Heavy Thunderstorm Rain
Windchill: 48 °F
Humidity: 87%
Wind: 2.0 mph from the NNW
Wind Gust: 13.0 mph
Visibility: 3.0 miles
Dew Point: 44 °F
Precipitation: 90% chance of precipitation
Pressure: 29.89 in (Falling)
Statement as of 6:02 am CST on January 25, 2012
Area Flood Advisory, Flash Flood Watch
Today: Rain and thunderstorms, mainly before noon. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Temperature falling to around 49 by 5pm. North northeast wind between 10 and 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
I'm showing 3.91" in the last 24 hours and it's still coming down.
I HAVE to start making notes!!! Last evening for example I had a flash of what I was going to dazzle you with this morning, but now? Gone, all gone.:-(
Tried to dredge it back up and the only thing that comes to mind is the floods we experienced on the farm back around ’57. But that may be because of this weather we’re having today. Back then we had just moved out to the farm, and unbeknown to us the area was about to experience flooding that would be the beginning of the end of the long drought period the area had been under for about 7 years.
Our farm sat on an iron ore uprising at the intersection of two county roads.
It started raining and it rained and rained and then rained some more. I don’t know how much but I bet Daddy recorded it in one of his journals. Finally the dirt roads that met at the NW corner in the lowest spot, flooded way up over the roads!! All traffic stopped and even the school bus to carry me to junior high couldn’t get through. MAP OF FARM and intersection
See on the west (left side), where Calendar road meets W. Harris road? That whole SW side of the intersection was 3 or 4 feet under water. That map doesn’t show elevations but the corner was the lowest on the farm and Daddy considered over the years putting a pond there but never did.
Of course I moved away from that area after a couple years of college and moved to the Gulf Coast area. Talk about rain!! The house I bought in Seabrook Texas was two blocks from Galveston Bay, elevation was 7ft msl I think. 1740 Capri Lane, Seabrook Texas is the address and here's a link to that House
A heavy rain of big storm in the Gulf would often raise the level of the Bay enough that rain won’t run out fast enough and that intersection would flood.
But I loved living there because fishing was soo close and my big ole boat would just fit in half the garage.
I even experience rain caused flash floods in the desert mountain area of Alpine Texas. When a big storm would come in the water would run off real fast into the natural drainage areas, but would on occasion cause street closings for a while until it had time to run off south. And the final map of my place in Alpine Texas.
Shoot I’ve even seen long dry creeks in the Desert around the Terlingua area flood 4 and 5 feet deep. All caused by run off of water from miles away.
I guess I should have been a meteorologist or TV weather man cause it’s always held my interest.
Quick update. Finally got light enough outside I opened the door and looked out. I'll have pictures of the standing water in a bit when it get's light enough to take some.
And here ya go... Front area big ditch and my ditch with water standing/ running off.
Think I'll secure them and set them on top of the trash container so the guys won't be surprised and possibly the bag breaking.
Mo coffee...
Quick 11:30 update. After I walked the trash down to set out I wandered out to the barn, just to see what .. Dang water still managed to get up high enough to run under the door and all the way through. BUT the one sunken area with sandy bottom has a few inches standing still. Don't see that happen often
Much later today , 6PM as a matter of fact. Seemed like the phone rang every time I got all comfortable and just that close to a nap. :-) The first one was the most Important, My Doctors office telling me she is no longer accepting Medicare patients,, But referred me to a doc close to her that does and also specializes in Old Farts. So I'll make an interview appointment with him and go see if I like him.
Then Jim down in Austin called telling me about all his rain ( was up almost to his garage door).
Then the electrician that had fixed my electrical issue . Just checking that everything was OK and just to chat a bit. Good Guy and I got his cards saved to pass out to people who may need his services.
Someone else but I forget who so it must not have been important.
Think it's time for some good ole warm something for suooer, once I browse the fridge and cupboard.
It is raining cats and dogs here now. It started with very strong winds. There was funnel clouds spotted in Huntsville and some damage.
ReplyDeleteLooking at radar, it looks like you may be in for more the rest of the day as the line of showers move through
DeleteJust now starting to rain here in Houston, but the wind is pretty strong! Nothing like the Austin area is getting, but still strong!
ReplyDeleteHope you have a life jacket handy!
Well, hopefully the front line will move through before you have to load up your escape boat. :-)
DeleteWaiting on buddy Jim in Austin to report in .. Hope he didn't wash away.
we have massive snow in our cascade, hood river is still freezing and snow, don't think schools are going to be in sessions up there, in washington state it is getting back to normal up in the gorge electric is now coming on for many..up in seattle it was horrible, they don't do snow, ice and winds well at all, everyone of those puget sound energy fellows and women too pitched in to get the power on but the ice was so dadblasted bad many just stayed home, schools cancelled and many told to just stay home, horrible, here in the 'couv vancouver washington we got some snow last week, then it rained like it was the flood with Noah's arc..they still predict warm weather it is 51 now cloudy and threatening to rain like the dikens tonight..oh, well one cannot do one darned thing about the weather but endure and endure we do, for the few days in august or september the sun decides to show itself in sweltering heat and humidity, always around the time of the Fair here and miserable, we cannot get dry sunshine, no humidity to make a person weep and heat oh, my living God, the heat hits and it is like a microwave oven temperature wise with lots of humidity, so endure we do here..happy new year, love your blog, think you would have made a great weatherperson..have a great week..ciao
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by Anonymous
DeleteAs a matter of fact I was a Radio Weather guy some back in the '60's in Houston area. Basic job was on air DJ. Everyone else just ripped the paper off the Telex and read it, I'd call the weather bureau when something was going on, like a Hurricane in the Gulf or Tornadoes in the region.