Here comes the RAIN !!!

[Bird]

Jim, in spite of the wind last night, I only got about an inch and a third of rain myself. And I awoke to thunder and lightning this morning before 3 a.m. and still have it now, but as you said, it's going just south of us. I emptied my rain gauge last night before going to bed and it now has maybe .05" in it.

The TV news says 145,000 without power so once again I'd say we were very lucky. And the neighbor's car that was hit by just the top of that tree doesn't show any damage at all.

Since I don't have a chainsaw anymore, I use the Makita reciprocating saw with a pruning blade, so I'll wait for dry weather to cut up that tree and haul it off.

 

[The Dougster]

I agree with WeldingIsFun... sure could use a good hard rain... My brand new stock tank (Lampasas Co.) that I spent my last kajillion dollars on is bone dry and has been that way since January... Prolly have to wait for a hurricane now <sigh>

 

[EddieWalker]

Sorry to hear about you guys not getting any rain. We went about two weeks with only one storm of about a tenth of an inch. I was getting worried about my pasture that I had just planted, and if my baby grass would survive. Last night was dead on an inch and this mornings storm is at a tenth of an inch so for with severe thunder storm warning in effect. From the look of the radar, if it hits Tyler, which is where it's going right now, I should get enough to have my ponds overflowing again.

We were glued to the TV last night to see what the weather was doing and how bad it was. Then when it passed, every single station, and we were bouncing around all of them, said that there was no more chances of rain until tonight. Not a single prediction anywhere of this mornings rain and severe storms that are on the way. Since I work outdoors on some jobs, like the fence that I'm building right now, the weather forecast is important to me. I have a list of rainy day jobs for other clients to keep busy, but my point is that they just don't have a clue what is going on in the weather unless it's already happening someplace and they can follow it.

It is what it is. LOL

Eddie

 

[Bird]

It's some weird weather alright. I was glad for the clouds covering the sun while I was cutting up the downed tree. With my wife's help, we had it done before 11 a.m. and stacked in the driveway, as you can see in the picture. And we've gotten less than a tenth of an inch of rain since last night. However, I just got off the phone with an old friend in Oak Cliff (SW part of Dallas) and he said he's gotten 8" so far and it's still raining. Apparently there's lots of flooding in Dallas and Tarrant counties.

 

[EddieWalker]

Bird,

Nice burn piles. They might be a little close together to only burn one at at time, but maybe with the wet weather, you can get away with it. I'd have spread them out a little more. Maybe one in the street and the other out in one of those miniature pastures. That way you could light all three at the same time and not have to worry about them spreading out to those funnly looking barns.

Eddie

 

[Bignoles]

Eddie, I work in East Dallas. If you get the storms that just went thru here your tanks will be full for sure! It rained on my way to work @ 6:30 and didn't stop raining HARD until about an hour ago. 8" is believable for what we have been getting. Hopefully my tanks at the house are full again, cracks in the ground are gone, and you can have the rest (although you might have to share)

 

[Bird]

Nice burn piles.

Yeah, but unfortunately, I'm living back in town. When it gets a little drier, I'll be piling them on my little Ford Ranger to go to Waste Management's landfill.

 

[bgoodman]

6.44" of rain here in Mesquite in the last 24 hours.

1st picture is the road I take to work - electricity went out & it fills up in no time at all without the lift pumps keeping it dry.

2nd picture is the creek that carries the drainage out of our area - it's normally a trickle.

 

[Bignoles]

bgoodman - what road is that? It looks familiar. I work near lawnview & I-30

 

[bgoodman]

Peachtree Rd @ Clary Dr. - between Gross Rd & Military Pkwy.

 

[texasjohn]

Countless tornado watches, warnings, flood watches tonight... Big storms thru Georgetown, Round Rock, Austin, south of me, will be on news tomorrow I anticipate.

For me, .36 inches rain... thus we are at 9.1 for the year now...

 

[jinman]

Well, I noticed a big blob of red and pink on the radar going over Lampasas yesterday, so I expect to hear from Dougster that they got a good shower.

 

[jinman]

6.44" of rain here in Mesquite in the last 24 hours.

1st picture is the road I take to work - electricity went out & it fills up in no time at all without the lift pumps keeping it dry.

2nd picture is the creek that carries the drainage out of our area - it's normally a trickle.

What? Where are the cars? You can't have a good rainstorm in this area without some idiot driving out into the middle of it and having to be rescued. It seems that all I've seen on the news is people drowning their cars and pickups out in high water. Sheesh!

Oh yes. . . one other observation. I saw a woman on TV last night complaining about the power company and how inconvenienced she was by not having power (food in fridge and air conditioning). She acted like power was her God-given right and she was not going to give the power company any peace until she got power restored. On the same newscast they showed how the power company was working all their crews full-time to get trees cleared and power restored. I have very little sympathy for people who don't have a little tolerance during a crisis like this. I'm sure those power line workers are a little bit inconvenienced too.

 

[bgoodman]

What? Where are the cars? You can't have a good rainstorm in this area without some idiot driving out into the middle of it and having to be rescued. It seems that all I've seen on the news is people drowning their cars and pickups out in high water. Sheesh!

Oh yes. . . one other observation. I saw a woman on TV last night complaining about the power company and how inconvenienced she was by not having power (food in fridge and air conditioning). She acted like power was her God-given right and she was not going to give the power company any peace until she got power restored. On the same newscast they showed how the power company was working all their crews full-time to get trees cleared and power restored. I have very little sympathy for people who don't have a little tolerance during a crisis like this. I'm sure those power line workers are a little bit inconvenienced too.

Strangely enough, though it's not seen in the picture, the city used a dump-truck to block the road at either side. It's been a good 15 year since anyone has managed to submerge a car there when it floods. It took a good 4 hours for the pumps to dry it out.

 

[Bird]

I posted a picture yesterday of the 3 piles of brush I had after cutting up the tree that was downed by the storm day before yesterday. This morning, I hauled that to the Waste Management landfill in Lewisville. It took two big loads to do it. And along the way, I noticed lots of other brush, limbs, and trees down. Waste Management has a place for you to back up to one of 4 roll off dumpsters. There's usually plenty of space in those things for anything you want to dump. But I started early this morning, got there with the first load before 8 a.m., and all 4 of those dumpsters were full of brush already. By the time I got back with the second load, they weren't just full, but were piled up. I had to stand in the bed of my pickup to be able to reach high enough to pile my brush on one of the dumpsters. Two more pickup loads arrived while I was unloading. Then as I was leaving I saw a 16' trailer piled high with brush arriving; don't know how he was going to unload it though if Waste Management didn't get out there and change out some dumpsters.

And of course, things are still wet enough that after driving through the mud at Waste Management, my little Ranger had to have a wash job.

 

[The Dougster]

Yup... The Dougster and the storm hit Lampasas about the sametime late yesterday... VERY high winds, hail and heavy rain... I had 2-inches in the rain gauge ... Yippeeeeeeeeeee.... actually caught a few inches in my new stock tank but if I can rely on history, it will have all leaked out in a day or two... Never happy huh? lol

 

[Sigarms]

Pics taken two days ago. Driving home from work late, and it was the worst weather for rain I've seen since I lived here (5 years). I was at the point where I was worried. The pic was taken after the rain let down.

Lucky the house is on high ground. Talking to my neighbor, his grandparents lived by the light pole in the first picture in the late 1800's.

 

[czechsonofagun]

You could take some of our rain if you need more. I mean we have a storm a day, Tuesday it was hail and I was told fields are too wet to cut hay or plant corn. We had 16" of rain this year, it topped up the watershed, but it is really getting old.

 

[jinman]

I got another 0.6" of rain late last night as several storms bottle-necked between two high pressure caps, one over DFW and another over southern Oklahoma. I'm sure the folks just north of me along the Red River got even more. Bird, did the rain make it as far south as your house? I heard that Denton Co. was also in the "zone."

 

[Bird]

Jim, we saw a few clouds, but not a drop of water.