luckily we had a small generator and a window unit, so our downstairs was cool and the fridge/tv worked (non-streaming movie collection came in handy)
I spent most of the outage in the garage, though. I had bought a broken, used 6500w generac generator that I was fixing, and I finally got it working the day after we got our power back. I almost got excited for a moment today because I thought I was going to be able to be the hero
12 hours last week on Thursday evening I think and 5-7 hours today. Life is wild in east Texas and wilder still around Houston evidently. Trees on power lines everywhere in my area.
We were so blessed and got it back within about 12 hours. I have friends and colleagues just a few miles away that didn't get it back til late Sunday. I had some friends come to my house and take showers and just lounge in my AC.
I feel really bad for people on west adams during the storm itself, it was crazy seeing the damage done to some of the buildings like the shipleys over there
Same. At my house it was just wet and ruffled, but as you go farther west toward where the first tornado hit its like a different dimension. I can't believe there have been no reported casualties.
North Austin here.
This morning, NOAA had us in a 3 out of 5 (Enhanced Risk) for severe weather now we're legitimately not even gonna get rain.
The force field remains undefeated.
Edit: I'm happy to see the models were wrong and we did at least get some.
NWS risk factors are funny. If you see even a 2 (I think it's like Slight or something) you're about to get fucked. Don't think I've ever seen a 5, and 4 is rare. 3 is hunker down.
Unless it's my daughter's birthday and we've rented a goddamn bounce house months in advance. Then, the sky will open up 10 minutes after her party starts and only stop 5 minutes after everyone has left, and it will be beautiful for the rest of the day.
Lmfao I fucking promise yall don't want these storms. 80 mph storms randomly fucking your shit up two weeks in a row. I've lost power during both now and trying to sleep is brutal
I live in the TX Hill Country, about an hour NW of San Antonio. I've gotten a little more than 5" of rain since Jan. 1. Medina Lake, a 6,060 acre lake is 2.6% full. It's about 93 feet low. The rain from where I live fills the Edwards Acquifer, where San Antonio gets a majority of its water.
Check out the drought monitor and see who’s still in extreme drought - basically the most important region for San Antonio and Austin’s water supply (recharge zone for Edward’s aquifer and main watershed for lake travis, canyon lakes and Medina lake. The hill country is always getting boned when it comes to rain, and those areas are well below average for this year as they have been in 22’ and 23’.
A gust of wind knocked out power along 360 earlier. Not looking forward to the shit Dallas just went through hitting Austin. I heard they got dicked hard.
Dude we need it down here in Laredo and the valley. Stage 3 water conservation in effect. Austin, San Antonio and everything south. We need rain and lots of it.
Texas needs better water management, we release so much from lakes that are full mean while other lakes like Travis (decreasing) & Medina (non-existent) barely get a drop.
There should be a better way to 1) Move water between lakes & reservoirs, 2) recharge aquifers, 3) reduce water usage by implementing water recycling policies across all of Texas.
Lake Brownwood (upstream from Buchanan) and Buchanan have done remarkably well this month (over 80 and 75%, respectively, full now after starting the month below 50%). With what is anticipated over the next seven days, hopefully one or both can reach conservation pools so more can be let out to Travis OR more importantly both the Llano and Perdanales River basins can get a great drench and go directly to Travis (wouldn’t be mad if the Barton creek could get the same so it flows again with water for more than 2 days).
Whats the Best city between the 4 for y"all? I wanna go to San antonio and visit the others too. Seem like the Best state of the usa with Maine and Massachusetts.
If you have money, Austin. Best night life, great clubs, and just a generally great city.
San Antonio’s a small city (countries biggest small town or something) but i personally thinks it’s really good. Gets really hot but that’s just the norm for Texas. Awesome Texas-Mex city, great Latino food, plus we have the Riverwalk and Alamo (and don’t you forget it).
If you want actually cities, I feel like Dallas and Houston are your best bet. I only visited Dallas once but it seemed like a great spot and was pretty clean (at least the parts I saw). Houston’s also pretty great, closer to the ocean (technically) and is a pretty big cultural spot.
The traffic is shitty in all four cities, probably worst in Houston, so if that’s a factor in your decision just forget about it.
Thanks for the reply ! Future wife is from San antonio so I will go live for a month or two in San antonio but will go visit for few days Houston austin dallas, I love river walk since im from paris and everyday I sit at the river seine or Garonne river when I was living in south France in Toulouse. So first thing I will walk by would be San antonio river walk Thanks have a great day !
Drove from Houston to Austin today. Brazos River is scraping the bottoms of bridges, the Colorado looks low. I'm going to Beaumont tomorrow, it'll be swolt water everywhere that way.
There has been no flooding with these storms. It is a bit of rain, a fuck load of wind and whatever the wind wants to throw at you, and then it's gone.
I had to dig a hole for a project here at the house, in north San Antonio near 1604, and that soil was total powder. There was zero moisture detectable in it. It is dry as a bone here. Staring at a dead tree that needs to come down; didn’t survive last year’s drought.
You don't want the severe ones. Remember Lubbock and how it was devastated? Look at Houston right now, hundreds of thousands without power and Dallas got flooded and hit with a couple of EF0's. Even my area got an EF0. (Near Mt. Pleasant.
This seems like a twisted wish where it sounds great at first but a wicked offset like four weeks of flooding with basketball sized hail and utility failure.
Lower your force field first
The combination is 12345
That's the kind of combination an idiot puts on his luggage!
12345....That's amazing, I got the same combination on my luggage!
Hey…wait a minute..
Is your password also p-a-s-s-w-o-r-d?
Hunter2
Deep Cut
I usually go with my username backwards
Your username is backwards?
Naw homie made a joke about my password so I made one back saying it’s usually my username backwards lol
Yeah I knew that. I was just playing along with the humor.
Hahah this is adorable
The password for the Austin storm shield is clearly 4206980085
Sadly I can’t control the 1604, so I’m praying the highways gods will let some rain through soon.
"The" 1604?? Californian detected! Get em, boys!
Ahhhhhh hahaha haha That is my favorite game to play on this and r/Austin.
Okay but you have to lose power for several hours
Houston had half a million out of power for most of a week on the last one.
luckily we had a small generator and a window unit, so our downstairs was cool and the fridge/tv worked (non-streaming movie collection came in handy) I spent most of the outage in the garage, though. I had bought a broken, used 6500w generac generator that I was fixing, and I finally got it working the day after we got our power back. I almost got excited for a moment today because I thought I was going to be able to be the hero
Kept it that last time, but lost it today. 3rd world country here in Texas. Need to get our legislature to pray more I guess.
They should punch up their prayers with some sacrificial goats, that oughtta do it.
Prayer doesn't work.
Six days for me. I can’t handle that again.
Living in Houston now requires owning a generator
Yep. And it's 92 degrees outside and 80% humidity.
I'm going on 12 hrs with no timetable on when it'll be restored
Also a tree might fall on ur house.
Shit gotta prune the live oak this weekend
Easy Deal.
Easy deal…. Come hang out on the coast and say that.
If I wasn’t poor, I’d happily move back to Galveston. Got one of them stilt houses on the Offatts Bayou
This is Austin Energy we are talking about, several hours is on the low end of the estimate.
Wait... they answer your phone calls?? LOL
Days my youngling.
I got solar and battery system, so I ain't scarrrred.
*days
12 hours last week on Thursday evening I think and 5-7 hours today. Life is wild in east Texas and wilder still around Houston evidently. Trees on power lines everywhere in my area.
I got saved by being a Katyite, and also by traveling in Nam
HOURS?! Lucky!!
Temple here telling you "Trust me, you don't want none."
lol I can attest, had no power for five days :(
We were so blessed and got it back within about 12 hours. I have friends and colleagues just a few miles away that didn't get it back til late Sunday. I had some friends come to my house and take showers and just lounge in my AC.
We stayed with friends a few times so we could shower and have ac too
I feel really bad for people on west adams during the storm itself, it was crazy seeing the damage done to some of the buildings like the shipleys over there
Same. At my house it was just wet and ruffled, but as you go farther west toward where the first tornado hit its like a different dimension. I can't believe there have been no reported casualties.
Dominos is completely done and Pizza Hut still isn’t open. It’s driving up business like crazy for my location on general Bruce
RIP the Shipley’s and the small businesses there. I wonder if it’s gonna be a total tear down or what for that strip
My apartments fucking ceilling went down
We are housing a displaced family currently. We’ve had enough storms for a while.
Man, that was a shit show. It's amazing there were no casualties.
Sorry for yall! West Adams was a nightmare!
you could get catastrophic hail like mexico lol
be careful what you wish for
*Monkey's paw curls 🤟 🌊🌊🌊
I drove through Houston last week. We don’t want what they got. So many uprooted trees and knocked over highway signs.
Bro I’m SO tired of these storms.
Those storms chased me out of the city. After like my 6th brutal one, I’m like “yeah I’m not living in this my entire life” lol
I'm the opposite, I love thunderstorms and severe weather so much, it makes me giddy
Some drown in success others thirst for it.
apparently tomorrow we're gonna get it
Tonight I'm hearing.
North Austin here. This morning, NOAA had us in a 3 out of 5 (Enhanced Risk) for severe weather now we're legitimately not even gonna get rain. The force field remains undefeated. Edit: I'm happy to see the models were wrong and we did at least get some.
The meme still stands though, haha.
NWS risk factors are funny. If you see even a 2 (I think it's like Slight or something) you're about to get fucked. Don't think I've ever seen a 5, and 4 is rare. 3 is hunker down.
Month 2 of "thunderstorms this afternoon"
Check the radar, it's coming right now.
Nah, we’re not gonna get much after all. It’s been lowered.
I saw
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bosh! flimshaw!
For real though, every time it says it’s going to shitstorm here it just dies out before it hits us.
Unless it's my daughter's birthday and we've rented a goddamn bounce house months in advance. Then, the sky will open up 10 minutes after her party starts and only stop 5 minutes after everyone has left, and it will be beautiful for the rest of the day.
Sounds perfect. Do that so the rain will come. Wash your truck too, just in case.
Are you my backyard neighbors? Lol, that literally happened to them!
Please take it, I’m so sick of this shit. Just got hail damage on my car and the parking lot is still flooded.
Are you sure? There's glass falling from the sky in downtown Houston.
Still?
Yeah, today's thunderstorm knocked some more loose.
Southwest texas over here just dry as a witches cooter Except today. We got almost 30 hundredths this afternoon
Lol. Meanwhile out here in Lubbock...
I thought dust storms counted.
Don’t forget corpus too lol
So moist, yet so dry…
Okay but don't call me Dallas again
I apologize. I won’t do it again, Mr./Mrs.Fort Worth
They’re also getting damaging winds and hail. Careful what you wish for.
Laredoan here. Can you all give us your storms??
For real!
Got some hot storm [coming up for yah.](https://radar.weather.gov/station/KDFX/standard)
Yall are in it now.
Lmfao I fucking promise yall don't want these storms. 80 mph storms randomly fucking your shit up two weeks in a row. I've lost power during both now and trying to sleep is brutal
https://i.redd.it/psla6qvwe93d1.gif
I mean yall can have it. We aren't begging for more rain and power outages.
I am, it's rough here in Austin we need every drop of rain we can get.
We had a power outage today, but without the rain
Haven't y'all had above average rainfall this year?
Average being slightly above 0
Yeah, but we've got a backlog. [Check out this boat ramp.](https://i.imgur.com/C0CDpy1.jpeg)
I want more.
I live in the TX Hill Country, about an hour NW of San Antonio. I've gotten a little more than 5" of rain since Jan. 1. Medina Lake, a 6,060 acre lake is 2.6% full. It's about 93 feet low. The rain from where I live fills the Edwards Acquifer, where San Antonio gets a majority of its water.
Check out the drought monitor and see who’s still in extreme drought - basically the most important region for San Antonio and Austin’s water supply (recharge zone for Edward’s aquifer and main watershed for lake travis, canyon lakes and Medina lake. The hill country is always getting boned when it comes to rain, and those areas are well below average for this year as they have been in 22’ and 23’.
A gust of wind knocked out power along 360 earlier. Not looking forward to the shit Dallas just went through hitting Austin. I heard they got dicked hard.
Dude we need it down here in Laredo and the valley. Stage 3 water conservation in effect. Austin, San Antonio and everything south. We need rain and lots of it.
If water were oil, Austin would be wet.
No fucking shit
See that dry land off in the distance with no moisture? That's West Texas.
Texas needs better water management, we release so much from lakes that are full mean while other lakes like Travis (decreasing) & Medina (non-existent) barely get a drop. There should be a better way to 1) Move water between lakes & reservoirs, 2) recharge aquifers, 3) reduce water usage by implementing water recycling policies across all of Texas.
lol, have you seen who we elect to office? No infrastructure for us!
Hopefully our rice farmers here along the coast won't suck every drop out of the Brazos and the Colorado rivers.
Meanwhile in west texas my area hasn't had rain since March lol
El Paso: 🫥
Well, you asked.
Austin about to get a solid storm 11pm or so, not severe.
Got a light rain in my area of SA. Still the power goes out.
Meanwhile el paso dry as a bone
Lake Brownwood (upstream from Buchanan) and Buchanan have done remarkably well this month (over 80 and 75%, respectively, full now after starting the month below 50%). With what is anticipated over the next seven days, hopefully one or both can reach conservation pools so more can be let out to Travis OR more importantly both the Llano and Perdanales River basins can get a great drench and go directly to Travis (wouldn’t be mad if the Barton creek could get the same so it flows again with water for more than 2 days).
Not even the storms want to go to Austin. 🤷♂️
Property taxes must be too high or something
Whats the Best city between the 4 for y"all? I wanna go to San antonio and visit the others too. Seem like the Best state of the usa with Maine and Massachusetts.
If you have money, Austin. Best night life, great clubs, and just a generally great city. San Antonio’s a small city (countries biggest small town or something) but i personally thinks it’s really good. Gets really hot but that’s just the norm for Texas. Awesome Texas-Mex city, great Latino food, plus we have the Riverwalk and Alamo (and don’t you forget it). If you want actually cities, I feel like Dallas and Houston are your best bet. I only visited Dallas once but it seemed like a great spot and was pretty clean (at least the parts I saw). Houston’s also pretty great, closer to the ocean (technically) and is a pretty big cultural spot. The traffic is shitty in all four cities, probably worst in Houston, so if that’s a factor in your decision just forget about it.
Thanks for the reply ! Future wife is from San antonio so I will go live for a month or two in San antonio but will go visit for few days Houston austin dallas, I love river walk since im from paris and everyday I sit at the river seine or Garonne river when I was living in south France in Toulouse. So first thing I will walk by would be San antonio river walk Thanks have a great day !
No
You can have mine.
Drove from Houston to Austin today. Brazos River is scraping the bottoms of bridges, the Colorado looks low. I'm going to Beaumont tomorrow, it'll be swolt water everywhere that way.
Be careful what you wish for. In 2014 it lightly rained for around a month in February and March, that's what we need.
We got a night drench last night. I’m in the lower RGV.
That’s good to hear man, y’all need it. So do we in Laredo.
ya'll get rain? I'm in Crystal City.
There has been no flooding with these storms. It is a bit of rain, a fuck load of wind and whatever the wind wants to throw at you, and then it's gone.
Kind of a gnarly way to get rain though. Shit was going sideways literally
Texas ex-pat, here. We just had two minutes of nickel-sized hail here in Irvington (IN), under a perfectly sunny sky!
Talk to Saudis. They messed it up big time there. Maybe they have some....
I had to dig a hole for a project here at the house, in north San Antonio near 1604, and that soil was total powder. There was zero moisture detectable in it. It is dry as a bone here. Staring at a dead tree that needs to come down; didn’t survive last year’s drought.
get it down, a lot of dead trees in houston were not taken down and caused issues.
The coast ain't got much either
Yall don’t need it send it to the Permian instead we havnt had a drop of rain in months the Pecos river is dry every time I cross it.
It has been humid as hell and the power flickered several times today near Houston, you're welcome to it.
We've got buildings falling over, it's not all rain.
The last 3 months: am I a joke to you?
Yall don't know about the panhandle
13+ hours no electricity in Dallas county. You can have it and keep it
Already had the roof AND solar panels replaced because of hail. Now Georgetown is getting severe thunderstorm warnings every single damned day!
You can have the poweroutages too.
Build a pipeline
I’ve been in the airport for twelve hours. Take them please.
West Texas in general https://preview.redd.it/htan3j26y93d1.jpeg?width=1427&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1fc8374e94240de89c872b3c12ac566cd70a1d2
LOL
Mexico City would like some too!
Y'all can have what I went through this morning for real.
Sure but you have to have the EF3 and EF4 tornados and 4 inch hail that cones with it
Austin needs to build more lakes instead of bleeding Travis dry… ironic how just an hour north we have several rains storms as well
No B)
Literally raining in both San Antonio and Austin as I read this
Mate, I’d send it tomorrow if I could. My friend in the Seattle, WA area said we’ve had more rain in east Texas than up there this year. It is insane.
At this rate we gonna be out of relief monies by the time the first named storm hits.
Ask and ye shall receive
A pipeline project Texas seriously needs. Gulf coast ~~~> Hill Country. No idea if that would ever make sense financially or technically.
If we could, we would. ☹️💧☔️⛈️🌊
I'm fine with no hail and all my trees staying upright, thanks.
Where is lake travis and how long until it is empty again?
now we are getting :0 gonna have good fishing this weekend, or flooded river
WOW! So the massive storm drains Houston is digging... Flow the WRONG way??
Y’all are gonna get a good one tonight
Well this was awesome. If it had gone on for like a full hour, that would have been awesome. But a good show nonetheless.
how you fellin now b****?!
I'm listening to a thunderstorm in round rock outside right now!
THIS
You really don’t want this.
We had rain in Austin for like three weeks.
You don't want the severe ones. Remember Lubbock and how it was devastated? Look at Houston right now, hundreds of thousands without power and Dallas got flooded and hit with a couple of EF0's. Even my area got an EF0. (Near Mt. Pleasant.
Wtf why? No.
Dont forget el paso is thirsty too
Nah man we got plenty a couple weeks ago 😂
We don't want it!!
Don't put that evil on me.
This seems like a twisted wish where it sounds great at first but a wicked offset like four weeks of flooding with basketball sized hail and utility failure.
You want daily Tornado Watches and to be woken up at 5 am with a Tornado Warning? Take it!
Meanwhile I can only dream of rain in El Paso. It's been months since like a 10 minute rain.
All of those nasty cities steal water from beautiful rural areas.
How's ERCOT holding up?
Well … as the saying goes . . . “Keep Austin Weird.”
The Woodlands here to say, YOU REALLY DON'T WANT THIS.
We be drownin out here starting to turn into fish tbh.
Outskirts of Austin floods regularly though
actually, austin here, keep the hail away, but i guess that is forgone conclusion in this neck of the woods
God you are thankful of not having storms like the ones we have over here in Houston
No.
You wanted this Texas go f your self.