Rain cometh

[Bird]

Mike, you guys might be a little more accurate than I am./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif I look at the radar frequently at weather.com and also at accuweather; I'll have to try your site.

Bird

 

[mikim]

ACCUWEATHER !! BLASPHEMER !! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif (They'd like to take over our operation ya know)
I just went there myself since I haven't looked at it for awhile and darned if they haven't updated the homepage since I was there last - you can go to any weather service office in the country from there. The other regions probably have it set up the same way. I also just went out to check my rain gauge since it has let up a good bit - over 9" since Monday and 4 of it since 5 o'clock this evening. --- about an inch per hr -- pretty typical tropical rain for the area. Lost power for the first time in 8 years for about 30 minutes this evening. Can't wait to retire and get out of this gulf basin. I'm afraid if the tropical rain don't git me the acid rain will (Chemical plants abound here ya know) shoulda made that site a link in previous - never have - here's tryin' http://www.srh.noaa.gov
mike

 

[Bird]

Mike, thanks for the url; I checked it last night and again this morning. I like that. I've not been too impressed with Accuweather myself. Weather.com (and noaa) sure have better looking maps for their radar. Weather.com even shows the lake across the road. And it seems for some reason or other, rain clouds tend to split and go around this area. Lots more rain both north and south of us./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Bird

 

[RJohnson]

ERNIEB,
I see that you are close to San Antontio, saw the live rescue on the new last night. I hope you are not getting that much water where you are. The weather map I look at shows more rain this morning for your area http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USLocalWide.asp?loc=kaus&seg=LocalWeather&prodgrp=RadarImagery&product=Radar&prodnav=none. This gives me a good view of the eastern half of Texas.

Bird,

When I want to look at a close up of your lake area I use http://wfaa.com/wfaa/weather/bigradar1.html. I think you have to register but it is a one time deal.


Stay dry guys it looks like the weather is going to be with us through the holiday weekend but more important, BE SAFE/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif!

Randy

 

[Bird]

Yeah, Randy, you don't actually have to register; you can skip that. They just want you to register so they can send more advertising material./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif Their map certainly looks a lot better than the nbc map.

Bird

 

[ERNIEB]

Well, yea I did get that much yesterday. Like I said I have about 3 gulleys 10 to 12 inches deep and about 12 to 14 inches wide going across my driveway. I did have the thing crowned with ditches on both sides. In 98 we had a 100 year flood and my driveway didn't wash like that.
As far as the live rescue goes. Last year I had a post about these low water crossings. It happens everytime we get a big rain. There are depth markers at most of these crossings, and the various depts get up barricades ASAP. The radio and TV stations beg people not to try to cross these things. there are stiff fines for going around barricades, and even stiffer fines for moving barricades. THe SA fire dept. has started charging people $400.00 per person to pluck them out.And still these IDIOTS try to cross I just don't know what else they can do to stop them. A couple of radio talk shows have been humiliating the guy who was driving the car calling him all kind of names/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif


Ernie

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>And still these IDIOTS try to cross</font color=blue>/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Ernie, when I was a rookie cop, one night we had flooding in Dallas and with a major 6 lane thoroughfare under water, I had just stopped my squad car facing into traffic in the center lane of the 3 northbound lanes; headlights and roof mounted red lights on, blinking the headlights to stop traffic, etc. and one fool came sailing through, went around the squad car, down to the water's edge, got stopped, made a U-turn, came back, pulled up beside me, rolled down his window, and said, "Officer, did you know the road's under water down there?"/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[RJohnson]

ERNIEB,
The rain cometh and cometh and cometh. It has been raining steady all day here in Dallas. I want to know when it goeth/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif so I can enjoy the three day weekend./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Randy

 

[Bird]

And I only got .2" all day, while the TV news is showing the flooding north of us.


Bird

 

[Harv]

Out here in the somtimes too sunny California, we've had a mild winter and a warm summer, and the beginning of rainy season is still a month away. /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif

As long as we don't run out of water altogether (which does happen sometimes), I have no complaints. That is, I have no complaints until I go up to the property and see our pond. Ponds are supposed to be wet, aren't they? /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Attached are two pictures of the pond, the top one taken last Thanksgiving and the bottom one taken yesterday (9/1/01). The good side is that this opens up opportunities to clean out debris and such. Heck, if it gets any lower, I plan to bring in a 'dozer and shore up the dam.