Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[jinman]

The DishNetwork guy showed up to install my Hopper and two Joeys. He ended up changing out my antenna and a new switch box in my central box in the garage. He got all the stuff downloaded, the Joeys installed in my game room and bedroom. All of them allow HD DVR recording and multiple playback. The sky was very dark in the northwest as he left and 1/2 hour later we got a 13/100ths if an inch. As quickly as it appeared, it seemed to be gone. Now, it's 15 degrees cooler and the ground is damp. It's not what I wanted, but it sure is better than nothing.

 

[Western]

I ended with .36" , respectable amount I guess, but with all the wind,hail and rumbling you'd thought it was a typhoon.

 

[texasjohn]

aggggh, sunny now, no rain, stillish, numb hands from trigger operation scheduled so i could recover while ground wet....no luck!

 

[DieselnHooters]

been monitoring current temps steadily those last few months _the whole midwest has had nearly summer-like afternoon highs often tempered with some classic cold continental incursions, Texas has pretty much remained mild to nearly hot throughout looks like

I have always thought of theTexas climate as subtropical but lately it borders on straight tropical it seems?

 

[NativeSon]

The wind blew all day yesterday and it just sprinkled off & on through out the day. Then about 6 pm the wind started kicking up and blowing harder than I've seen in a long time. Then the bottom fell out and the lights started flickering as we were trying to get thru dinner. But we were lucky and kept the lights on all night. The Elec Co-op did a good job and at the high point only about 2600 outages and they had most of those back on by 9 pm.

I'll check the rain gauge and look around for wind damage when it gets light and see where we stand. Dead trees are dropping around here like crazy when there's no wind, so this could be ugly this morning.

Charlie

 

[texasjohn]

hope all your trees fell away from the fence. at least you got rain, we got none, the drought continues

 

[Western]

On the news last night they said the winds had blown off some roof, blew down some sheds and many power lines, all this somewhere East of where Bird lives If I recall (N and East of ft worth)

Gusting to 30mph here this morning, so it looks like putting up R panel is probably out. Shoot!

 

[Bird]

We got my wife to the doctor's office yesterday before the rain arrived, and we were getting a moderately heavy rain when we came out. But fortunately, I was parked right at the door. I think we saw 3 or 4 flashes of lightning, heard thunder, but only a light breeze and no hail; just a very welcome rain. But our total was just slightly less than a half inch.

 

[econometrics]

I need to head out to check the land this morning sometime. Seems like it was mostly rain and lightning around Tyler. My wife said it hailed a little bit when she was in S. Tyler shopping, and the wind blew pretty good, but I don't think we will have much damage. Who knows. Not sure how much rain we got either. I'll have to check the gauge later.

 

[Bird]

I need to head out to check the land this morning sometime.

I kind of wonder about the pastures, hay fields, and such. With the recent warm spell and then a little rain, the grass in my yard is greening up and growing.

 

[econometrics]

I kind of wonder about the pastures, hay fields, and such. With the recent warm spell and then a little rain, the grass in my yard is greening up and growing.

You're right, the bermuda is starting to green up in my pasture. Might be an early first cut this year!

 

[jinman]

My final total for the 'event' was 0.15" with a bit of lightning and one power drop that was only momentary. However, our power company makes sure we get plenty of practice resetting clocks. They don't want us to go for several weeks and forget how to do it.

 

[Western]

I kind of wonder about the pastures, hay fields, and such. With the recent warm spell and then a little rain, the grass in my yard is greening up and growing.

Bird, as it was last winter, 80% of my St Augustine is still green, not growing runners so much, but Green....Still

The portions covered in leaves look like they did last June!

 

[foreman Etexas]

You're right, the bermuda is starting to green up in my pasture. Might be an early first cut this year!

Probaly green up real nice,then have late freeze.

 

[jinman]

Bird, as it was last winter, 80% of my St Augustine is still green, not growing runners so much, but Green....Still

The portions covered in leaves look like they did last June!

Just one county line away and my grass is completely different. My St. Augustine is completely browned out as is my Bermuda. The only thing green in my yard is the tall fescue.

 

[Western]

Probaly green up real nice,then have late freeze.

Aint that the way it usually goes?? I have looked at my Bermuda the last couple of days, ( no hay fields anymore) The Giant I have is still dormant, the hybrid in the yard, has very few greenish spots, but certainly not growing. If I recall, constant daytime temps of 80* really had my hayfield s on the roll.

 

[two_bit_score]

Driving on the causeway over the Intracoastal from Port Aransas to Corpus was beautiful this morning.

 

[texasjohn]

Klien grass and Eastern Gamma are both green right at ground level still. They are last to go dormant, first to green up of the warm weather grasses.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Aint that the way it usually goes?? I have looked at my Bermuda the last couple of days, ( no hay fields anymore) The Giant I have is still dormant, the hybrid in the yard, has very few greenish spots, but certainly not growing. If I recall, constant daytime temps of 80* really had my hayfield s. on the roll.

You know it! I think its ground temp need to be 70's at night for the coastal to do anything. But its just hard to make descion lately on what to do with the pastures. Desided not to over seed the hay meadows with rye grass so it doesn't set me back on first coastal cutting. Thinking about sprigging another pasture but I have lost grass on the other that I don't know if can hold the cows long enough,and I'm going to be out of hay end of next month. **** if you do,dang'd if you don't...

 

[bindian]

We got right at less than 1/4 inch of rain.
hugs, Brandi