Texas Spring/Summer Thread

jyoutz · May 21, 2022

bindian said:
Well then. Ok. Y'all never come to mind because it is almost a two ride from here. Got cousins in OK, so they are open season. Yankees, well, they can stay up there. Never really met a New Mexican. Well, except for McCloud from Taos.
hugs, Brandi

In full spirit of the title of this thread, spring in central Texas is beautiful and we often visit our son in Austin there to get away from our spring windy weather. I like our weather in summer through winter, but spring is awful here with the winds.

WM75Guy · May 21, 2022

Looks like the rain we were promised is going around us.

bindian · May 21, 2022

SirReal63 said:
I was a member of the Cloudcroft FB group for years. They did a survey of the members and I believe it was 86% of them moved there full time from Texas. It would be very amusing to me to see just how many people living statewide in NM came there from Texas.

I was talking about the TV show. McCloud, starring Dennis Weaver. Only personality I ever knew from NM.
hugs, Brandi

bindian · May 21, 2022

jyoutz said:
In full spirit of the title of this thread, spring in central Texas is beautiful and we often visit our son in Austin there to get away from our spring windy weather. I like our weather in summer through winter, but spring is awful here with the winds.

Austin was alright a few years ago. My daughter lived there since 2003, when she entered UT. I was going to retire in the Hill Country, until she said she was moving back home.
She moved back here last August, working from home for the state. Now, Austin is becoming a gutter like San Francisco.
hugs, Brandi

bindian · May 21, 2022

WM75Guy said:
Looks like the rain we were promised is going around us.

Randy,
I hope not. Weather.com says we can get it after 11pm. I'll be happy with just enough rain to kill the dust. Then the pond will go down enough to mow at the high water level. We are supposed to get 2-4 inches between now and Thursday.
hugs, Brandi

jyoutz · May 21, 2022

bindian said:
Austin was alright a few years ago. My daughter lived there since 2003, when she entered UT. I was going to retire in the Hill Country, until she said she was moving back home.
She moved back here last August, working from home for the state. Now, Austin is becoming a gutter like San Francisco.
hugs, Brandi

Austin is too big for me, but there are some nice hill country towns nearby and areas to the east like Bastrop.

bindian · May 22, 2022

We got clobbered with a major thunderstorm dumping over 4 inches of rain. Power went out for about 6 hours. My neighbor doesn't fed her horses good enough and they crib on tree bark, killing the tree. Then they fall on the hilines. It happens so often, the electric guys that do storm damage repair know right where to go when out area's lights go out.

But I slept nicely with cool air inside and the Kolher humming quietly outside.
hugs, Brandi

Torvy · May 22, 2022

The front that came through didn't leave much rain,yet, in the metroplex, but Temps dripped about 20 degrees. Highs in 70s for the work week!

jyoutz · May 22, 2022

Torvy said:
The front that came through didn't leave much rain,yet, in the metroplex, but Temps dripped about 20 degrees. Highs in 70s for the work week!

At least you received some rain. Where I’m at, we just have cold temperatures and wind. It was jacket weather again today.

bindian · May 22, 2022

jyoutz said:
At least you received some rain. Where I’m at, we just have cold temperatures and wind. It was jacket weather again today.

Jacket weather is nice. That there allows you to wear the same clothes all day and not change soaked clothes out 2 or 3 times aday. I'd take that anyday.
hugs, Brandi

jyoutz · May 23, 2022

bindian said:
Jacket weather is nice. That there allows you to wear the same clothes all day and not change soaked clothes out 2 or 3 times aday. I'd take that anyday.
hugs, Brandi

True, but by mid May we’re kinda tired of cold and want some warm weather. At the elevation I live at, the weather typically gets hot after memorial day weekend, but is changeable before then.

bindian · May 23, 2022

jyoutz said:
True, but by mid May we’re kinda tired of cold and want some warm weather. At the elevation I live at, the weather typically gets hot after memorial day weekend, but is changeable before then.

Heck, not us. After the temps. we had in May so far...............I am already looking forward to the first cold, eh... cool front arriving.
hugs, Brandi

bindian · May 23, 2022

Had a new sawmill customer come out last week. They just moved from Washington state down to Bryan. He commented about the humidity and I said this is nothing. Wait until July, Aug, and Sept.
I am used to it, but each year it seems it drags me down more and more.
hugs, Brandi

jyoutz · May 23, 2022

bindian said:
Had a new sawmill customer come out last week. They just moved from Washington state down to Bryan. He commented about the humidity and I said this is nothing. Wait until July, Aug, and Sept.
I am used to it, but each year it seems it drags me down more and more.
hugs, Brandi

You must be in deep east Texas? I have a son in Baton Rouge, so I know what you are talking about with humidity.

bindian · May 23, 2022

jyoutz said:
You must be in deep east Texas? I have a son in Baton Rouge, so I know what you are talking about with humidity.

Nope. Just East Texas. An hour north of Houston. In the SYP forests.
hugs, Brandi

fiddlearound · May 23, 2022

Dang, Brandi, we only got 1/4 inch when our little thunderpopper came through.
Glad to get it cause that's all we've had for six weeks.
Glad you got such a nice rain.

Bird · May 23, 2022

fiddlearound said:
Dang, Brandi, we only got 1/4 inch when our little thunderpopper came through.
Glad to get it cause that's all we've had for six weeks.
Glad you got such a nice rain.

NWS shows Denton got .01", but here 10 miles south of the airport, my gauge got .02", but sure nothing like some of your got.

Of course rain is forecast for tomorrow.

bindian · May 23, 2022

fiddlearound said:
Dang, Brandi, we only got 1/4 inch when our little thunderpopper came through.
Glad to get it cause that's all we've had for six weeks.
Glad you got such a nice rain.

I checked our smaller rain gauge today and it confirmed the bigger one. Right around 4.12 inches. More rain scheduled for tonight/Tuesday and Wed.
The thunderbumper was shaking the walls of the house.
We didn't need much rain. Our area is not in the drought zone. We just needed enough to water the grass and keep the dust on the roads and not above them. Not a gully washer that almost washed the garden away.

Where are Y'all located?

hugs, Brandi

two_bit_score · May 23, 2022

Larry Caldwell said:
Not clickbait. That was from a friend who lives in South Texas. She's less than pleased at the mess the energy utilities have made of that state. They have sucked up all your money and left you with a junk electrical system that works fine until you need it.

Your friend is falling for very incorrect Information. We have some media here who want to blame the Governor every time a light blinks somewhere in Texas. Six generators did go down and were quickly replaced. It affected very few people. Routine basically.

Your post really appears to be a trolling attempt in the Texas thread. It makes you look pretty bad. Your fake tears are not impressive.

two_bit_score · May 23, 2022

jyoutz said:
It’s interesting that the natural gas plants and wind generators go out in Texas when it gets cold. My son in Austin was out of power for 10 days. Meanwhile the natural gas and wind farms keep working in adjacent New Mexico and Oklahoma, both of which get colder weather than Texas.

It’s said that the full cost of weatherization of an individual well is $500,000. I don’t want to pay the increased costs of power for that when it’s such a rare event that power is out for extended times.

The weatherization can be done strategically and over time to work it in.

Wind turbines froze up during the last freeze. They were the most unreliable at that time.