Texas rains, don't this beat all

Bird · Jun 27, 2007

Yep, Jack, we just thought we were getting lots of rain up here in north Texas; slighly less than a half inch today and only about 14.17" for the month of June; nothing like those poor folks in the hill country northwest of Austin.

txdon · Jun 27, 2007

The Lower Colorado River Authority reported that Tuesday night Marble Falls got hit with a once every 500 year rainfall. 19". The forecast for Central Texas is rain every day through July 13th. We just had 1.5" this evening in one hour. Mike it looked like your place, over the hills, again got more rain than us.

billbill1 · Jun 28, 2007

I read in the paper yesterday that Chicago got 3" to 4" in a 45 minute period. That's one of Bird's "frog stranglers"!!!

mikim · Jun 28, 2007

Mike it looked like your place, over the hills, again got more rain than us...Musta got in and got out just in time .... hauled another load of stuff from Angleton up to the barn yesterday. Started at 0700 loading the trailer, got home about 1800, only a slight shower on the way up .... had a blow out on the way home.....I'm afraid my forecasters have been catching a great deal of grief lately ..... just can't seem to get it right. Sure wish el nino would come back. Don't like these lows sitting on us like this one is doing. Particularly during hurricane season.

wroughtn_harv · Jun 30, 2007

Lake Lavon is about five feet high right now. Early this year is was seventeen feet down. It's not a big lake, twenty two thousand acres, but what was pasture last year is bass land now.

What is interesting to me is we don't hear too much complaining about the rain. After going through the drought everyone seems to be too gratefull to complain much.

Bird · Jun 30, 2007

Harvey, did you read the Dallas Morning News this morning? Every lake in the area is so high that boaters may be running into partially submerged grills, picnic tables, and pavillions. Many boat ramps are closed, piers are under water, etc. One of my brothers in the Waco area sent an e-mail this morning that mentioned the lakes down there being in the same shape.

But we saw some sunshine yesterday for several hours.

My daily rain didn't arrive until 5:30 p.m. and I only got about a third of an inch. Of course the thunder and lightning display woke me about 3 a.m. this morning, and when I went out at 7 a.m., I poured another inch and a tenth out of the gauge.

EddieWalker · Jun 30, 2007

We watch the Dopler Radar almost constantly. It's become the first page we open on the computer and is always up in it's own screen. You guys in the DFW area seem to be where these storms generate most of the time. We get them from the gulf the the rest of the time, but those storms are just water dumpers. The storms that come from DFW seem to have the high winds, lightning and thunder with them. Some of those fronts are like a solid wall headed right for us!!! It's really impressive to see them form and then head our way. Luckily, by the time they get here, they usually split in half and go around us, disapear or weaken. One day they were reporting gusts of over 100 miles per hour, but by the time it hit us, the winds were only 40mph.

So far we've been dry for the last four days. I'm gonna do some mowing today!!!!!

Eddie

Bird · Jun 30, 2007

Up until 5:30 yesterday evening, I had high hopes for getting some mowing done today myself.

rox · Jun 30, 2007

Bird,
What kind of crops are raised in your area? how do you think the rain is affecting them. Actually you probably have ideal "rice" weather don't you?

Bird · Jun 30, 2007

rox said:
Bird,
What kind of crops are raised in your area? how do you think the rain is affecting them. Actually you probably have ideal "rice" weather don't you?

Rox, I really haven't kept up with such information very well at all the last few years, but . . . yes. rice should have done well this year, but not normally so I don't know of any being raised in this area. I think some is grown much closer to the south Texas coast.

In this immediate area, horse ranches are one of the biggest things going, of course beef cattle, and there are some Holstein dairies. There's quite a number of goats and a few sheep in the area, althought most of them in Texas are farther southwest of here. I know there's some cotton, corn, wheat, oats, grain sorghum, milo, and a lot of hay raised around here. There are also some pecan orchards, although the bigger ones that I know of are 60-70 miles south of Dallas.

I've no doubt some of the farmers are hurting because they can't get into the fields to cultivate, to cut hay, etc.