Lubbock, TX prays for rain...

[Lazy Bastard]

LUBBOCK, Texas, July 24 (UPI) -- Public officials in Lubbock, Texas, are organizing a day to pray for rain.

"Nobody is going to tell God what to do and what not to do, but we are in a serious drought in West Texas and since he is the man who controls the rain clouds, we're asking him for his mercy and his help," Mayor David Miller told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

The City Council and the Lubbock County commissioners are expected to adopt resolutions this week asking local residents to both pray and fast for rain this Sunday.

So far this year, Lubbock has received about half of its normal 10 inches. In the weeks since June 1, the growing season for cotton, rainfall has been a scant .75 inches, far less than the normal 4.43 inches.

Officials have tried prayers before and say they were answered. In January 2004, after a year of drought, the city and county set aside a Sunday to pray for rain and got the second-wettest year since records have been kept.
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.............Hah!

[LiquidManZero]

Those people are insane... Anybody who thinks praying, or for that matter, doing anything but merely waiting for rain is nuts. It's amazing to see an example of such a primitive way of thinking when people should know better...

[Lazy Bastard]

Yes...it's hilarious...but yet again, someone makes Texas look stupid, heh.

[Evolver]

Did they do the standard "Rain Dance" too? :P

[Lazy Bastard]

Probably not, but they should have. Heh.