After the death of a white-tailed deer on the premises was identified, tissue samples from the one-year-old buck were submitted by the deer breeding facility as part of a required CWD surveillance program. The samples were tested at the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory in College Station on August 17 and indicated the presence of CWD.
Officially at Mathis Field, 2.49 inches of rain has fallen since Monday. That puts the total rainfall for the year at 6.1 inches which is still 7.94 inches below average for September 1.
Most of the thunderstorm activity that dumped almost two inches of rain in San Angelo Monday has moved south to the I-10 corridor from Ozona to Kerrville for Wednesday but there's still a good chance of afternoon Thunderstorms and flooding in the San Angelo area.
The National Weather Service is reporting lakes and reservoirs across West Central Texas continue to recede as drought conditions persist in spite of some areas receiving heavy rainfall over the last week.
Before the last week of heavy rains across most of Texas, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Dove Program Leader Owen Fitzsimmons had predicted dove concentrations would be near scarce water sources.
No challenge is too great for Texans to address, and I commend Mayor Johnson, the City of Dallas, and emergency response personnel for their prolific life-saving response to yesterday's unprecedented flooding event in North Texas.
Throughout the day on Monday, the city was brought to a standstill as officials urged motorists to stay off the roads and carried out rescues of those whose vehicles were caught in the floodwaters.
Showers and thunderstorms moved across West Central Texas over the weekend dumping enough rain to cause flooding in the Permian Basin, the Big Country and along the I-10 corridor but San Angelo for the most part remained dry.