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  • BlackCat
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    I got my boy out from La Junta. As far as I can tell the whole camp got to high ground well in advance of the bad stuff and watched the camp get obliterated. My son is 8 and they took the younger kids

  • HOOKEM4
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    We are talking about CR because we have a bunch of bitch ass snowflakes that are offended by reality. The fact they cant see the reality is the problem. Also cry less pussies.  Kids died and we h

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    I'm heartbroken by this event, like many here not one of us 4 in my family doesn't know someone at most 2 Kevin Bacon steps from ourselves who is dealing with loss of human life. So much I could

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5 hours ago, ztejas said:

Buddy on ig just posted this. Anyone have an answer for him? 

@phdhorn?

This is referencing the greenbelt that runs through Austin. 

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I follow a site on FB called "Does the Greenbelt Have Water." They showed plenty of videos of a wet greenbelt. 

23 minutes ago, Chopper said:

A mostly worthless opinion column by a posturing Michael Bloomberg illustrates that even one aggy knows what's up

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-08/michael-bloomberg-texas-floods-made-worse-by-climate-denialism

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Sir, this isn't news. This is just a political opinion. You're in the wrong place. 

Wow, aggy is so woke 

38 minutes ago, Chopper said:

A mostly worthless opinion column by a posturing Michael Bloomberg illustrates that even one aggy knows what's up

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-08/michael-bloomberg-texas-floods-made-worse-by-climate-denialism

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For those that can't get behind the paywall:

 

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The Texas Floods Were Made Worse by Climate Denialism

Elected officials must be held accountable, now and in the future, for the lives lost in disasters brought on by increasingly extreme weather.

July 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM CDT
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No one can do this alone.

No one can do this alone.

 

 

The tragic news out of central Texas has been heartbreaking, but it’s also been maddening — because so many lives could have been saved if elected officials had done their jobs. They owe the families who lost loved ones — the death toll from the Fourth of July floods is now at more than 100 — more than thoughts and prayers. They owe them a sincere commitment to righting their deadly wrong, by tackling the problem they’ve turned their backs on for too long: climate change.

The scientific evidence is clear that the more frequent extreme weather we are experiencing is being driven by climate change — and that it’s only going to get worse. As the director of the Texas Center for Extreme Weather at Texas A&M University put it, the storms and flooding in central Texas are “exactly what the future is going to hold.” And yet so many elected officials are pretending otherwise.

The latest episode of horrific flooding isn’t just about a natural disaster in one state. It’s also about a political failure that’s been happening in states across the country, and most of all in Washington. The refusal to recognize that climate change carries a death penalty is sending innocent people, including far too many children, to early graves.

 

Nearly a year ago, Hurricane Helene caused devastating flooding in western North Carolina that killed more than 100 people. A few months later, wildfires in California killed 30 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. This month, the death and destruction of climate change came to Texas. Where will be next? No place is safe.

Not every life can be spared from climate change, unfortunately, but many more could be saved if elected officials stopped pretending that they’re powerless to do anything about it. The fact is: Climate change is a manageable problem with practical solutions. Those solutions will not only save lives, but they will also improve our health, reduce our energy bills and create more jobs. The longer these officials pretend otherwise, the more the public will suffer, and the more people will die. And yet what are those in power in Washington doing? Worse than nothing: They are actively thwarting efforts to address climate change and help communities cope with its harms.

The Trump administration has erased the words “climate change” — and critical climate data and information — from government websites, as if the problem could be wished away. It is attempting to roll back the Environmental Protection Agency’s obligation to fight climate change. And it has put lives at risk by canceling grants to local communities to help them prepare for the effects of climate change — and by cutting essential positions at the National Weather Service that help communities prepare and respond to disasters, leaving the weather service’s offices in the areas around the flooding short-staffed.

Last week, the administration even proposed eliminating a research office that plays a critical role in forecasting extreme weather. And that’s not the end of it.

On the same day the Texas floods killed dozens of people, the president signed a budget bill that, in addition to piling on $3 trillion to the national debt, gutted the nation’s efforts to promote renewable energy sources. The new budget repeals tax credits for clean energy production, electric vehicles and clean manufacturing while also eliminating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which Congress created to help increase private-sector investment in clean energy. As a result, many fewer such projects will be built, killing jobs in communities across the country and driving up energy costs.

 

All of this will make it harder for the US to drive down the greenhouse-gas emissions that are helping to supercharge deadly storms, while increasing the human toll and financial costs of extreme weather — and making it harder for states and localities to recover from it.

Local and state governments do not have the resources to dig out from disasters on their own, which is why Texas Governor Greg Abbott has requested support and financial assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Yet the administration has been busy gutting the agency, which has lost some 20% of its full-time staff since the start of the year. Making matters worse, the administration has proposed getting rid of FEMA altogether, which would be a disaster in itself.

 

In short: The federal government is attempting to get out of the business of helping communities prepare for and respond to climate-fueled weather disasters just as they’re becoming more deadly and destructive. It won’t work. As the flooding in Texas painfully demonstrates, Washington cannot escape its duty to confront climate change. Trying to do so will only lead to higher body counts and heavier financial burdens on communities.

To Abbott’s credit, he has stood up for the state’s clean energy industry and helped kill several bills that would have put an anti-free-market cap on clean energy production and subjected wind and solar power projects to additional red tape. We need more of our elected representatives to recognize that climate change should not be a partisan issue — and that it requires urgent cooperation from members of both parties, as well as both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

That’s not only the right thing to do. Increasingly, it will also become the essential thing to do for political self-survival — because as extreme weather events become more and more frequent, voters will increasingly hold elected officials accountable for taking action.

 

There is much more that our governments can be doing to protect us — and our children and theirs — from the worsening effects of climate change. But for that to happen, all of us need to make our voices heard, and our votes count.

He sure as shit better be pitching in big $$$ from the Philanthropies side of the house for as much as he's Monday Morning QBing this.

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Final Update: Finally, we're done here!
Okay, system is still out there but weakened. This low pressure system coming in from the coast is bumping it out. Now this low has its own rain-making capabilites and therefore chances of "normal" July afternoon storms is pretty good, but coverage will be more scattered. The CTX atmosphere is still pretty humid so there's a lot of fuel, but the triggering mechanism not so intense. In other words we're almost back to normal. July will set in after Wednesday - trending sunnier and hotter - and drier. However all the tons of water fallen on our ground will probably keep 100's away for at least another week if not more. So one small plus on this otherwise awful episode is that we'll be over 1 1/2 months without a triple-digit day (I hear Aug and Sept saying, "hold my beer" but it's possible that this year could be a little different - there hasn't been a really strong high parking over us for weeks on end, even back in May with those 100's... the high moved in and out pretty quickly. (There, I just jinxed it, 100 degree days comin' up!).

Epilogue - I try to post here especially when weather is critical to calm nerves and hopefully put at ease by giving perspective and "what's going on" and "what's next?". I guess I've had a talent for weather (people have told me so since I was  kid), and I actually did intern at NASA for a time plotting hurricane info when I was 15. I was going to go into either astronomy or meteorology as a career, then I entered both programs in college - and promptly found out that there were no chicks (definitely not the case now as you guys frequently have posted here), and a buncha nerds which closely resembled the seating section that Pinto and Flounder were invited to sit in at the Omega House. Anyway I've always liked the sky, be it immediate (meteorology) or farther out (astronomy). If I can help calm nerves and assuage fears during weather crises I think I owe it to "whomever" to use that talent and I think that's important. Can't always be correct, but people doing this do their best.

Beyond this I do here and there glance at this thread on the site; otherwise just send me a PM or one of those tag things and I'll check it out. Meanwhile I can hope that the grieving period and cleanup/rebuilding of these devastated areas - and lives - can proceed with grace and hope.

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16 hours ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

Take it to the cloak room jabroni. Keep this bullshit out of here.

Fuck you, you dumbass snowflake piece of shit.  Facts over goddamned feelings.  You should be forced to look at pics of these dead children and campers daily.  
 

im sick of posters like you being a snowflake and crying to send it to cloak room where you can’t handle the fucking debate.  

16 hours ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

Take it to the cloak room jabroni. Keep this bullshit out of here.

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The poster y’all keep quoting is a known fuckhead idiot. You won’t change his mind and you won’t shame him into correcting his behavior. Put him on ignore and let him talk to himself

5 hours ago, ztejas said:

Buddy on ig just posted this. Anyone have an answer for him? 

@phdhorn?

This is referencing the greenbelt that runs through Austin. 

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Depends on how far back in time you wanna go. I’m just playing the odds and assuming the person who posted that hasn’t lived here their whole lives…
 

I live on Barton Creek, albeit a bit upstream. It got a pretty decent amount of water, and it’s still flowing nicely, but it didn’t really get THAT much water. We’ve had several storms over the last few years that contributed far more to it. The water is staying in the creek longer than it has in 4-5 years simply because the rain has come in several spurts, but we never got a sustained influx of a lot of water. Now, one more good deluge would probably do it, at least where I am, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards.

20-30 years ago though? Yeah, I don’t know the answer. Growing up, there was water down there most years, even fairly late into the summer. Of course, there were bad years when it mostly dried up before school even let out, but those were the exceptions. They now seem closer to the rule. Purely from my own observations, it just seems like there’s far less residual, ground water. Back in the day, after heavy rains, it seemed like water was coming out of the ground (near the creeks) for weeks. Now, it’s a couple days at best. I’d assume that has a lot to do with construction and impervious cover doing a number of things (destroying a lot of those natural underground waterways, diverting water elsewhere, collecting water in retention ponds, etc). Just think about every culvert and storm drain. So much water is collected far from the creek and then dumped almost straight into it. All that water used to take days/weeks to work its way down to the creek. It now happens in minutes. That leaves the creeks to receive the initial runoff, but provides far less residual groundwater inflow.  That leads to empty creek beds within days, even after torrential downpours. 
 

There’s surely other reasons, but I’d be shocked if my theory isn’t a huge contributing factor.

38 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

I was going to go into either astronomy or meteorology as a career, then I entered both programs in college - and promptly found out that there were no chicks (definitely not the case now as you guys frequently have posted here), and a buncha nerds which closely resembled the seating section that Pinto and Flounder were invited to sit in at the Omega House.

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1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

I follow a site on FB called "Does the Greenbelt Have Water." They showed plenty of videos of a wet greenbelt. 

Sir, this isn't news. This is just a political opinion. You're in the wrong place. 

I know (okay I don't know for surrrrre) that you're being sarcastic but I thought I posted it to CR. Oh well. #toomanythreads

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15 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

There’s surely other reasons, but I’d be shocked if my theory isn’t a huge contributing factor.

That theory doesn't hold any water.

29 minutes ago, bolverk said:

That theory doesn't hold any water.

But Lake Travis does!

Up to 658.6, so now it's 21' up and still rising, if much slower.  

LCRA reports that flood operations at Wirtz and Starcke have concluded for the time being.

1 hour ago, HalfSack Horn said:

Fuck you, you dumbass snowflake piece of shit.  Facts over goddamned feelings.  You should be forced to look at pics of these dead children and campers daily.  
 

im sick of posters like you being a snowflake and crying to send it to cloak room where you can’t handle don't have to engage in the fucking debate.  

FIFY

This is also news - it's not just more frequent storms, and more water in the atmosphere to be aware of, but the “trapping” effect that causes weather such as heat domes or rainstorms to remain over one region is becoming more frequent. Further, the current-generation climate models do not do a good job in capturing this phenomenon.

 

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5 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:

The poster y’all keep quoting is a known fuckhead idiot

I’m sorry, but you’re gonna have to narrow it down quite a bit

9 hours ago, texasdago said:

I'm very much looking forward to the update

Keetch-Byram Index through 7-7-25

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58 minutes ago, troph said:

Edwards aquifer up 3 feet … not surprised it isn’t more most of the water ended up in creeks rivers and lakes 

 

https://www.tpr.org/environment/2025-07-07/canyon-lake-edwards-aquifer-water-levels-jump-after-flooding?_amp=true

Expected but good news none the less. It will come up more over the next week or so but slow soaking rain fills aquifers much better than 20" in 2 days. Things are still looking up.

Is your rainwater system full now?

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7 hours ago, Chopper said:

This is also news - it's not just more frequent storms, and more water in the atmosphere to be aware of, but the “trapping” effect that causes weather such as heat domes or rainstorms to remain over one region is becoming more frequent. Further, the current-generation climate models do not do a good job in capturing this phenomenon.

 

I’m not sure why this picture evokes for me the hotel room where MLK was shot.  It’s probably not even close but just looks the same.  

1 hour ago, troph said:

Edwards aquifer up 3 feet … not surprised it isn’t more most of the water ended up in creeks rivers and lakes 

 

https://www.tpr.org/environment/2025-07-07/canyon-lake-edwards-aquifer-water-levels-jump-after-flooding?_amp=true

Out at my place in north Hays Co, it rained almost 5 inches slowly in 3 days. All soaked in.  Amazing how much even that terrain can soak up when it’s not a torrential downpour.  We’d get heavy rain for 30 minutes or an hour and puddles would appear, then it would slow, and a few minutes later the puddles were gone.  We got the good stuff.  Thankful for that.  No flooding.  

Grandma in Milam county reported in that all the tanks are full and San Gabriel and Turkey creek are out of their banks. 

Major deluge during afternoon commute in Dallas today.  Lots of pooling water, and Greenville Avenue totally flooded outside the Royal Oaks CC entrance - cars were barely getting by on the median.  We've gotten almost none of what y'all have received down there the past week, so this was a change.

Oh shit! Just got a flash flood warning on my phone here in Las Colinas!! 

10 minutes ago, sasquatch69 said:

Major deluge during afternoon commute in Dallas today.  Lots of pooling water, and Greenville Avenue totally flooded outside the Royal Oaks CC entrance - cars were barely getting by on the median.  We've gotten almost none of what y'all have received down there the past week, so this was a change.

It rained for a couple hours 4th of July night in the Lucas/Allen/Parker area.

23 minutes ago, speed817 said:

Oh shit! Just got a flash flood warning on my phone here in Las Colinas!! 

Watch that drywall at the new McDonalds. 

52 minutes ago, troph said:

 We got 4-5 inches total so up 14,000 gallons, at about 37,000 up from 23,000. That’s just above half full.  We’re pretty much set at this point. We will have excess over the next 12 months even if we only get half the rains we usually get.

Wish I had a system setup. We got close to 10" over the last week. The way we use water, we would be set. Wild how isolated this deal was.

46 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Watch that drywall at the new McDonalds. 

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1 hour ago, sasquatch69 said:

Major deluge during afternoon commute in Dallas today.  Lots of pooling water, and Greenville Avenue totally flooded outside the Royal Oaks CC entrance - cars were barely getting by on the median.  We've gotten almost none of what y'all have received down there the past week, so this was a change.

What's hilarious is Delkus (and I'm usually a big fan) posted something to the effect of "it should be clear tonight" about an hour before this all hit.  I checked radar right before I left downtown as I saw some clouds to the north east but looked like nothing so took off then was in the middle of it last couple of miles (and I live close to Royal Oaks and know to avoid that Greenville area when it rains like this).  It's been raining off and on ever since and we lost power for about 30 minutes.  Not that crazy of a storm or anything but bizarre nobody locally really predicted it and it soaked a big chunk of the metroplex.  I don't think anyone really knows what to do with whatever the system is - very atypical pattern.

Well shoot - sort of
This is the low that came in from the coast. It's not related to the disastrous one of last weekend, but it is tapping into some of its moisture making it more potent than otherwise. Fortunately most of the rain with this is falling E of 35, but there is a big pocket of heavy rain running NE up E. Blanco and W. Travis going into Williamson - right over the Cow Creek/Sandy Creek area; there's more backbuilding so it could be a minor flooding situation this afternoon. Those areas should be prepared for brief flooding. Otherwise Kerrville etc. is dry right now but rain could develop anywhere in our region before this low moves out overnight (the other one is gone as far as we're concerned).

This is the most rain I've had at one point, even including the weekend here in Bee Cave where yup, it freakin' always rains. Over 2" in 45 minutes. I think my crossing will flood briefly. HARD rain coming down. All moving to the NE, the brunt will head up NW Travis as I said, towards Round Rock. Right now Travis Co. is under a flood advisory, which is one step down from a flash flood warning. So careful out there. I would expect Williamson to maybe get one later.  Don't see this being a huge deal west of Austin at this time but I'll be back if so.

Anyway, this crap should all be outta here this evening, tomorrow sunny, hot, mid-90's.

Anything more I'll be back, but hopefully this is it today.

South Austin just took a pounding, several inches an hour and very intense.

It also rained a bunch in 49.

Apparently my hood and the immediate area is getting peppered with lightning 

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28 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

South Austin just took a pounding, several inches an hour and very intense.

Oh like you've never been to a Turkish bath.

27 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Apparently my hood and the immediate area is getting peppered with lightning 

pew pew pew

Same here in the '52. Not much rain just pew pews and mortar blasts.

Home's been getting it pretty good on the west side of town, while the office ('30) is just starting to get rain in the last 15 minutes.

9 minutes ago, troph said:

Buchanan watershed getting it right now. if it holds together Llano river and LBJ watershed are next, could make it's way into Travis after that. long line, horizontal across the highland lakes region.  should all be runoff at this point.  wow.

Hell yeah!

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