Is Choke Canyon filling?

Last saturday when all this started I got 7" in about 4 hours and had recorded almost 12" thought Monday evening. It finally dried out enough that I decided to do some fajitas on my BGE. Opened it up to start a fire and had mold growing inside and had 2" of water in the bottom. Never had that happen ever. It was closed and had the ceramic lid on. Fortunately fire kills everything.

I'm sick and tired of water.

GottaRide said:

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Is Choke Canyon filling?

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Good question !

It is up about 2 feet in the last week and 43% full.

It won't stop raining on the upper gulf coast. We had another .25-1.5" today. I did the math and in the last 50 days we have had 9 days that had 6 hours or more of sunshine. Projected another 2-5" more by Wednesday. We have had 20-50" widespread since sept 1. 25,000 acres of unharvested cotton just in matagorda county. County agent estimated that if they can harvest the cotton that is left in the field the estimated losses are 16.8M with a 50m hit to county economy. That is grade deducts and pounds lost. Thing is most of it won't get harvested so I expect it will be a lot higher than that. Luckily most of it is out in surrrounding counties but the hit to grades and pounds is significant.

It won't stop for another week at best. Everyone should get brief respites, but overall the unsettled pattern will persist.

I work in the building right next to the pennybacker bridge on 360, right on the lake. The water is as brown and murky as I've ever seen it.

p_bubel said:

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Local news agency posted this today on Facebook.

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I haven't seen it in so long. I ALMOST see it now.

The grass in my backyard is almost dead. Black clay, poor drainage, days of rain, and no sunshine yields a damn mess.

Going fishing next week inand around Port A / Rockport - is there a good fisherman's or weatherman's app that provides lightening warnings?

Hurricane Willa Baja Mexico then possibly to Texas Thur or Friday. Let's hope not.

Ag in OK: I use the Storm Radar App from the Weather Channel, will check around here in Rockport to see what others use. Next week looks pretty good weather wise. Tides are still HIGH, where ya goin' and what are ya fishin' for and with? Perhaps the North wind we all of a sudden have will knock some of this water out of the bays/

Two 16' long 4x4s secured to be about 18"-24" apart, and a long rope to that far tree wrapped once to ease it down the ramp.

Tractor and some tow straps.

Wait for Hurricane Willa to cross Mexico and dump more historic rainfall on Texas.

When's that suppose to happen

Next weekend in the valley, that's my guess. The projections don't go past Thursday with it somewhere west of Saltillo.

You close to Kingsland? There are some guys that came and got all the boats and jet skis stranded in our area. Some were in peculiar spots (not quite like that though) and they figured out a way to get them picked up. I can find their number if you'd like.

Apparently City of Meadowlakes is going to get it down for them. The 4x4 option would have been fun to watch though.

aggiepublius said:

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With light rain expected Monday and moderate rain forecast for Tuesday and wednesday an additional 2 to 3 inches are possible across much of South Central Texas through the day on Wednesday. Isolated totals up to 4 inches are possible. This rain falling on already saturated ground could lead to renewed river flooding issues and minor flash flooding issues.

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Maybe that track will get some water into Amistad and Falcon

We need it still. Keep getting missed

mathguy86 said:

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Last saturday when all this started I got 7" in about 4 hours and had recorded almost 12" thought Monday evening. It finally dried out enough that I decided to do some fajitas on my BGE. Opened it up to start a fire and had mold growing inside and had 2" of water in the bottom. Never had that happen ever. It was closed and had the ceramic lid on. Fortunately fire kills everything.

I'm sick and tired of water.

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Welcome to my world, for the last 18 months.

I updated my weather tracking log for a project in Texas City the other day. From November 2, 2016 though March 1, 2018 - 196 days of weather impact.

That is just over 40% of the days having some form of rain or post rain impacts on my project.

Is that not to be expected along that area of the coast? Sea breeze pop up showers? I know Galveston and the local area has been inundated lately, but the SE Texas coast is known for sea breeze shower activity, especially in the warmer months.

I think the last decade it has been less frequent, by my recollection, leading to the drought effects and such 6-10 years ago. Massive timber losses and now dead fall piling up creating more fire hazards. It feels like it's shifting back now to the wetter climate with the seasonal showers that I remember before the droughts around 7-10 years ago, but I don't know that we've had enough time to really assess whether it's a shift or just a wetter point in time. I do wish that the jet stream and other weather drivers would shift to allow for the areas out west in extreme droughts to get some needed relief, to refill the drastically drained reservoirs out there in NM, CO, NV and UT.

We seem to be in a feast or famine mode of precipitation the last couple years. I don't know what the main driver is of that, I'm not a proponent of global warming. I know it's attributed to El Nino, or La Nina, climate changes, etc.. Just a few years ago we were worried the aquifers were going dry. Hopefully they are seeing a major recharge with the torrential rains we've experience recently. I guess that depends on the type of recharge zone.

Willa is now a Cat 5

toolshed said:

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Is that not to be expected along that area of the coast? Sea breeze pop up showers? I know Galveston and the local area has been inundated lately, but the SE Texas coast is known for sea breeze shower activity, especially in the warmer months.

I think the last decade it has been less frequent, by my recollection, leading to the drought effects and such 6-10 years ago. Massive timber losses and now dead fall piling up creating more fire hazards. It feels like it's shifting back now to the wetter climate with the seasonal showers that I remember before the droughts around 7-10 years ago, but I don't know that we've had enough time to really assess whether it's a shift or just a wetter point in time. I do wish that the jet stream and other weather drivers would shift to allow for the areas out west in extreme droughts to get some needed relief, to refill the drastically drained reservoirs out there in NM, CO, NV and UT.

We seem to be in a feast or famine mode of precipitation the last couple years. I don't know what the main driver is of that, I'm not a proponent of global warming. I know it's attributed to El Nino, or La Nina, climate changes, etc.. Just a few years ago we were worried the aquifers were going dry. Hopefully they are seeing a major recharge with the torrential rains we've experience recently. I guess that depends on the type of recharge zone.

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No, it's not to that degree. That is about 2x what would be considered normal and expected.

that's like the last thing we need

Going to get hairy af again