So good to see the drought easing.

Ray Roberts is up nearly 4' on the year, almost 2 of that since yesterday. Up 6' in all from its 2014 low. Hasn't been this full since 2013 and I suspect after the runoff and next wave it'll be 2012 since it was this full. Beautiful sight.

Funny thing about Texas is the long term pattern of rain and drought. Most of us haven't lived long enough to see both, but that's what we're going through right now.

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This is how I remember it growing up, and it hasnt done this in what 8 years?

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Try 20. This stuff started in about 1995 in North Texas. We've had a few wet years, but have overall been abnormally hot and dry for most of it.

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Try 20. This stuff started in about 1995 in North Texas. We've had a few wet years, but have overall been abnormally hot and dry for most of it.

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Growing up in Fort Worth (born in 1987) I don't really everremember it raining very much. Seemed like from about June to August it just didn't rain. I live in Pearland now and I'm still not used to the random rain
showers that pop up in the shower. I keep telling everyone summer is supposed to be dry. Very, very dry.

Midland and Big Spring look better than a lot of the Hill Country right now.

Wharton County about to get slammed by big storm.

1.5" in Victoria came down in about an hour with more on the way. Refugio county under tornado warning. Should be a fun evening and a real fun day tomorrow. Hope the hail stays away...

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Ray Roberts is up nearly 4' on the year, almost 2 of that since yesterday. Up 6' in all from its 2014 low. Hasn't been this full since 2013 and I suspect after the runoff and next wave it'll be 2012 since it was this full. Beautiful sight.

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I drive 377 over the far eastern end fairly often. Been dry under that bridge for a couple of years now. Was there last shift and the water looked to be knee deep or more in the channel. It was a lovely sight!

Hopefully this storm hitting us around Canyon Lake pours like this for a day or so. it would be lovely for the lake to hit the levels it did when the spillway gave out back in early 2002

Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't it June / July of 2007 when the majority of lakes in Texas were closed due to flooding?

I also believe that was the same year, Texas' drought status from the previous years was lifted.

Pretty scary looking hook echo just south of Throckmorten, pucker up.

today's rain? Is that current? We're supposed to have bad thunderstorms tomorrow but the radar right now is uneventful.

Yeah he was talking about today. Possibly had a tornado in Refugio this afternoon.

Lost power for a little in the El Campo area. Looks bad off the porch in the Danevang/Bay City direction.

Tomorrow doesn't look good.

Drove the entire length of 130 today from Seguin to Georgetown and was absolutely crushed on the southern end of it. We were all driving real slow with hazards on for about 20 minutes. It was beautiful.

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Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't it June / July of 2007 when the majority of lakes in Texas were closed due to flooding?

I also believe that was the same year, Texas' drought status from the previous years was lifted.

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Sounds about right, about that time I took my annual pilgrimage out west and was absolutely amazed at how green and lush everything was. In 46 years I had never seen that country that green.

Lots of rain in Houston. Anyone know if Mason county is getting any of this rain? LCRA doesn't show levels rising much there.

I found a neat website today. You can see historical data for most of the lakes/reservoirs/rivers in Texas. I can't remember which lake I was looking at, but you can even see when they decided to raise the lake level/area, or at least that's what I assume it was because the level randomly doubled one year.

http://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/statewide

Edit: It was Canyon Lake. Anyone from there know if they indeed raised the level or expanded it in the late 60's?

THIS IS RELATED:

It really bothers me that people pronounce Buchanan as "bew-canon' instead of "BUCK-anon" like it's supposed to be.

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better be non-import beer

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Rahr & Sons.

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Meh, terrible micro-brews.

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Cold. Free.

For those of you who don't know, it's the name of a geologic uplift south of the Buchanan dam.

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I found a neat website today. You can see historical data for most of the lakes/reservoirs/rivers in Texas. I can't remember which lake I was looking at, but you can even see when they decided to raise the lake level/area, or at least that's what I assume it was because the level randomly doubled one year.

http://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/statewide

Edit: It was Canyon Lake. Anyone from there know if they indeed raised the level or expanded it in the late 60's?

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Canyon lake was built in the late 50s early 60s

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Rahr & Sons.

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Meh, terrible micro-brews.

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Cold. Free.

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My favorite flavor

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Lots of rain in Houston. Anyone know if Mason county is getting any of this rain? LCRA doesn't show levels rising much there.

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Don't think so. Certainly not enough to get the creeks moving.

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I found a neat website today. You can see historical data for most of the lakes/reservoirs/rivers in Texas. I can't remember which lake I was looking at, but you can even see when they decided to raise the lake level/area, or at least that's what I assume it was because the level randomly doubled one year.

http://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/statewide

Edit: It was Canyon Lake. Anyone from there know if they indeed raised the level or expanded it in the late 60's?

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Canyon lake was built in the late 50s early 60s

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Right, but if you look at the graph, you can see that for much of its first 10 years it was one level, and then it suddenly doubled. I just thought it would be an interesting historical anecdote to know.

For the life of me, I can't understand why............

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04/ntmwd-will-ease-water-restrictions-on-may-1.html/

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I pronounce it 'Manchaca'

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The idiots in south ATX call it 'Manshack'.

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Wrong. I'm a born and bred in SW Austin (Oak Hill before Austin swallowed it up) idiot.
It's not 'Manshack' but 'Manchack'. Get it right.
Also, 'Guadalupe' is "Gwahdahloop", "Burnet" is "Burn-it", and "Pedernales" is "Perduhnalus".

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Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't it June / July of 2007 when the majority of lakes in Texas were closed due to flooding?

I also believe that was the same year, Texas' drought status from the previous years was lifted.

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In 2007 we experienced very heavy rainfall due to "cut off" low pressure systems. They would hang out in west Texas and send wave after wave of instability and rainfall over the state.

We had moved to San Marcos in 2006 from Houston so to say I was surprised at the amount of rainfall in the hill country in 2007 was an understatement.

Here are the rainfall totals for the spring and summer of 2007:

January 9.25"
February 0.10"
March 7.80"
April 4.20"
May 8.40"
June 5.00"
July 20.60"
August 3.00"

Total 58.35"

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Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't it June / July of 2007 when the majority of lakes in Texas were closed due to flooding?

I also believe that was the same year, Texas' drought status from the previous years was lifted.

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In 2007 we experienced very heavy rainfall due to "cut off" low pressure systems. They would hang out in west Texas and send wave after wave of instability and rainfall over the state.

We had moved to San Marcos in 2006 from Houston so to say I was surprised at the amount of rainfall in the hill country in 2007 was an understatement.

Here are the rainfall totals for the spring and summer of 2007:

January 9.25"
February 0.10"
March 7.80"
April 4.20"
May 8.40"
June 5.00"
July 20.60"
August 3.00"

Total 58.35"

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Yeah that was the year Fox News showed up at I35 in San Marcos to show the high water mark on the bridge.

Only time I've seen water over RR 12

Pleasanton looks like it got hammered. Texted a friend in Tilden - he said they were getting some bad wx.

We just got hammered with a squall south of Houston. Ping pong ball sized hail in angleton, wind was probably gusting around 30-35 knots. Jad me a smidge worried there for a second.

Hell of a lightening show, probably lost my little grill when a gust blew it over and bent it all to hell.