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Nueces River Rat

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  1. It hit the Rockport/Port A areas and then headed towards San Antonio. But a stalled frontal boundary around Gonzales got involved and pushed it back towards the east and then back over the Gulf where it moved at very slow pace along that boundary with the moisture shield being on the north side which gave the Houston area the massive rains. https://www.weather.gov/crp/hurricane_harvey
  2. Hurricane Beulah. Before many of us were born, but it’s legend and the standard down in the RGV and the Coastal Bend for that matter. This is the rain event my parents and other old timers reference when it comes to floods and hurricanes for that matter down there https://www.weather.gov/crp/Beulah It slowly went inland and stalled much like Harvey and then drifted around for five days giving many of the cities in the region rainfall records that haven’t been broken since then. Some areas got over 30 inches of rain and this was on top of a fairly wet August in the region.
  3. I pulling for it to make it Camp Wood, Barksdale, and west of Uvalde. The Nueces River could use the water, So close to but has sat out during this event.
  4. It’s the Amber and Silver alerts (that’s for the Senior Citizen that goes missing) are becoming too much of a routine thing and finally folks discovered how to turn the audible off on their IPhone and Androids. The whole concept of the EBS/EAS was created for local emergencies which put lives in immediate danger or national crisis such as nuclear war as was the fear in the early 60’s when it was created. And of course back then the only forms of media we had was radio and TV to broadcast the warnings. I’d honestly like to know how many children or missing elderly folks have been located directly tied to those alerts. Or was it general media coverage that now gets passed down the line by social media and good police work?
  5. Yep. The fact it almost has 9,000 likes is a tell assuming most of them are aggy. I’d be fricken livid and embarrassed if this was a UT fan or grad doing the same and vocally so.
  6. There is scene from Scarface I’d like to see done to people who do this sort of thing. Actually a few scenes.
  7. Today I don’t care if my HEB is open, short staffed, or if I can’t buy shit they make because it’s out of stock. They always come through when Texans are in need.
  8. The only thing about the cell phone emergency system is the tendency now for people to shut that off themselves like I have because of the way it’s used for things like Amber or Silver Alerts. I’m not sure it was a good idea for the Emergency Alert System to be used for this in retrospect. There is nothing close to giving a person a heart attack or a step rise in blood pressure than having that alarm go off at four in the morning and find out it was missing persons report at the opposite end of the state. Please don’t take that as me minimizing that sort of event. What might be a good alternative moving forward is some sort of direct alerts that are transmitted directly to the camps and other interest along the rivers facilitated though the emergency management agencies. Make sure it gets to multiple people in charge of the facilities with the information updated every year before the peak season.
  9. You probably answered the question. The area hasn’t had a historic event like this one since 1987 almost forty years ago. They’ve had plenty of floods since then, but not one of this significance or which caused so much loss of life. It’s kind of like in hurricane prone zones with building methods or where one builds doesn’t change until an event pushes it. I think a more short term look back would be to see what they did in the Wimberley area after the Blanco floods 10 years ago.
  10. I left the insurance world a few years ago just when Flood insurance was undergoing some major changes. I know one thing that changed a lot of stuff down on the Gulf coast was the redraw of Flood maps that were prompted by events that proceeded the redraws. And with that building methods had to be adjusted in order to get coverage. And then the sticker shock set in for policy holders with National Flood Insurance polices or people thinking about building. The later might be the disincentive needed to rebuild so close to the banks. Have to think this event is going to do the same in that area and along other flood prone river areas in the Hill Country.
  11. Nueces River runs way west of San Antonio. So far it’s sitting this flood out although it would be a good thing to get some to help fill Choke Canyon and Lake Corpus Christi User name would need to be San Antonio River Rat of Cibolo Creek Rat. Usually it’s the creek that brings the worse flooding to San Antonio.
  12. Sadly this is true.
  13. Yes. It’s not uncommon at all depending where it hits in Mexico. Many of them do go more west toward the Big Bend area and contribute to the August monsoon season.
  14. I will admit I’ve been real busy this week and my usual weather nerd browsing of stuff which I usually do this time of the year due to the tropical season was a very minimum. Thank you for the clarification if I missed some stuff.
  15. These Hill Country rain events are hard to predict, especially when they involve tropical systems that come in from the south through Mexico. Some of th early models had the heaviest rains happening further south and west in the Concan/Uvalde/Leakey area. In fact I went to bed Thursday evening expecting just that to not only wake up early Friday to all the horrible news breaking just to the north of the area. This system was supposed to kick out the region yesterday and here it is today flooding areas further east this morning. Same thing with Harvey back in 2017 that was supposed to do the classic hit the coast and head toward the San Antonio area and then it curved Northeast and stalled more like an old frontal boundary and did it’s thing to the Houston area. I think the best Mets can put a forecast out there, but weather systems and patterns have a mind of their own.
  16. Brings back memories of my childhood in the late 70’s and 80’s.
  17. Was recently diagnosed with my first skin cancer a couple of weeks ago. Just a spot on my thigh, but nothing serious. They were able to burn it off instead of taking out a chunk of skin, but now I’ll have to vigilant with more routine skin checks and protecting myself better outdoors for prolonged periods. None the less when you hear the C word and you are 53, it makes you take pause.
  18. And print plastic cups and shirts.
  19. Graham is also a forever student at South Carolina. I can see him cashing in on aggy. Their fan base slurps up Billy Liucci’s drivel.
  20. Great lunch alternative! What’s funny about that Cooper’s price is chopped is supposed to be the cheaper option. The sliced version must be $40 per pound. Pass, and I mean huge pass especially at Coopers.
  21. Are these BBQ joints owned by aggy alums or boosters? If so they need to update Smolik's in Mathis because it's now owned by Greeks who own the U&I Restaurant and Nikos among others in Corpus. I don't think they are aggy, but who knows? And even under the previous owners, it was decent BBQ. But it's not destination place exactly other than being off I-37. Personally you go the Butters in Sinton for much better BBQ.
  22. You haven’t been to the Burnt Bean I see? Talk about slow and inefficient. Speaking of lines…. How fast does the line move at Leroy & Lewis? It’s been on my try list for awhile and I will up that way in a few weeks and want to give a try finally.
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