into a poncho. “It was not fun,” she said. “When I was crossing the street, there was like a current, and I had to push against it.” Tech students have been battling Mother Nature since the start of the semester, with Lubbock experiencing 106 percent of its normal rainfall, according to an article by The Associated Press. The cause of all the rain seems to be the anticipated arrival of El Niño, a warmer than normal flow of water from the ocean, which is expected to arrive next month and relieve some Texas cities of their
long standing drought status, according to the article. Jordan Rodriguez, a freshman pre-nursing major from Lewisville, said the weather was so unruly, some students attempted to wait it out away from their dorms. For those who wanted to venture out into the storm, some Tech staff members were handing out trash bags as a thin layer of protection from the rain, she said. “It was cold. It was wet,” Rodriguez said. “It was horrible.” Melissa Meiner, a freshman pre-nursing ma-
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On Wednesday evening, Texas Tech students, such as Callie Eagan, a freshman exercise and sport sciences major from Lewisville, were faced with either waiting out a storm, or braving the harsh, cold weather. Eagan said she was enjoying a meal with her friend at The Market at Stangel/Murdough when the storm began. She then decided to face the strong winds and heavy rainfall with nothing but a trash bag fashioned
jor from Midland, said the water level was past her knees. She was returning to her dorm when she got caught in the storm, Meiner said. She had never experienced weather that terrible, and it almost reminded her of a hurricane., she said. “It’s like a hurricane outside, it’s crazy,” she said. “I literally just like, crossed the street, and it came up to my knees.” Not only was the water difficult to traverse through, Madison Carleton, a freshman education major from Midland, said, but the cold wind and
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if the cold water was pushing against her. McLean said she, like many others, decided to brave the weather, and she said she felt this particular storm left nothing to be desired, as she faced loud cracks of thunder, bursts of lightning, flooding rain and cold, strong winds. “It’s literally like a hurricane,” she said. “All the streets are completely flooded, it’s raining really hard, it was hailing a little bit earlier, and thunderstorming really badly. It’s bad, I crossed the street, and I’m drenched.”
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chilling rain made the walk back to her dorm all the more difficult, since half of her body was submerged in what felt like ice water. For students having to cross the heavily flooded streets, Carleton said it seemed as if they were walking through a cold, dirty river. “It was scary, with the hail and a lot of water,” she said. “It was freezing, I’m so cold.” Breckyn McLean, a freshman pre-nursing major from Midland, said sometime earlier in the evening, hail, not rain, was falling from the sky. At times the water level was past her thigh and she said it felt as
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