August 23, 20223 yr We seem to have gotten about 3" since Thursday in SW Austin. This morning was a bit of a drizzle. Hope we can keep getting some quick top offs. I can tell some of the brown areas are greening up. Lots of rain lilies. BUT, rain lilies don't provide drinking water. We need more rain in the watersheds.
August 23, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, Catpfish said: I'm right at 2 inches (TWSS) of rain in the month of August just east of Pflugerville. It has added zero to my tank, I think my fish are going to have to grow lungs or die. It's so frustrating because you watch the radar and it's like watching a rerun of 2008 Tech, you keep hoping the ball gets caught and, yet, are always disappointed I almost negged you for the ‘08 Tech reference.
August 23, 20223 yr Author 38 minutes ago, RPM said: I remember the first time I saw the Trinity River in Dallas from my office building after a rare torrential downpour, around 1999 or 2000, and it was a holy shit picture like that. I had no idea the basin area could flood that much.
August 23, 20223 yr I know I could track this down... but it seems like there could be another big reservoir on the Trinity besides Lake Livingston. Bottle all that Dallas flood water and see about doing something useful with it. (I know it Graves is rolling in his grave, but that's a lot of water that isn't very productive. And Yes I know the Trinity is not the Brazos). Edited August 23, 20223 yr by CleverNickname
August 23, 20223 yr 24 minutes ago, CleverNickname said: I know I could track this down... but it seems like there could be another big reservoir on the Trinity besides Lake Livingston. Bottle all that Dallas flood water and see about doing something useful with it. (I know it Graves is rolling in his grave, but that's a lot of water that isn't very productive. And Yes I know the Trinity is not the Brazos). As one who is currently (finally) reading Goodbye to a River, this hits close to home
August 23, 20223 yr Several of the tributaries to the Trinity are impounded to form lakes. Cedar Creek, Richland Creek, hell even White Rock Creek. Cedar Creek and Richland Creek are major water suppliers.
August 23, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Surly Bevo said: Several of the tributaries to the Trinity are impounded to form lakes. Cedar Creek, Richland Creek, hell even White Rock Creek. Cedar Creek and Richland Creek are major water suppliers. That's what I was thinking. But h2o already in the main channel only has Lake Livingston?
August 24, 20223 yr 35 minutes ago, CleverNickname said: That's what I was thinking. But h2o already in the main channel only has Lake Livingston? Correct
August 24, 20223 yr We had another half-inch over night (from about midnight to 2am off and on). I'm literally looking at photos of the Dallas and Austin floods from earlier this week while reading about a massive discovery of more dinosaur tracks due to drought between the two flooded cities. Looks like next week could be even wetter than the last 6 days. Friday's looking the last serious chance for scrotum stew, High of 96 with 86% humidity. Those days are worse to me than 107 and dry. Was it 2019 or 2020 that we had a really mild, wet summer and then "Autumn" told us to prepare thy anus and hit us with no rain and 98* every day from Labor Day until Halloween?
August 24, 20223 yr 18 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said: Ain't that something? We probably got about another 1/2" of rain overnight. I like these little top offs and its good to see previously tan/brown landscape waking up.
August 24, 20223 yr 8 minutes ago, texasdago said: Ain't that something? We probably got about another 1/2" of rain overnight. I like these little top offs and its good to see previously tan/brown landscape waking up. We have an island in our cul de sac. It was completely brown 5 days ago. It is completely green now -- I'm sure with species of weeds that were not yet known to science, but still....green, in August. Woulda been nice to get some more of this heavy rain over the lakes, though.
August 24, 20223 yr 18 hours ago, South Austin said: I remember the first time I saw the Trinity River in Dallas from my office building after a rare torrential downpour, around 1999 or 2000, and it was a holy shit picture like that. I had no idea the basin area could flood that much. That's where they were trying for years to approve a new road/park system. Wonder why that failed? Edited August 24, 20223 yr by RPM
August 24, 20223 yr Update: Rain done, more or less. Could be a shower somewhere in the area before sunset. However, the thing in the Bay of Campeche looks to bring better rain chances late weekend/early week. In any event, temps stay down. More if/when.
August 24, 20223 yr 58 minutes ago, RPM said: That's where they were trying for years to approve a new road/park system. Wonder why that failed? Actually using that space for a park system is a great idea... you can see that in Houston with areas like George Bush Park. Turned it into soccer facilities and all types of "floodable" amenities.
August 24, 20223 yr It looks like a self-perpetuating grift mine to me. Build it, clean it up, rebuild it, repeat. At least they got Klyde Warren right. That place floods, we got bigger problems.
August 24, 20223 yr Get your pets on the flea and tick meds now cause those fuckers are about to erupt everywhere.
August 25, 20223 yr 50 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said: Possible storm/depression/hurricane next week? Per the spacecity guys, the thing labeled "1" here is reasonably likely to develop into a TD or TS in the GOM late next week. Definitely some question marks regarding Labor Day weekend weather for folks in TX and LA. Edited August 25, 20223 yr by Storm the Field
August 25, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, Hate said: There was a small dent made to the drought over the last week. Geez. Even with the flooding, the Dallas area is still in severe drought conditions? That's pretty crazy
August 25, 20223 yr Geez. Even with the flooding, the Dallas area is still in severe drought conditions? That's pretty crazyNo most of DFW is now in moderate drought. You can see where the light beige cuts right through the metro where the rain train ran. But no we needed 15 inches ACROSS North Texas to break the drought. So still plenty to be had.
August 26, 20223 yr Another 2 inches overnight in 77057. About 10 inches so far in August. Shame we can't spread it out. It continues to screw up my golf plans.
August 26, 20223 yr Good lord, you can cut the air with a knife right now. I think I prefer 100 degrees and dry over this shit.
August 28, 20223 yr What the hell is that torrent hitting that's causing it to stand up and can it come play OL for us? Edited August 28, 20223 yr by Post Oak
August 28, 20223 yr 9 hours ago, leaf said: This has been here for over 2 1/2 hours. 3.5” at my house in Brushy Creek 78717
August 28, 20223 yr 13 minutes ago, WithoutAClue said: i got 4 inches from that one cloud in Cedar Park. my dirt appreciated it. That was nasty. Drove down to Tomo to pickup dinner for my wife and I, sky was all kinds of gnarly. Rain started just as the kids were going to bed. Right as we were watching end of episode one of House of Dragons, shit hit the fan and scared my kiddos right outta bed in a big way…totally burned my chances with the wife, though I’m sure that birth scene wasn’t helping either.
August 28, 20223 yr 10 hours ago, leaf said: This has been here for over 2 1/2 hours. We were coming back from a soccer game in RR early evening. Saw this building to the west. Automatically assumed it would fade with the sunset. Not so I guess.
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