Seems like every big rain we start a thread to ***** about how it ruined our day, so I will start.

Light out at 146 and 517. Backed up for 15 mins. And, I watered the grass last night because I just put down some new sod and stupid WeatherBug said 50 percent chance for today.

aTm2004 said:

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These dumbasses on the road believe that a wet road automatically means you cut the speed limit in half. at least I didn't see any of the emergency flasher idiots driving around.

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aTm2004 said:

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These dumbasses on the road believe that a wet road automatically means you cut the speed limit in half. at least I didn't see any of the emergency flasher idiots driving around.

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Surprisingly I only saw one emergency flasher in the rain dude today.

I would have been happy with half speed limit - seems 2004 near Texas City was down to about 1/4 of the speed limit. Metric crap ton of rain though - felt like I was driving down to Venice on the way to the jobsite. Pretty much the only thing not underwater was the road.

Danbury got over 10", at least half the town is flooded out right now. Started raining at midnight, still hasn't stopped.

Flying into Hobby tonight. Will I need a boat to get home?

nah

aTm2004 said:

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These dumbasses on the road believe that a wet road automatically means you cut the speed limit in half. at least I didn't see any of the emergency flasher idiots driving around.

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Yankees

aTm2004 said:

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These dumbasses on the road believe that a wet road automatically means you cut the speed limit in half. at least I didn't see any of the emergency flasher idiots driving around.

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I saw several, in both lanes. Also saw a bunch of Nascar drivers thinking you can still go 80+ on 288 when the road is causing everyone to hydroplane.

Ag_07 said:

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And whatta ya know...Weather nerds didn't see this coming.

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Saw what coming? If there was any "weather nerd" posts yesterday and today happened, there would be a 5 page thread about sensationalism.

Nothing happened today except it rained. They weren't "wrong" except in the sense that there are obviously going to be people *****ing either way and this thread is proof.

The biggest, barely weather related, thing that happened with this as far as I can tell is that an alligator wandered around a neighborhood and people got annoyed with traffic. There would be 5 pages of people posting pictures of puddle memes showing the "flooding" if the exact weather today followed predictions of a severe rain event.

Cromagnum said:

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JJxvi said:

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Ag_07 said:

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And whatta ya know...Weather nerds didn't see this coming.

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Saw what coming? If there was any "weather nerd" posts yesterday and today happened, there would be a 5 page thread about sensationalism.

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That's the point. Spout off about doom and gloom that doesn't happen or don't mention any concerns at all and yet it happens. Always wrong.

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I just check Space City Weather. They get it right (most of the time) without an ounce of hype. Better, when they do just completely whiff, they own up to it.

Yep. They're good to follow

From Eric

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These storms have been pretty unpredictable (certainly there was little expectation of a nine-inch rain bomb just south of Houston on Monday and Monday night), so we'll have to keep on alert for most of today.

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So I don't wanna hear about they didn't say anything because they didn't wanna hype it up and knew people would beetch either way. The just flat out didn't know it was gonna happen.

a year ago this time we had record flooding. April 18 just sucks I guess.

Ag_07 said:

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Yep. They're good to follow

From Eric

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These storms have been pretty unpredictable (certainly there was little expectation of a nine-inch rain bomb just south of Houston on Monday and Monday night), so we'll have to keep on alert for most of today.

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So I don't wanna hear about they didn't say anything because they didn't wanna hype it up and knew people would beetch either way. The just flat out didn't know it was gonna happen.

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I guess if you don't wanna hear about it, don't post it yourself, because nobody said anything remotely close to that or anything about their motivations. Just pointing out that someone on this board will say they were wrong no matter what they actually say in the build up. This "event" was milder than others which have been called a non event here before and yet, someone actually posted that the "weather nerds got it wrong" as if that person actually wanted the sensationalism and to be warned.

nope

RPM said:

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Umm did Frank Billingsley stand you up for a date or something? Cuz that weather rant is gay AF.

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What are you: 14?

Fuggin 2004 was shut down today. Halls Bayou way over its banks. Should have checked the traffic map prior to heading that way.

Going,to be a fair amount of insurance spending on tbis one. Lots of,property damage south of town. Nothing compared to what it would have been had parts of Houston got hit, but still - a whole lot of folks had bad, bad days.

Blink on!

schmellba99 said:

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Fuggin 2004 was shut down today. Halls Bayou way over its banks. Should have checked the traffic map prior to heading that way.

Going,to be a fair amount of insurance spending on tbis one. Lots of,property damage south of town. Nothing compared to what it would have been had parts of Houston got hit, but still - a whole lot of folks had bad, bad days.

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Checked the radar this morning. All clear except one little finger of rain right up the ass of your area. Salt to the wound.

Until Frankie gets concerned, I don't.

Nice sock!

Dont know what that means, but thanks I guess