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Turn around, don’t drown

Posted on June 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Turn around, don’t drown

With big storms moving in from the north, and some places out near the lakes picking up 3 inches or more, according to the LCRA’s automated guages, it seems timely to repeat the weather service slogan for low-water crossers, and to pass along this great site’s complete approach to Texas floods. For the rare reader who might benefit. I realize this isn’t radio, but it’s tempting to treat it that way sometimes. It’s not hard to get excited. We live in the most flash-flood prone part of North America.

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The waves

Posted on May 27, 2007 | Comments Off on The waves

The waves of rain some meteorologists predicted seem to have made their appearance on KVUE’s Web radar, with showers at the rancho for the first time all day. But the forecast rain totals were revised downward from as much as 10 inches to as little as 2 to 4 inches. That’s good because Lake Travis is more than full for the first time in two years. The Lower Colorado River Authority has opened the floodgates at Mansfield Dam. It’s been a wild three months as the lake has come back from the drought of 05-06. Any great additional rain now in the lake’s watershed could start flooding homes out there on the shoreline. Looks like the Turnback Canyon race is going to get wet tonight. They’re probably asleep. They have to get up later this morning to retrace the whole 19 miles they came today.

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Another tornado watch

Posted on May 2, 2007 | Comments Off on Another tornado watch

This time until 1 a.m. Radar shows big line of super cells moving in from the west, but slow enough that they may not arrive shortly before midnight.LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose concludes:

"A Flash Flood watch has been posted for the Hill Country and Central Texas regions through Thursday morning. Rain amounts between now and midday Thursday should average between 1 and 2 inches, with isolated totals of 3 to 4 inches possible. Since the ground is still wet from recent rains, the potential for flash flooding is high."

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Delayed floods

Posted on March 26, 2007 | Comments Off on Delayed floods

Awoke to find it had not rained overnight at all at the rancho, nor much of anywhere else around the Austin area. Big areas of storms still on the radar but still west of the Hill Country. Forecasts, however, bring it all in here by mid-day, just in time for Mr. Boy’s pickup from school, with rainfall rates of 1 to 4 inches an hour. So it’s too early to accuse the meteorologists of crying wolf.

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