2022 Rain Thread

[Biff Tannen 45678]

Both my front and back doors are now warping and contacting the frame, which I'm assuming is due to foundation settling because we haven't had any GOT DAMN rain in two months.

[Deej 76764]

Put some soaker hoses around your foundation.

Just don't over do it. You can fuck your foundation up when the soil expands too much, too.

Edited August 13, 2022 by Deej

[Schulz2.0 28951]

Looks like south Texas is going to get soaked.

[ScottS 1062]

12 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Looks like south Texas is going to get soaked.

As a resident of the coastal bend I can confirm that soakage is currently happening.  And it is badly needed.

[Biff Tannen 45678]

Radar and Dark Sky shows rain in 78751 right now.  Not a fucking drop in reality.  WTF is going on.

[Guest]

I got drops. Several of them.

[boknowstecmo 216]

It sneezed a little bit on 183. 

[Js1 85316]

3 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Looks like south Texas is going to get soaked.

Him and his mom?!

[Judge Roybeanbag 11819]

20 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Both my front and back doors are now warping and contacting the frame, which I'm assuming is due to foundation settling because we haven't had any GOT DAMN rain in two months.

If they are steel doors they could just be warped (thermal bow). Our front door gets direct late afternoon sun and warped in the last couple years since it’s been so fucking hot.

Edited August 14, 2022 by Judge Roybeanbag

[Biff Tannen 45678]

2 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

If they are steel doors they could just be warped (thermal bow). Our front door gets direct late afternoon sun and warped in the last couple years since it’s been so fucking hot.

That's what I'm hoping because they are metal.  Got a soaker hose for the foundation that's coming tomorrow, just in case.  Also, gray clouds all around now, but still no rain in 78751.

[Ten Bears 2481]

39 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

That's what I'm hoping because they are metal.  Got a soaker hose for the foundation that's coming tomorrow, just in case.  Also, gray clouds all around now, but still no rain in 78751.

I'm thinking I might replace the soaker hoses I put out this year and use regular drip irrigation instead.  My yard is sloped and all faucets are downhill so at the top I am not getting much water and at the bottom it is soaked.  ymmv

[Wiler77 1566]

Got 0.15 in Driftwood, which is 0.15 more than we've had in 2 months.  Between that and the clouds I'm not complaining.

[Deej 76764]

Rained enough in 78753 to tamp the dust down, at least. 

[F250 28769]

I was eating lunch in Stone Oak this afternoon when the sky turned black and dropped more rain than I've seen in a long fucking time.

[Hmbre97 6308]

I'm thinking I might replace the soaker hoses I put out this year and use regular drip irrigation instead.  My yard is sloped and all faucets are downhill so at the top I am not getting much water and at the bottom it is soaked.  ymmv

What about running a normal hose from faucet to elevated area and connecting your soaker hose there?

[Armybrat 40834]

2 hours ago, Wiler77 said:

Got 0.15 in Driftwood, which is 0.15 more than we've had in 2 months.  Between that and the clouds I'm not complaining.

That’s what we got on the west side of Round Rock.

[Bevo 13576]

Don't think we have had any west of Armybrat.

[Ten Bears 2481]

21 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

2 hours ago, Ten Bears said:

I'm thinking I might replace the soaker hoses I put out this year and use regular drip irrigation instead.  My yard is sloped and all faucets are downhill so at the top I am not getting much water and at the bottom it is soaked.  ymmv

What about running a normal hose from faucet to elevated area and connecting your soaker hose there?

Well sure, if you want to use common sense (sulks to the backyard to fix this)

[Deej 76764]

28 minutes ago, Hmbre97 said:

2 hours ago, Ten Bears said:

I'm thinking I might replace the soaker hoses I put out this year and use regular drip irrigation instead.  My yard is sloped and all faucets are downhill so at the top I am not getting much water and at the bottom it is soaked.  ymmv

What about running a normal hose from faucet to elevated area and connecting your soaker hose there?

But then you wouldn't have that one green streak of grass running up to the house. 

[Texzilla58 4734]

My wife assured me it was nothing to be ashamed of. 

Girth counts too. Do you have Lake Mead size girth?

[Texzilla58 4734]

Reminds me of trying to convince my wife to move to Portland -- "too much rain" -- 43 inches per year, Austin is 35 inches, Houston is 53 -- "wut?".
Facts don't matter.

I fell for that bullshit. We were living in the Bay Area, I went to interview for a gig in Portland.. my wife said “find out about the fucking rain!”

In my interview with the CEO, a Portland native, I asked about the rain. “That’s a myth we perpetuate to keep the fucking Californians away. We have rainforests that get like 340 inches a year, but here it rains less than it does in Dallas. You can look it up!”

Called wife. “What about the fucking rain?” No worries! It rains leads here than it does in Dallas. I looked it up!

Moving van drove away and it began to rain. For 47 straight days. We were there three years. It does rain less than it does in Dallas but it rains real fucking slow. 10 fucking months of 44 and rain. The cloud ceiling is at 19 feet. The place nearly killed my marriage. 80% of women have seasonal affective disorder, so the crazy factor is off the charts. Had to get her a light box to sit in front of. You want to live in the PNW go somewhere else. Seattle gets double the rain but twice the sun. Or go to the Cascade high desert which gets sun like San Diego. A move to Portland will quadruple the odds of your wife giving you a chainsaw vasectomy.

[atomheartbevo 89656]

2 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:

A move to Portland will quadruple the odds of your wife giving you a chainsaw vasectomy.

[chainsaw 9866]

17 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:

I fell for that bullshit. We were living in the Bay Area, I went to interview for a gig in Portland.. my wife said “find out about the fucking rain!”

In my interview with the CEO, a Portland native, I asked about the rain. “That’s a myth we perpetuate to keep the fucking Californians away. We have rainforests that get like 340 inches a year, but here it rains less than it does in Dallas. You can look it up!”

Called wife. “What about the fucking rain?” No worries! It rains leads here than it does in Dallas. I looked it up!

Moving van drove away and it began to rain. For 47 straight days. We were there three years. It does rain less than it does in Dallas but it rains real fucking slow. 10 fucking months of 44 and rain. The cloud ceiling is at 19 feet. The place nearly killed my marriage. 80% of women have seasonal affective disorder, so the crazy factor is off the charts. Had to get her a light box to sit in front of. You want to live in the PNW go somewhere else. Seattle gets double the rain but twice the sun. Or go to the Cascade high desert which gets sun like San Diego. A move to Portland will quadruple the odds of your wife giving you a chainsaw vasectomy.

man's gotta make a living

[Orange&White 5524]

Played at Kissing Tree in San Marcos yesterday. At about 1:10 PM, there was massive crack of lightening while I was on the chipping green and a few minutes later, it started pouring. Rained pretty hard for about 15-20 minutes and soaked the course. Standing water on the tee-boxes when we finally got out to play. The cell looked pretty localized on the radar.

[texasdago 7573]

Sidewalks got wet yesterday when I was trying to chop down some limbs... I didn't complain although 5 minutes later it was humid as a pair of Fruit of the Looms in Singapore.

[Bevo 13576]

rain cloud here in north austin

[Brisketexan 105101]

1 hour ago, Bevo said:

rain cloud here in north austin

Weird name for one of my farts, but ok.

[phdhorn 6224]

Look, I'm here.

Bestest chance of real widespread rain in Austin area coming up this week.

That ain't much, but it's all I got.  And I ain't got nothin' since June 27.  Dealwiddit.

Back if necessary (HA!).  Or not.

[Bevo 13576]

38 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Weird name for one of my farts, but ok.

I think you are correct. It looks like a wet fart sitting somewhere over Great Hills.

[bolverk 29671]

Got some sprinkles on the windshield during the drive home on South Lamar from the intersection at Manchaca to curbside parking at Central Market. None in the hood further south though.

[tx 3 putt 76925]

[Biff Tannen 45678]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

neat

[tx 3 putt 76925]

6 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

neat

that bright yellow needed to be much further north but any rain at this point is great 

[Jerry Callo 8700]

Dark clouds in the sky, so I went out and washed the car. If that doesn't work, we're fucked.

*On a more upbeat note, when typing the last sentence, my keyboard suggested fuck, fucking, and fucksake.

[tx 3 putt 76925]

maybe South Texas can catch some more rain. Would be great to hit the edwards .....

 

[utee94 15818]

We'll

Get 

Nothing

And

Like

It

 

[Sawbonz 27548]

3 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

[phdhorn 6224]

13 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

maybe South Texas can catch some more rain. Would be great to hit the edwards .....

 

[texasdago 7573]

Just scoot scoot that up and over into the Hill Country and Austin, plz.

[Storm the Field 5294]

Models are showing the high-pressure dome that has been parked over Texas all summer finally clearing out.

Good news: This should generally increase rain chances and put an end to triple digit temps.

Bad news: Forcefield that has put the kibosh on tropical disturbances all summer will no longer be active, just in time for hurricane season to kick off.

[NorthLoop 14195]

6 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:

 

Bad news: Forcefield that has put the kibosh on tropical disturbances all summer will no longer be active, just in time for hurricane season to kick off.

That's bad news? 

 

[Hpara759 1778]

1 hour ago, Storm the Field said:

Models are showing the high-pressure dome that has been parked over Texas all summer finally clearing out.

 

 

[ztejas 43419]

1 hour ago, Storm the Field said:

Models are showing the high-pressure dome that has been parked over Texas all summer finally clearing out.

Good news: This should generally increase rain chances and put an end to triple digit temps.

Bad news: Forcefield that has put the kibosh on tropical disturbances all summer will no longer be active, just in time for hurricane season to kick off.

[tx 3 putt 76925]

[Hate 20108]

8 hours ago, ztejas said:

We haven't even reached peak hurricane season yet.  Lots can and will change over the next 6 weeks.

[Biff Tannen 45678]

[Jersey Man10 3528]

[hornian 5217]

11 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

my reaction (also used in the blast furnace thread):

 

I'l believe this one when I actually feel it. 

[texasdago 7573]

Last updates I saw were 1-2" which would be amazing but color me skeptical

 

[texasdago 7573]

lulz - hope this comes to fruition

https://fb.watch/eYNLhIcdpN/