December 23, 20232 yr Ask and ye shall receive. Just started pouring here in near SW Austin. Looks like the real shot starts in a few hours.
December 24, 20232 yr At this rate, we are going to have to start a 2024 Lake Travis countdown to 0 thread.
December 24, 20232 yr 19 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said: At this rate, we are going to have to start a 2024 Lake Travis countdown to 0 thread. Wow https://isthelakefullyet.com/#volume
December 24, 20232 yr Just under 1.5" in 24 hours, west Austin. Looks like things are better northwest of town, which is good (if minor) news.
December 24, 20232 yr Just stopped, looks like we're at about 1.25" for this 24-hour period. I can't remember though when I emptied it out yesterday. Friday was a letdown overall. But yesterday and this morning made up for quite a bit. Have two neighbors with family coming in from up north thinking, "You're talking about a draught. Your jackass neighbor has mulch and soil all washed down his driveway into the street." Yeah well, fuck you. We need it, and it's Christmas Eve...I ain't cleaning up shit. Let your grandkids ride their new motor scooter somewhere else...this is my Christmas Present...free water from the sky! But yeah, we won't see what this last 48 hours did for the lakes until runoff is complete, but is the best it's received (not looked, but received), in a few months. Next week bring another round hopefully. Streets should be dried up by later today, no jinx. Safe travels, draught-stricken Mad Max Road Warriors. and i spoke too soon, in a good way (for once). New torrential downpour in close-in SW Austin. Wow, it was starting to clear up and now 1-2tenths in less than 10 minutes. That got weird for a second. Already starting to let up. gonna go check the creek in a bit, this may actually get interesting. If Nicole44 is behind me though, lemme know. Edited December 24, 20232 yr by YGIFS
December 24, 20232 yr 2.5 in Hewitt. Just a slow steady rain from last night till this morning. It was lovely. I actually have puddles in my back yard.
December 24, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, Post Oak said: 2.5 in Hewitt. Just a slow steady rain from last night till this morning. It was lovely. I can't overstate how nice it was to wake up a couple of times overnight and hear a light rain coming down. It's good for the soul.
December 24, 20232 yr 20 hours ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said: Looks like Austin is getting all the rain. Got our customary 0.05 west of NB. West of NB ???
December 24, 20232 yr 37 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said: You should feel bad knowing that Nickleback dude has an East/West shirt. HaHaHaHa😂😂😂😂
December 24, 20232 yr On 12/22/2023 at 5:06 PM, Brisketexan said: The story on the water systems in Spain is amazing, and ancient. The oldest continuously operating court in the world? The Tribunal de les Aigües de València - the Water Tribunal of the plain of Valencia. It has convened weekly for the past 1,100 years, and adjudicates disputes about rights to the water distributed in local canals. Pretty cool. Csb/ The Spanish built acequias in the mountains of NM, and they are still overseen by mayorodomos. While visiting friends in Abiquiu, I helped dam the acequia at the start of our friend’s allotted irrigation time, and watched the water flow over an alfalfa field that once belonged to Georgia O’Keeffe, before it watered our friend’s garden. That, too, was cool.
December 25, 20232 yr 14 hours ago, Willfully Horn said: Csb/ The Spanish built acequias in the mountains of NM, and they are still overseen by mayorodomos. While visiting friends in Abiquiu, I helped dam the acequia at the start of our friend’s allotted irrigation time, and watched the water flow over an alfalfa field that once belonged to Georgia O’Keeffe, before it watered our friend’s garden. That, too, was cool. Nerd.
December 25, 20231 yr 19 hours ago, troph said: never thought I'd be so excited about just an inch. it felt good though, I'll tell ya that. enough in the tank to last me a whole month. until next time... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
December 30, 20231 yr No rain until Tuesday it looks like, so here's where we will end up: Looks like about 9" below normal or 75% of our average rainfall. Considering the hellscape that was this summer, that's not the worst, I guess.
December 30, 20231 yr 31 minutes ago, Hate said: El Nino is helping the drought...slowly but surely. Edited December 30, 20231 yr by Navin R. Johnson
December 30, 20231 yr 11 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said: Looks like about 9" below normal or 75% of our average rainfall. Considering the hellscape that was this summer, that's not the worst, I guess. Yikes. Any idea of the total rainfall May thru August? "Approximately none" is an acceptable answer.
December 30, 20231 yr 6 minutes ago, troph said: Yeah but that’s two years in a row. So we are actually pushing a near 20 inch deficit. That’s really bad. Lake out west should have told you
December 30, 20231 yr Everything's fine. You guys are just alarmists hyped up by media hyperbole. There was a small brushfire this morning down near Campbell's Hole. Quickly put out by our local fire house. A brushfire. In December. Nope, this El Nino cycle will save us.
December 30, 20231 yr What is alarming is the number of fireworks stands open on 290. Seems like a bad idea, but what do I know.
December 30, 20231 yr Yeah, this is a particularly bad year for people to set off fireworks on NYE. We say that every year, but this is especially bad since the weeks leading up have been bone dry and forecast shows substantial winds that night. But as usual my neighbors are of the mindset, "Been in Texas for decades, ain't gonna let a lack of rain ruin our New Year's tradition!" Yeah, well we all live on a shared creekbed that is a tributary of Barton Springs. If you listen at night, you can hear the sounds of limbs crackling and snapping in the wind. The only moisture in the creekbed is the blood of the dead animals down there that the vultures are waiting to feed on. But you do you folks, set the shit on fire. Edited December 30, 20231 yr by YGIFS
January 8, 20241 yr The year was moist. Substantial downpour for the last two hours. Between this morning and the drizzle we had midweek last week, we are about 2” for the year. Which, given last year, does mean jackshit in the grand scheme except weeds. But I’ll take it. looks like even more expected late morning for Austin. Based on just the radar, looks like it’s helping the lakes but hard to tell without that cool runoff tool some of y’all lost after a rain. It’s weird how you never see Nicole post anything after a rain like this for a day or two.
January 8, 20241 yr Author 36 minutes ago, YGIFS said: It’s weird how you never see Nicole post anything after a rain like this for a day or two. Also, it was ladies night at the Lustre Pearl last night.
January 8, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, YGIFS said: It’s weird how you never see Nicole post anything after a rain like this for a day or two. You know what they say, when the lake is fillin' it's time for killin'.
January 8, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, South Austin said: Also, it was ladies night at the Lustre Pearl last night. Where the ladies drink free. And the men swim 'freely'?
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