"MrPseudonym" (mrpseudonym)
11/05/2014 at 10:44 • Filed to: BRING THE RAIN, The Weather Girls
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"MrPseudonym" (mrpseudonym)
11/05/2014 at 10:44 • Filed to: BRING THE RAIN, The Weather Girls | 1
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It's raining in Austin. FUCK YES!
PatBateman
> MrPseudonym
11/05/2014 at 10:46 |
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Any flooding yet?
ttyymmnn
> PatBateman
11/05/2014 at 10:50 |
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Nothing terribly heavy. They canceled the Flash Food Watch around 5 am. It's just steady, easy rain, the kind that's so good for my yard. It's also only 56 degrees, and will stay that temp all day.
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ttyymmnn
> MrPseudonym
11/05/2014 at 10:54 |
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OMG, what a horrible video. Of course, just about every video in the early '80s was horrible. It was medium that nobody could quite figure out what to do with. And disco just wouldn't die.
I'm enjoying the rain. Just the gentle, steady stuff we so desperately need.
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PatBateman
> ttyymmnn
11/05/2014 at 11:14 |
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I was actually hoping for an epically heavy rain to get the LCRA lakes up a bit more. I hate to say it, but flooding is a good thing for Austin/the Hill Country right now. A lot of it will run down stream, but much of it would bring LT up.
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MrPseudonym
> ttyymmnn
11/05/2014 at 11:29 |
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Hence the fuck yes :)
itranthelasttimeiparkedit
> MrPseudonym
11/05/2014 at 11:32 |
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fuck I have to drive all over town today...
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MrPseudonym
> itranthelasttimeiparkedit
11/05/2014 at 11:34 |
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Haha yeah, from Seattle area (small town of Woodinville, now famous for their whiskey and vineyards), and people in Austin seem not to know how to drive in the rain.
Blue 300
> MrPseudonym
11/05/2014 at 11:39 |
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Enjoy the best part in the video as an eternal loop.
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ttyymmnn
> PatBateman
11/05/2014 at 11:45 |
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They teased us with a possible 8" inches overnight. When I woke up, I had an alert on my phone: "New rainfall record set at Del Valle of .85 inches." Welcome to Austin.
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PatBateman
> ttyymmnn
11/05/2014 at 12:07 |
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It seems like damn near every major storm front that comes out of the NW just breaks up around Austin.
TxBrumski
> MrPseudonym
11/05/2014 at 12:15 |
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Meanwhile, in North Austin...
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ttyymmnn
> PatBateman
11/05/2014 at 12:42 |
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Yup. It drives me bonkers. I think we're just too far down on the tail end of the storms. Dallas gets pounded, and we get a sprinkle—if we're lucky. My wife is convinced that it's the star on the map that makes the rain miss Austin.
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PatBateman
> ttyymmnn
11/05/2014 at 13:06 |
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I'd actually contend that it's some kind of updraft from the start of the hill country just west of Austin that is partly to blame. A few years ago, I remember some of the local meteorologists trying to make heads or tails of it and that was one of the theories. Really, the culprit might as well be pixie dust in the atmosphere, because no one could definitively list the actual causes.
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PatBateman
> MrPseudonym
11/05/2014 at 13:07 |
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Considering the drought, I think they've FORGOTTEN how to drive in the rain.
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ttyymmnn
> PatBateman
11/05/2014 at 13:09 |
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I think IH-35 has something to do with it also. How often have you heard, "Greater rainfall totals will be found along and east of the IH-35 corridor." Let's keep our fingers crossed for an El Niño winter.