2023 Rain Thread

[ftf82 494]

Cow pissing on a flat lake at Horseshoe Bay right now

[Armybrat 41429]

32 minutes ago, ftf82 said:

Cow pissing on a flat lake at Horseshoe Bay right now

Looks like it’s gonna be a. pretty good storm front for the Austin metro area.

[atomheartbevo 90665]

3 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Looks like it’s gonna be a. pretty good storm front for the Austin metro area.

It might skirt the northern part of Austin and miss the rest of us.  But the game tonight might be a little wet. 

[Biff Tannen 46195]

Shits about to get real

[Anastasis 23718]

Sky looking crazy as fuck right now.  

[leaf 721]

Coming down heavy in 78628

1” in 15 minutes 

Edited September 16, 2023 by leaf

[Anastasis 23718]

MILFS getting wet af right now. 

[Grade of D as in David 13255]

Just started in 78758

[Brisketexan 106988]

Blowing and pouring rain near AHS.

[South Austin 53242]

At 5280 on Far West and shit’s looking ready to hit.

[Blotto 24042]

7 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

MILFS getting wet af right now. 

get your sketch pad out

[atomheartbevo 90665]

Is it actually going to beat the force field?

Edited September 16, 2023 by atomheartbevo

[HenryJames 67445]

But muh forcefeeld!!

[leaf 721]

Not bad for 30 minutes 

 

[atomheartbevo 90665]

[AUS-97HORN 12052]

coming down pretty strong in 78757

[MissingInAction 25568]

[ztejas 44267]

26 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

near AHS

[HenryJames 67445]

People in Steiner Ranch might not have to water today.

[AUS-97HORN 12052]

9 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

People in Steiner Ranch might not have to water today.

like they are gonna let a little rain get in the way of them breaking water restrictions

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 3659]

 

Not a fucking drop here. Congrats @NorthLoop et al.

Edited September 16, 2023 by Wilcox Cummingtonite

[Anastasis 23718]

Blue skies and sun popping through a smear of clouds on the back end of this. 

[NorthLoop 14508]

17 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

 

Not a fucking drop here. Congrats @NorthLoop et al.

Parted like the fucking red sea

[Armybrat 41429]

Had another 1”  with that last round.

[Guest]

2.5" overall. I'll take it. Wish we could have gotten some more for our neighbors down south. That's frustrating.

[Hate 20250]

it's dumping in The Woodlands now.  We will probably end up with over 5 inches of rain from this 3 day event!  Hell yes!

[Grade of D as in David 13255]

This is the best weather day in the last six months easy 

Edited September 16, 2023 by Grade of D as in David
Get the fuck outside

[Born to Run 6601]

Yard is so moist, since it's that kinda party, imma stick my dick in the flower bed.

[Armybrat 41429]

1 hour ago, Born to Run said:

Yard is so moist, since it's that kinda party, imma stick my dick in the flower bed.

Mind the Venus Flytraps.

[texasdago 7772]

7 hours ago, Grade of D as in David said:

This is the best weather day in the last six months easy 

Weather in Austin felt fantastic today. More plz 

[Larry T. Spider 1747]

Is this the appropriate thread to mention that Lake Travis is down over 3.5 feet in the last month? The recent rains provided us with a brief reprieve from the drops but did not increase the water level at all. 

[atomheartbevo 90665]

4 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Is this the appropriate thread to mention that Lake Travis is down over 3.5 feet in the last month? The recent rains provided us with a brief reprieve from the drops but did not increase the water level at all. 

Hey, it's almost to 40% of its full volume!

https://isthelakefullyet.com/#volume

[HiggyBaby 2620]

Is this the appropriate thread to mention that Lake Travis is down over 3.5 feet in the last month? The recent rains provided us with a brief reprieve from the drops but did not increase the water level at all. 

Developers are purportedly already eyeing the sometimes islands for a new Carlos and Charlie’s

[YGIFS 19458]

I completely forgot we used to have one of those.  

Starting tomorrow, several days in a row at 100* on the dot with the heat index.  And not a drop of rain.  Really glad we got so much late last week, it's gonna have to last us another hot spell or two. 

[utee94 16091]

3 hours ago, YGIFS said:

I completely forgot we used to have one of those.  

Starting tomorrow, several days in a row at 100* on the dot with the heat index.  And not a drop of rain.  Really glad we got so much late last week, it's gonna have to last us another hot spell or two. 

Who's this "we?"  Some folks in Austin got a lot, some got almost none.  

[YGIFS 19458]

Sorry, we got lucky for once in our little neck of the woods.  Between Tue-Sat of last week, almost 3".  We missed out on most of the other (extremely intermittent and rare) rains some other patches of Austin got earlier this month and that 48 hour window back in August.  We got a lotta days in the mid to high 90's with no rain in sight to close out this weekend, for all of Austin.  It may feel better out to us, but the trees are still looking really fucking rough.  I have to put in a call to CoA to get some distressed oaks about 20-25' up before they fall into the powerlines.  And have to queue up now since it'll take 'em that long to get to me before the first freeze.  

You want 3 linear miles of those plastic divider things between the vehicular lanes and the bike lane?  City can do that overnight.  Want cracked tree limbs to ice over and fall over and over again onto power lines?  Best we can do is 2025.  

[dcar00 14993]

5 hours ago, HiggyBaby said:

Developers are purportedly already eyeing the sometimes islands for a new Carlos and Charlie’s

maybe we can build that dam bridge over Lake Travis we have been needing for 50 years.

[Gatorubet 30770]

The middle graph is precipitation in New Orleans this past August. The top blue line is the average rainfall in New Orleans in August - somewhere between 4 and 5 inches generally. it always rains a lot in the summer in New Orleans, with thunderstorms, almost every freaking day.

The bottom blue line is what we actually received.  So far, September is worse than August.

[InkaUtexas 26936]

Yep, and no tropical systems. 

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 3659]

Rains in fuckin’ Oklahoma almost every day

[Hate 20250]

The middle graph is precipitation in New Orleans this past August. The top blue line is the average rainfall in New Orleans in August - somewhere between 4 and 5 inches generally. it always rains a lot in the summer in New Orleans, with thunderstorms, almost every freaking day.
The bottom blue line is what we actually received.  So far, September is worse than August.

You can blame me for last week. I brought the drought with me. Sorry about that.

[utee94 16091]

I was there for a few days in June, had some lovely rainshowers.  But that was The Before Time, in the Long Long Ago.

[Grade of D as in David 13255]

On 9/18/2023 at 11:47 AM, YGIFS said:

Sorry, we got lucky for once in our little neck of the woods.  Between Tue-Sat of last week, almost 3".  We missed out on most of the other (extremely intermittent and rare) rains some other patches of Austin got earlier this month and that 48 hour window back in August.  We got a lotta days in the mid to high 90's with no rain in sight to close out this weekend, for all of Austin.  It may feel better out to us, but the trees are still looking really fucking rough.  I have to put in a call to CoA to get some distressed oaks about 20-25' up before they fall into the powerlines.  And have to queue up now since it'll take 'em that long to get to me before the first freeze.  

You want 3 linear miles of those plastic divider things between the vehicular lanes and the bike lane?  City can do that overnight.  Want cracked tree limbs to ice over and fall over and over again onto power lines?  Best we can do is 2025.  

Tell the COA the limbs might fall in the bike lane.

[Gatorubet 30770]

if we somehow manage to get a late hurricane or tropical storm, every tree in this fucking city is gonna fall down

[MissingInAction 25568]

If we get iced over this winter Austin will cease to exist.

[Orange&White 5573]

42 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

If we get iced over this winter Austin will cease to exist.

You seem to have forgotten that we have a fucking DISASTER SCIENTIST on the Council and ready to act. Nothing to worry about.

[utee94 16091]

6 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

You seem to have forgotten that we have a fucking DISASTER SCIENTIST on the Council and ready to act. Nothing to worry about.

Sadly she's proven to be one of the smartest and most capable members of the city council.  Low bar, obviously.

[MissingInAction 25568]

16 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

You seem to have forgotten that we have a fucking DISASTER SCIENTIST on the Council and ready to act. Nothing to worry about.

[Biff Tannen 46195]

Crickets are out after the rain baby!  And my back door closes without hitting the door frame again.  Really need this round on Monday to be a good soaking.  

[Trey3216 15452]

38 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Crickets are out after the rain baby!  And my back door closes without hitting the door frame again.  Really need this round on Monday to be a good soaking.