Kyle_in_Tex
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Yep, 6.79" in a little over 3 hours.
Over 2" per hour x 3.
Everybody byot. (Tubes).
Over 2" per hour x 3.
Everybody byot. (Tubes).
Texas Spring/Summer Thread
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DABSGT
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All of you TBN members in Texas stay safe with the weather.
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blueriver
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Just got a weather alert for my area ... FLOODING thru Saturday ... should prove to be an interesting week!!
CowboyRon
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Sunday night was bad enough for me. I was trying to get home but all of the roads were flooded out. I finally found one road that was only 6" deep.
Then Monday our bull "barbacoa" busted down 2 fences and I had 5 cows on 3 different properties.
The next time I get him in the corral he will be on his way to becoming barbacoa for real.
NativeSon
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Bird
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No rain this morning, just overcast, but the NWS forecasters are getting really brave. They're forecasting 100% heavy rain between 2 p.m. this afternoon and 2 a.m. tomorrow. And I don't think it's going to be dry enough to mow today before the next round of rain arrives.
txdon
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Looks like more rain heading this way also.
The wild Mustang grape crop looks like it will be a bumper crop this year. Has anyone successfully made Mustang grape wine?
The wild Mustang grape crop looks like it will be a bumper crop this year. Has anyone successfully made Mustang grape wine?
SirReal63
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We are getting more heavy rain today, as well as a tornado watch. Last Friday we got between 3-4 inches in a little over an hour. Some of our neighbors reported 3 and a few said 4, we haven't bought a rain gauge yet, will need to soon. it is a soupy mess here still.
A few pics from last Friday.
This is our road going to the property
Coming down off the neighbors property. I knew there was a dry creekbed here, but I have never seen water in it.
The neighbors pond, not quite full...
It didn't take long to fill it with this coming into it...
It is now full, it rose over 10' in a little over an hour.
I didn't take any pics of our driveway, but there was over 6" of water flowing down it and it rutted out in a couple places. This was good, it showed me where I need to work on drainage, although with the deluge we got I don't think anything would have prevented it.
A few pics from last Friday.
This is our road going to the property
Coming down off the neighbors property. I knew there was a dry creekbed here, but I have never seen water in it.
The neighbors pond, not quite full...
It didn't take long to fill it with this coming into it...
It is now full, it rose over 10' in a little over an hour.
I didn't take any pics of our driveway, but there was over 6" of water flowing down it and it rutted out in a couple places. This was good, it showed me where I need to work on drainage, although with the deluge we got I don't think anything would have prevented it.
sseelhoff
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Here comes the rain. We are uinder a severe thunderstorm warning and tornado watch. Just got very dark outside (dark enough that I have to turn on lights). Horses in from the pasture. The big question is how long do I have before the power goes out.
CowboyRon
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He's a big boy, I think he could feed all of TBN.
Kyle_in_Tex
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When they get loose, it'll have you saying "Where's the beef?"
I don't live near Fredericksburg, but I saw that they got 2.3" of rain. Great news for them. It has been so dry there for so long.
Kyle_in_Tex
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My 93 or 94 year old uncle used to make it. Can't really say how good it was. Never had it.
CowboyRon
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My mom made it once when I was 12, and I told her it was the best wine I ever had. I wasn't lying because before that day I never had any, but my dad and mom agreed it was pretty bad.
My uncle used to make some mustang grape wine, and dewberry wine that I always thought was pretty good.
OP
Bird
Rest in Peace
I have a cousin who made some about 1968-69. He said it tasted pretty good, but their little house had a see through bookcase/room divider between the living room and kitchen. He had gotten a bottle that he thought was especially pretty, full of that wine, and he set it up at the top of that bookcase. It exploded, got wine and glass shards on the carpet, and all over the living room and kitchen, including in his wife's hair. And that was the end of his wine making.:laughing:
Lou66
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How high is the water daddy?,, 3 feet high and rising,, Here on the gulf coast we no longer measure in inches,, we went to footage,, :laughing:
txdon
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The Mustang grapes are very acidic. I have read warnings that the fermentation takes about 5 months and if you bottle it before the fermentation stops, bottle explosion is likely. That means if I start harvesting the grapes, when they are ripe in July, I could bottle them in December.
Lou I have been seeing that you have been pounded, hope you are high and dry.
robbyr
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I've made jelly from mustang grapes but never wine. Wouldn't mind trying it but don't have a recipe.
houstonscott
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Lou66
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I have got little over 14 inches in the last week,, plus that much or more in the two weeks before.. and monsoon season is not here,, yet.. I should have been a rice farmer instead of a mater and tator guy,, going to Wal mart and get me scuba suit and drive down and look at my garden,, maybe today.. Lou
