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UnivTex34
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Got some after action shots from 400 ft AGL in 78748  

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The people who can park their cars in their garage?

HenryJames
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Your demographics are way off.

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7 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Understood.  It would be nice to pass some of that water thru.

Inks and Marble Falls don't hold enough to make a real difference. LBJ is so silted in, that it may not, either. 

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8 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Grab a bucket and get to work.  ;)  

Yeah, in all seriousness---we may need to think through an engineering project that can better improve downstream flows.  But Austin Water and LCRA can fuck up a cup of mussels, I mean coffee.  noCR, say what you want about Ellen Troxclair  .........she had some great and original insights into what we could do for water stability in the region.  So naturally, everybody ignored her.  

There is already a downstream project in the works. They fucked up the design and thought it was complete 18 moths ago but realized it leaked so they had to basically start over. I think they believe it will be ready within the year now, but even once it is complete it will still need to be filled.

It is a 90k acre foot reservoir that is designed to collect excess rain that flows out of Austin or below Austin. It is basically held in reserve to be used to provide water to the rice farmers downstream and holding back more upstream for use in Austin.

it wouldn’t do much good now obviously because the current drought is so long that it would have been depleted, but it will be good in the future.

 

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Just now, HenryJames said:

Fuck the rice farmers.

Yeah…those folks that were there making a living and promised water long before you decided to go wakeboarding on lake Travis. 

If you want to take away what they were promised and afforded to them, you should pay them out on the lost wages of their livelihood and I am sure they will gladly retire.

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4 minutes ago, Fico said:

Lol ok bro….

So you’re good with just simply reneging on the deal that was negotiated and codified decades ago, before the dams were first built, and just fucking over all of the families that were\are doing nothing more than what was promised them? Just simply cut them off and offer no reimbursement or payment for their generations of work? 
 

Seriously, if you don’t like the deal that was previously made, renegotiate it and make sure everyone is compensated appropriately. It’s no different than any other contract. You can’t just decide “fuck ‘em” and stop the deal.

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3 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

So you’re good with just simply reneging on the deal that was negotiated and codified decades ago, before the dams were first built, and just fucking over all of the families that were\are doing nothing more than what was promised them? Just simply cut them off and offer no reimbursement or payment for their generations of work? 

Yes.

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My mom lives on Inks. Everyone in her subdivision who is not on the water has run a straw into the lake illegally. They just pay the people who will take money to dig across their lots. LCRA knows about it, and even though it's not legal, won't do a thing about it. One guy drains his pool and refills it from the lake on a regular basis. They all run their irrigation systems daily from the lake. 

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1 hour ago, Deej said:

My mom lives on Inks. Everyone in her subdivision who is not on the water has run a straw into the lake illegally. They just pay the people who will take money to dig across their lots. LCRA knows about it, and even though it's not legal, won't do a thing about it. One guy drains his pool and refills it from the lake on a regular basis. They all run their irrigation systems daily from the lake. 

That's a blasting.

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4 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

A rice farm in Texas seems like a horrible idea. 

Like building a city on top a swamp bad.

Back in the day, we were the largest rice producer in the country. Things have changed, but water rights are very protected. They’ll eventually replace O&G as the most lucrative of ownership rights. 

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The fuck

 

..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN WILLIAMSON...NORTHWESTERN TRAVIS AND SOUTH CENTRAL BURNET COUNTIES...

At 1015 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Lago Vista, or 10 miles west of Cedar Park, moving east at 15 mph.

HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.

Locations impacted include... Austin, Cedar Park, Anderson Mill, Leander, Lakeway, Lago Vista, Bee Cave, Hudson Bend, The Hills, Spicewood, Barton Creek, Mansfield Dam, Jonestown, Briarcliff, Point Venture, Volente, Lost Creek and Brushy Creek.
 

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Description

The National Weather Service in Austin San Antonio has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southeastern Williamson County in south central Texas... Northeastern Travis County in south central Texas... Northeastern Bastrop County in south central Texas... Central Lee County in south central Texas... Until 1145 PM CDT.

At 1044 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Windemere, moving east at 45 mph.

HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include... Austin, Round Rock, Georgetown, Pflugerville, Taylor, Elgin, Lexington, Windemere, Hutto, Manor, Thrall, Fedor, Paige, Tanglewood, Coupland, Camp Swift, Circle D-KC Estates, Hornsby Bend, Knobb Springs and Wells Branch. Expect bank accounts of roofing contractors to swell in the coming days.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Prepare immediately for large hail and damaging winds by capturing your largest neighbors, bringing them into your shelter area, and then use them as padding around you and your family. Firearms and a strong sense of self-preservation maybe needed to accomplish this task. People outside should move immediately to shelter inside a strong building. Stay away from windows. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.  

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED; MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN; WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED; MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

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That whole event was bizarre and I award that storm no points. At least it won’t disturb my satellite now so I can watch all the coronation crap as Sausage/Tampon fingers (like seriously his hands are like ham hocks) gets his BKE on…lulz.

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