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36 minutes ago, TXLNGHRN10 said:

City of Leander posted that they are going stage 4 restrictions, no irrigation what so ever for the next month
so no more rain would only make sense

 

Yes but that's due to some water main issue... not related to the drought.  But yes, craptacular timing.

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13 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Yes but that's due to some water main issue... not related to the drought.  But yes, craptacular timing.

It's terrible timing for sure, they should have figured out a way to delay the work for just one more month.

But, it's also nice to see them proactively doing maintenance on a still-functioning system, rather than waiting for things to completely break down, like other nearby municipalities I might mention...

 

Edit: Oh, and for CP water customers at least, it doesn't start until Sep 21 and lasts through Oct 4.  So the timing is bad, but could be worse, and the duration is manageable.

 

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Just now, utee94 said:

It's terrible timing for sure, they should have figured out a way to delay the work for just one more month.

But, it's also nice to see them proactively doing maintenance on a still-functioning system, rather than waiting for things to completely break down, like other nearby municipalities I might mention...

 

I lived in Houston when one of the water mains broke that supplied water to half the city.  You should have seen the run on bottled water at grocery stores.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/27/water-main-break-houston-what-you-need-know/

 

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2 hours ago, texasdago said:

I lived in Houston when one of the water mains broke that supplied water to half the city.  You should have seen the run on bottled water at grocery stores.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/27/water-main-break-houston-what-you-need-know/

 

This hits close to home.

I lived in Austin when there was a glass raw material shortage. You should have seen the run on Topo Chico at HEB.

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1 hour ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

So we get two weeks of rain in August and then it turns into second summer? At least it's cooling off. The forecast continues to be 0% chance of rain.

Austin weather is the worst.

We made it that way to keep the yankees and Californians away, but it hasn't worked.

Also, it's never going to rain again.

 

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Comal flow down to 91 cfs. Last year on this day was 242 cfs (normal range).

The swift water rescue training is going to have to change its name. The firemen and policemen with their vests   Will have to scootch their way down the chute. 
 

Don’t care who to pray or plead to, but O Comalita give us rain. Maybe the gods will listen if we quit watering our lawns every two days. 

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the entire Western US: what is this rain thing that they speak of???????

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/11/rain-increasing-climate-change-us/

A paper published Tuesday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds that it’s raining harder in most of the United States. The study, written by researchers at Northwestern University, tied the results to climate change and to warmer air’s ability to hold more water.

The findings echo the fundamental laws of physics and thermodynamics, as well as the evidence from decades of research, and highlight the real-time effect that humans are having on the weather and climate.

The research offers confirmation of what atmospheric scientists have been warning of for years: a warmer world is, on balance, a wetter world. And as global temperatures continue to rise, an uptick in precipitation extremes is expected.

The study reports “consistent shifts from lower to higher daily precipitation intensities, particularly in the central and eastern United States.” The authors compared rainfall over two periods — 1951 to 1980 and 1991 to 2020 — to see how patterns evolved.

“When it’s raining, it’s raining more,” said Ryan Harp, the author lead author on the study, in an interview. “But what we also did was … we were able to verify some of the expectations we had based on modeling studies.”

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