A line of afternoon storms from San Angelo, TX to Omaha, NE. It's that time of year here on the prairie.
I remember working in Omaha in the Spring....
You'd feel a cold blast of air and something like this would roll in; you could smell it...
Finally got the mower fired off last week. Took one of my GPS batteries to get it going as two of them were 9mos old and the one in the mower was probably 3yrs old. Still good enough to provide 3.5v to my PM3s on a reducer.
Got 50% of my yard mowed. Leaving a strip on the ridge out at the road to slow down the water into the yard and make it go farther down the road.
The highway r/w can wait, still not dry enough in the channel to mow yet.
The lake is so full that much more rain will end boat traffic under Hwy 8 bridge. All the county controlled boat ramps and camping areas have been closed all this year. Never understood why they close access to the lake when there is plenty of water to get around taking all the shortcuts.
They are getting to where they only open the ramps when the water is so low the vegetation clogs the prop.
My thought is that they are afraid that some fisherman will hide out in the woods and drink a beer in the shade while waiting on their trot line to fill up.
Let it rain, maybe it will keep the water up and choke out all that vegetation buildup. It really opened up the bottoms after the other big rises 15yrs and 25yrs ago.
"And I'll hang around as long as you will let me. And I never minded standing in the rain."
Steve Goodman & John Prine
I thought the satellite photo was even more impressive:
Weather forecasters nailed it at my house. Earlier they said thunderstorms would start at 9:15 p.m. They only missed it by 10 minutes. 9:25 was the first drop hitting the metal roof. One of the red dots is directly on top of me right now.
Woke up at 1:55am
Electricity flicks off on off on
Make haste to shut down fridge & AC, computers
One decides to do updates OMG now, windows sux agin
El3c now off for good
Find flashlights, 12v lawn tractor battery, christmas ligft string, 12 to 120 converter
12:07am blast of wind hits that makes trees slap tops & limbs and a few m8nutes later high speed rains Slowed down quickly into steady downpour
Lights up, candle in bathrooms lit
3am and I want a beer, oh well
NE Texas sounds like a exiting place; now about that lake, would you say this lake runs fairly shallow and exactly what brand of vegetation is growing in it?
Since October 2012, giant salvinia has been found at boat ramps and spreading across Lake O' the Pines, Lake Wright Patman, Lake Gilmer and Lake Murval.
They keep Wright Patman around 220msl and it should be around 235msl. At 220 it can be dangerous just trying to stay within a boat channel and then the vegetation has began to shut off access to many parts of the lake.
If it keeps up will take an air boat to get anywhere.
Then there are the zebra mussels...........
Many fishermen and water sporters been too lazy to clean boats between visiting different lakes.
Then there are the zebra mussels...........
Those things wreak havoc something fierce with water supplies, especially in fire sprinkler piping.
