Cloudy, drizzly day at the rancho. After a week of rain, LCRA’s Bob Rose is expecting still more:
"The pattern so far this spring has been nothing short of amazing, with a parade of storm systems marching from southern California to Texas, with almost every one producing rain and thunderstorms over parts of Texas."
May is normally our wettest month. If it keeps raining, we could have big floods by June.
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Mr. Boy got the game ball after his Muckdogs beat the Mudcats 15 to 12. He was pleased, of course. The coach said it was for his good hitting, all three big ones. The Muckdogs are now 3-1 for the Little League season.
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.
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Forecast for tomorrow morning’s 30th annual Capitol 10K is cloudy, mid-60s and very humid with spotty showers. Courtesy of LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose who will be running his 18th race. I’ve managed to not run in every one of them, since their inception in 1977, though I have observed many a finish line. This year I believe I’ll vacuum fallen live oak leaves while Mom takes Number One Son to his tennis lessons.
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Mr. B. expects his Muckdogs will lose this afternoon against the Redwings, because the Redwings include a few of his better friends from first grade, and last year’s Rangers’ team, who were/are good players. Looks to me to depend on the hits. None of the little league teams have much defense. So the big-hitting squads will win. Plus, the Redwings don’t have the two secret weapons the Mets had in the Muckdogs’ loss on Wednesday: two pink batting-helmet girls who could hit farther than any of the boys and were pretty good at fielding, too. Game’s at 2:30 pm.
UPDATE Muckdogs pulled it out, 13 to 12, despite better fielding by the Redwings. Mr. B had one run on three hits. He was stranded once and tagged out at third. But he fielded well.
Mr. B. got his baseball team assignment via email this morning: the Muckdogs. Strange name. A farm club in upstate New York for the St. Louis Cardinals, actually. So why for Little League in Texas? Beats me. Worse thing is he/we don’t know any of the other boys on the team. But he’s happy."I always wanted to be a Muckdog," he said. "They’re the best." Just shows how much I know.
The live oak branches that were embracing the roof have shed their ice and risen five feet off the shingles. Yippee. Things are getting back to normal at the rancho, with the temperature rising through 40 degrees this morning. Mr. B. is back to school and Mom back to work, and I have the laundry to do before I can get back to working on something I want to do. Going to be busy at the nurseries in another month or so, replacing some of the ornamentals killed by the ice. One cactus I have yet to identify was weighed down by ice and then broke off in the middle. But most of the perennials will come back from the roots. Not sure about the antique roses. They were weakened by the deer eating all their leaves before the fence was fixed, then the ice storm hit and their bare branches were encased in ice. Wait and see.
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THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 