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11 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Ended up with 0.15".

Underwhelmed puts it mildly.

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But seriously, that sucks.  Although 0.15" would feel like John Holmes right now.

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31 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Can I say that I'm slowly turning into an Avery Tomasco fan?

Yoeman's ain't bad, but maybe just because he is my normal weather guy I've seen too many things get talked up over the past year and then turn out to be nothing burgers.

Tomasco is great because he doesn't hype things up, he uses memes and makes fun of himself.  He's spot on.  Honestly, Austin's TV weather teams > Houston's TV weather teams although Austin needs a Matt Lanza/Erig Berger.

2 hours ago, Wiler77 said:

Grand total of 0.0 inches in Driftwood.  Fuck everything.

misery needs to be shared. i haven't had a drop of rain in Crestview for 3 months. got a nice soak today. it was way fucking overdue.

3 hours ago, Wiler77 said:

But seriously, that sucks.  Although 0.15" would feel like John Holmes right now.

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I took a spin  on the Walnut Creek hike and bike trail yesterday after the rain stopped 

There is nothing like the smell of dead and burnt grass that has had a fresh soaking. The whole ride smelled like I was under a bridge 

I guess it's the little things.

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4 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

The whole ride smelled like I was under a bridge 

Sometimes you feel like you don’t have a partner?

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Sometimes you feel like you don’t have a partner?

Sometimes he feels like his only friend

Is the city he lives in

Yup we're finally getting some here.  From .01" after yesterday's dud, to over an inch with this morning's additions.

But I want more.  MOAR DAMMIT.

Ok, on the board. Nice shower this morning dropped 0.5" in about 20 minutes. 

77057 has received about 6 inches of rain in the last 11 days.  And it’s still raining and more is forecast about every day for the next week.  Still a little behind but not by much.  

Phew, was out walking the dog.  Walked inside, closed the front door and then it started pouring. 

5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Phew, was out walking the dog.  Walked inside, closed the front door and then it started pouring. 

Can I borrow your dog? 

13 hours ago, utee94 said:

Well I got a whopping 0.01" of rain today, so I'm pretty thrilled at the thought of septupling that to ring in a massive 0.07" for the whole week!

I'll tell you something, this is no longer a drought.  It's a quest.  A quest for rain!  I'm gonna get rain and you're gonna get rain. We're all gonna get so much fucking rain we're gonna need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn smiles.  We're gonna be whistling Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah out of our assholes.   Hallelujah!  Holy Shit!  Where's the Tylenol?

Very good, lol.  Probably the best part of the movie.

Anyway, whatever youse guy'ses little pitiful compounds may or may not have gotten last night, yeah, this isn't the same old shit.  We have so many weather things coming together over the next 3-6 days that it's not unpossible we could get into drought-busting categories.  I honestly haven't checked the weather a lot the past day, and not much yet today, but I will later.  But yesterday models were lining up with much lower temps, a (relatively) lot of rain, and even some mild tropical stuff this weekend.

It's a fool's game to predict when/where/how much rain will fall on your little heads specifically, but understand that the big high which always controls our summer weather, and which this year was particularly nasty, came in real early, and didn't break up, has moved in a season fashion away from Texas - it's bigly moved.  It's a yuuuge deal.  So don't be surprised if the next 5-7 days are very different.

No, it's not gonna rain all day every day.  Some days it might not rain much at all and git hot.  But the point is that this thing as we've known it is blowed up, sir.

Yeah, it could creep back in next month.  But if the ground gets wet enough now, no way we'll see 10 straight days of 105+ or whatnot.  Remind me to tell you about the earth's orbit and northern hemisphere and all that (semi-inside joke).

I'll be back if sumpin' is worth pinpointing (esp. the little tropical thing, which has a good chance of shitdumping rain on is, but not quite yet...).  Otherwise, 
- Temps mostly in low-mid 90's (could me MUCH lower if it turns into a rainy day - like this one's starting out)
- Anywhere from 1-5 inches over next week for most of us, certainly more for some, and yeah, less for others (pinpointing rain is not anywhere near accurate even these days).

Bye, until whenever.

Edit:  just to keep the record straight, when I talk here I'm talking about oh say ATX and 50 miles radius around it.  Other places I can look at if U want.  (Never mind that the SE coast and the Valley have been clobbered a good bit the past week or so - their drought is basically gone).

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I am supposed to play at Falconhead this afternoon. I assume that due to its proximity to Bee Cave that it will be completely submerged.

$110 last month for about 3,000 sq.ft. of grass. Watering thoroughly once a week.
Ordinarily I wouldn’t be watering it so much, but it is really an F-you to my HOA that forced me to remove half the graveled xeriscaping that had been in my front yard for 7 years without a problem until some neighborhood noob filed a complaint against me.  (He wanted to do the same but was turned down by the HOA nazis, so they screwed me over to the tune of a $3,500 “relandscaping” bill).

Well that’s shitty. It’s pretty hard for HOAs to enforce non-xeriscaping rules in bylaws anymore. The leg passed a law about it a few years ago. Think they can place SOME restrictions, but they can’t have a zero tolerance policy for it. I’d talk to the management company about their policy. You should be able to get rid of some of the grass if you’re so inclined.
7 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

I am supposed to play at Falconhead this afternoon. I assume that due to its proximity to Bee Cave that it will be completely submerged.

Obligatory.

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22 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Sure felt weird going out and prepping the yard for heavy rain when there isn't a cloud in the sky.

How the hell do you prep a yard for heavy rain?  Do you go out and give the grass a motivational speech or something?

2 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

How the hell do you prep a yard for heavy rain?  Do you go out and give the grass a motivational speech or something?

I have some drainage issues and a deck that I've spent wayyyyyy too much time/money working on.

So I attach an extension to one gutter downspout to carry it away from the house. Cover some of the seams on the deck with a tarp so they don't get soaked and never dry out. Put down some blankets on the flagstone to make a dam to carry the water into the rocks around the side of the yard instead of dumping straight into the grass.

It's all completely optional but it helps from creating flooded spots in the yard in heavy downpours that are hard on the grass.

4 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

I took a spin  on the Walnut Creek hike and bike trail yesterday after the rain stopped 

There is nothing like the smell of dead and burnt grass that has had a fresh soaking. The whole ride smelled like I was under a bridge 

I guess it's the little things.

so you were homeless at one time?

10 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

I have some drainage issues and a deck that I've spent wayyyyyy too much time/money working on.

So I attach an extension to one gutter downspout to carry it away from the house. Cover some of the seams on the deck with a tarp so they don't get soaked and never dry out. Put down some blankets on the flagstone to make a dam to carry the water into the rocks around the side of the yard instead of dumping straight into the grass.

It's all completely optional but it helps from creating flooded spots in the yard in heavy downpours that are hard on the grass.

Good God, that's a lot of work for some rain.  I would move.

Just now, Fudge Nuggets said:

Good God, that's a lot of work for some rain.  I would move.

Ha. It does sound it. Literally takes five minutes.

1.6" this morning down by the coast.

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22 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

I have some drainage issues and a deck that I've spent wayyyyyy too much time/money working on.

So I attach an extension to one gutter downspout to carry it away from the house. Cover some of the seams on the deck with a tarp so they don't get soaked and never dry out. Put down some blankets on the flagstone to make a dam to carry the water into the rocks around the side of the yard instead of dumping straight into the grass.

It's all completely optional but it helps from creating flooded spots in the yard in heavy downpours that are hard on the grass.

Sounds like an episode of Bluey. 

8 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Sounds like an episode of Bluey. 

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0.3 inches in 77868 yesterday, and getting a nice shower right now.  It can drop 0.3 to 0.5 inches per day for the next week, with an inch or so day thrown in, and I'd consider that a fair start.

1 hour ago, HouTex said:

77057 has received about 6 inches of rain in the last 11 days.  And it’s still raining and more is forecast about every day for the next week.  Still a little behind but not by much.  

Humblebrag much?

We got 2 inches @ 29 and Ronald Reagan yesterday, woke up to rain and the sprinklers going off

 

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The sun is never going to shine again.

 

77018 got a pretty good soaking yesterday evening and another round this morning.

Rain gauge about a mile to NW says 2.56, the one a mile to NE says 1.4. I'll split the difference and call it about 2 inches since 5:30 yesterday. 

38 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Humblebrag much?

Not meant to be.  This rain really screwed up my weekend golf plans.  We need a water pipeline to get water to the Texas Hill Country from SE Texas.

Just now, HouTex said:

Not meant to be.  This rain really screwed up my weekend golf plans.  We need a water pipeline to get water to the Texas Hill Country from SE Texas.

My wife commented to me that we moved from "it will never stop raining again" to "it will never rain again"

Feast or famine

 

26 minutes ago, Hate said:

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Man, I think you're just going to have to move at this point.

4 minutes ago, Spaulding Smails said:

Can you be rude and nice at the same time?  Can confirm that she's very rude.  I sat next to her at a charity event a few years ago.  Kidding aside, she was super cool and seemed very down to earth. 

Well, yeah.  Everyone's gonna be cool to Judge Smails' relatives.  He has sentenced young men to death because he felt he owed it to them.  You don't mess around with that kind of power.

33 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Current situation ….

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10 perc... uh, 60!?

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