2024 Rain Thread: All Your El Nino Are Belong to Us

[CleverNickname 1281]

western Mills County and the Pecan Bayou keeps getting hammered. Hopefully more streamflow to Lake Buchanon. 

[HiggyBaby 2495]

This cluster bringing it hard , has to be good for some kind of runoff yeah?

Edited May 22 by HiggyBaby

[texasdago 7407]

48 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

KXAN "future radar" suggesting rain will hit Austin ~ 8 PM.  Good luck with that.

Some doofus in Leander might get a couple of drops 

[CleverNickname 1281]

the Colorado river basin doesn't go but a few miles east of 183. So it's already now halfway Lampasas / Brazos. But it will take some time for the creeks to run on down past the gauge in Bend. I was up in Mullin last night and it was all very green and moist. Should be good for a lot of runoff.

[atomheartbevo 89015]

2 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

After 138 hours, my street finally has power. 

[0xdeadbeef 1614]

15 minutes ago, HiggyBaby said:

This cluster bringing it hard , has to be good for some kind of runoff yeah?

I don't think I've ever seen a storm with that many sustained lightning strikes. 

Waco is about to get some Electroshock Therapy. 

[Larry T. Spider 1740]

24 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

I don't think I've ever seen a storm with that many sustained lightning strikes. 

Waco is about to get some Electroshock Therapy. 

They need it.

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13483]

Several down trees and big limbs partially in the lanes of 281 between Evant and Lampasas. The creeks and ditches are flowing. 

[NorthLoop 13950]

Big hook echo headed towards Cameron.

 

[Trey3216 15308]

We just got about 2-2.5 inches of rain in 40 minutes.   Lot of lightning.   Lotttttttttta rain.  

[Post Oak 20107]

Yep. We are at 2 inches in about an hour.  Luckily, no rough stuff

[Armybrat 40544]

Happy hour this afternoon out on the deck at Roaring Fork in North Austin was pleasant with a good breeze even though it was 90.

 

 

[Pescado_Rojo 19261]

2 hours ago, texasdago said:

Some doofus in Leander might get a couple of drops 

Confirmed. But I’m technically in Georgetown

[Trey3216 15308]

So I was estimating earlier just by how hard it was raining, but the nearest wunderground station is showing 3 inches in right at an hour.   Every little creek around here is a damn river right now.   Apparently traffic on I-35 had to completely stop because it was raining too hard to see the car in front of you

[jimmyjazz 45192]

So far rain in Austin proper by 8 PM is . . . not happening.

[InkaUtexas 24932]

1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

So far rain in Austin proper by 8 PM is . . . not happening.

You jinxed us....

[Hmbre97 6255]

8 hours ago, HiggyBaby said:

This cluster bringing it hard , has to be good for some kind of runoff yeah?

This cell wound up spitting out a tornado in Temple

[jofus 2265]

Video of the tornado in temple

[jofus 2265]

Temple got blasted

[texasdago 7407]

Reminder, never live north of Travis County.

[GreenspointTexas 9385]

Friend in Temple got her place rocked. Knocked out windows, downed trees, bent fence

 

 

wild

[Trey3216 15308]

1 hour ago, jofus said:

Temple got blasted

Yeah, we got pretty lucky in our area.  That cell was headed right for us, then began to get stronger and stronger and veered SE (as is typical) right as it was hitting the McLennan/Bell county lines.   We got lucky with the 3 inches of rain in 40 minutes.  

[Storm the Field 5255]

Ahh, it's going to be one of THOSE Summers. Extended searing heat and humidity punctuated by quick-moving, violent storms and the occasional tornado.

Roofers, Fence Guys, Electricians:

 

[jimmyjazz 45192]

Dang, that damage in Temple is bad.  Any injuries?

This has to be the most active spring in years when it comes to severe storms.

[texasdago 7407]

If we can just get these storms to take a little chill pill and focus on dumping 2" at a time here and there, that would be great. 

[InkaUtexas 24932]

Man, Temple.... That is rough.

However, @NorthLoop and me would take some of that rain. You can keep the wind.

[Hornius Emeritus 12332]

 

 

 

[hornian 5159]

3 hours ago, jofus said:

Temple got blasted

Jesus. 

Do not want. Ever. 

[MissingInAction 24416]

Is there such a thing as Cat 6?

If not, there will be.

[UTexasFight 9298]

Not looking forward to my homeowner’s policy renewal in August 

Edited May 23 by UTexasFight

[Hate 20059]

Lake Buchanan wins again today!!

 

 

[ftf82 481]

We drove over the Inks lake bridge on 29 in December of 1991. Buchanan had almost all of their gates open. The bridge was literally shaking. Let's do that again.

[Etexhorn13 3015]

 

SIAP but just saw this last night. This is right between CenterPoint Tower and Wells Fargo. 500 windows knocked out of CenterPoint tower 

 

 

[HenryJames 65525]

10 hours ago, jofus said:

 

 

Video of the tornado in temple

 

Footage recorded by Nathan and Nicole Cross.

Were they both holding the phone?

[Deej 76197]

1 minute ago, ftf82 said:

We drove over the Inks lake bridge on 29 in December of 1991. Buchanan had almost all of their gates open. The bridge was literally shaking. Let's do that again.

They've built a new bridge since then. 

[HenryJames 65525]

7 minutes ago, Deej said:

They've built a new bridge since then. 

Also I don't remember driving over the bridge with @ftf82 on 12/29/1991.

[Mother mopar 3275]

Is there such a thing as Cat 6?
If not, there will be.

There's discussions of updating the Safran-Simpson scale because hurricanes have intensified so much. 100-year storms are now common place, it seems

[ftf82 481]

2 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Also I don't remember driving over the bridge with @ftf82 on 12/29/1991.

We did. And then stopped at Storms in Burnet for a burger!

[Hate 20059]

17 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Footage recorded by Nathan and Nicole Cross.

Were they both holding the phone?

Yeah, she was recording vertically. Clearly he grabbed the phone and tried, but he would have had to start a new video. 

[jimmyjazz 45192]

That dude backing up almost killed someone.

[GreenspointTexas 9385]

1 hour ago, Etexhorn13 said:

 

SIAP but just saw this last night. This is right between CenterPoint Tower and Wells Fargo. 500 windows knocked out of CenterPoint tower 

 

 

Crazy because its only 6:20pm and completely light outside

[Post Oak 20107]

Welp tornado warning just issued and siren going off in Hewitt.  Wonderful

 

[Trey3216 15308]

Another 1.5 inches of rain today.  I’m gonna have to go buy about 2 yards of topsoil and use those roll seed things to get grass to grow in my backyard.     

[texasdago 7407]

12 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

Another 1.5 inches of rain today.  I’m gonna have to go buy about 2 yards of topsoil and use those roll seed things to get grass to grow in my backyard.     

Meanwhile the rest of us

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11536]

hydromet above 10k at buchanan.

 

 

[HiggyBaby 2495]

 

Dp

Edited May 24 by HiggyBaby

[HiggyBaby 2495]

On 5/23/2024 at 12:53 AM, jofus said:

 

 

Video of the tornado in temple

 

[Hate 20059]

It’s amazing how fast the soil in the Hill Country dries out. It’s not very deep so it makes sense, but these areas have had quite a bit of rain over the last couple of weeks. The good news is that Lake Buchanan keeps on getting lucky with rain falling in the perfect spot every few days. I was there the first weekend in May. It’s up over 11 feet since then and should get another foot or two over the next couple of days.

 

 

 

[tx 3 putt 75472]

Since the May 16 storm, CenterPoint says it has: 
Replaced more than 800 miles of electrical wires, which is farther than the distance from Houston to El Paso.
Replaced more than 700 transformers & approx. 2,000 poles
Restored nearly 900,000 customers as of noon, 5/23

[gofuckyourself 8063]

On 5/23/2024 at 1:32 PM, Etexhorn13 said:

 

SIAP but just saw this last night. This is right between CenterPoint Tower and Wells Fargo. 500 windows knocked out of CenterPoint tower 

 

 

Where did that person far right by the black SUV come from at like :30?

They just appear like they were dropped in from Kansas.

Then the Cadillac backs into them.

Rough day.