00b0 F <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327007559\/in\/photostream\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327007559\/in\/photostream\/\">weather<\/a> in late December<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;\">Authentic <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327615904\/in\/photostream\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327615904\/in\/photostream\/\">mexican burritos<\/a> larger than my forearm<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;\">G<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">round squirrels so friendly they eat <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327005127\/in\/photostream\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327005127\/in\/photostream\/\">Poptarts from your hand<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Others <i>slightly less enjoyable<\/i>:<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Our street <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327006235\/in\/photostream\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327006235\/in\/photostream\/\">flooding<\/a>&nbsp;due to lack of a city drainage system<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Less than stellar overall&nbsp;<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/lubbockdriverssuck.blogspot.com\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/lubbockdriverssuck.blogspot.com\/\">driving abilities<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Tumble Weeds<\/span><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Ridiculously <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327004613\/in\/photostream\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327004613\/in\/photostream\/\">large tumble weeds<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Tumble weeds living in <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327020861\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57881124@N05\/5327020861\/\">inappropriate places<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Tumble weeds jumping under your moving car and scratching the bumper<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">When we found out we were moving to the great <\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Llano_Estacado');\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Llano_Estacado\">Llano Estacado<\/a>&nbsp;more experienced westerners<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;started warning us of the famed &#8220;Mud Rain&#8221; we were sure to encounter upon arrival. After our first year went by and we still had no idea what they were talking about we came to the conclusion those cowboys had drank too much moonshine. With another semester under our proverbial belts and still no showing of the mysterious natural disaster I had pretty much decided everyone in these parts had fallen off their rockers. Then, on a fateful day in early 2011, it happened.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><s><br \/><\/s><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><s>The wind started a-blowing<\/s>&nbsp;The wind was blowing 200 mph like it always does.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A cloud of furious dust stirred up from the bowels of the great plains.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">A brown watery substance started falling from what used to be a sky.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">And suddenly&#8230;.my new red car experienced something right out of <i>The Transformers. <\/i>One minute it was happily chillin&#8217;&nbsp;out maxin&#8217; relaxin&#8217; all cool, bragging on it&#8217;s brake pads&nbsp;outside of school&#8230;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_pye7rzYYCkk\/TSSULrmZ8kI\/AAAAAAAAAHg\/0oRcMGhQ2MQ\/s1600\/IMG_1976.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_pye7rzYYCkk\/TSSULrmZ8kI\/AAAAAAAAAHg\/0oRcMGhQ2MQ\/s1600\/IMG_1976.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"302\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_pye7rzYYCkk\/TSSULrmZ8kI\/AAAAAAAAAHg\/0oRcMGhQ2MQ\/s400\/IMG_1976.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">and the next it was hanging it&#8217;s radiator in engine-cooling shame&#8230;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_pye7rzYYCkk\/TSSWfNBGhHI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/vNjkFQhmjj0\/s1600\/Picnik+collage2.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_pye7rzYYCkk\/TSSWfNBGhHI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/vNjkFQhmjj0\/s1600\/Picnik+collage2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_pye7rzYYCkk\/TSSWfNBGhHI\/AAAAAAAAAHs\/vNjkFQhmjj0\/s400\/Picnik+collage2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_pye7rzYYCkk\/TSSWlNSU-DI\/AAAAAAAAAHw\/3BhQdzQ18-I\/s1600\/IMG_2954.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_pye7rzYYCkk\/TSSWlNSU-DI\/AAAAAAAAAHw\/3BhQdzQ18-I\/s1600\/IMG_2954.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"font-family: Times; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_pye7rzYYCkk\/TSSWlNSU-DI\/AAAAAAAAAHw\/3BhQdzQ18-I\/s400\/IMG_2954.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Yes folks, we experienced our first mud rain shower and I am happy to inform you that we have all survived. I grew up three hours north of here, but I have never seen anything like this. It was so bizarre. It seriously rained mud onto my poor car (who would usually be parked in the garage, but was displaced because of it&#8217;s selfish owner&#8217;s <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/twitpic.com\/3loj3u');\"  href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/3loj3u\">secret furniture project<\/a>).<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>And, unfortunately for old red up there, that Mazda belongs to a medical student who would rather blog than take the time to wash her car and would rather eat than use the limited bank funds to pay for a car wash&#8230;.so he might be looking like a survivor of the 1930&#8217;s dust bowl for sometime.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a lot of interesting new&nbsp;experiences since moving from the Houston area to West Texas in 2009. Other than our first year married, new jobs and medical school, we&#8217;ve also witnessed a few things unique to this area.Some truly beautiful: Gorgeous sunrises and sunsets Pretty snow days that get you out of school Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mindonmed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}