Category Archives: Weather/Climate

Not a good day to be a boat or floating-restaurant owner on the Brazos River, nor to live near any roaring creeks or impromptu lakes around Waco.

"Pouring rain and heavy winds are beating down on Tony Cain as he treads, fully-clothed, through the active Brazos River desperately trying to save his floating restaurant and banquet hall, the Brazos Belle."

Good work in this report from Waco Tribune Herald, with good video clips, though I have never been able to understand the appeal of present tense to young writers–incuding myself when I did it long ago. 

Austin has minor urban steet flooding, and the radar west and south of us is almost empty for the moment, but the worst appears yet to come. Dripping Springs has had almost 4 inches and Burnet County to the west has many flooded roads, Bob Rose says (not a permalink here, so I’ll fix later). And the flood watch continues until tomorrow morning. Email alert from Troy Kimmel that weather service expects the tornado threat to grow in the next few hours, some to us but particularly to our north where a small but hardy surface low is forming southwest of Fort Worth. One good thing, Lake Travis she will rise again.

UPDATE  The rains pretty much quit over the rancho before dark, and no tornadoes appeared anywhere nearby. And, by Saturday afternoon, Lake Travis had risen another five feet–at 665.3 she’s almost back to normal for this time of year.