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by aeden » Sat Jul 12, 2025 12:41 pm
by Higgenbotham » Sat Jul 12, 2025 10:59 am
Texas Storm Chasers 3d · Catastrophic Central Texas Flooding: Rainfall Recap (July 3–7, 2025) The numbers are in—and they're staggering. Over the Independence Day weekend, historic rainfall led to catastrophic flooding across the HIll Country and Central Texas. Some areas saw more than 20 inches of rain in just a few days. Below is a list of the highest observed totals from this event: Preliminary Rainfall Totals Bertram 8 SSW – 20.92" Liberty Hill – 20.55" Streeter 4 NW – 20.33" Marble Falls 14 ESE – 18.50" Hext – 18.49" Lago Vista 8 NW – 18.38" Balcones NW – 17.69" Wall – 17.50" Oatmeal 1.7 S – 17.09" Leander 6.4 WNW – 15.27" San Angelo – 13.51" Burnet 5 NNW – 13.41" Ingram 5.5 W – 11.68" Mason 15 W – 10.11" Llano 14 WNW – 9.62" Seguin 0.6 SE – 9.26" Austin 1.6 E – 8.78" Sisterdale 8.9 SSE – 6.77" This graphic from the National Weather Service shows just how widespread and intense this event was, especially across the Hill Country and I-35 corridor. Many rivers remain high, and saturated ground means even minor storms could renew flooding. Stay weather-aware, especially in flood-prone zones. Data collected from July 3 through the evening of July 7, 2025. Most prolific rainfall occurred between July 3–5.
Higgenbotham wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 1:43 pm As of now, 24 hours later, water can still be seen when digging down to a depth of 9-12 inches. That might be OK if there is no more heavy rain; seems borderline to me.
by Higgenbotham » Sun Jul 06, 2025 7:53 pm
FullMoon wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 7:42 pm Be safe and the flooding seems scary being far away from there. I stayed on vacation once where a flash flood warning went into effect on very short notice and it was both scary and good that we knew something could be coming. I've seen reports that no notice or minimal impact level notice was given in your State of Texas and that was potentially a reason why there were many people and belongings swept away. What information do you have regarding this?
A July 1987 flood of the Guadalupe River devastated Kerrville and other communities along the waterway.
According to our location National Weather Service office, the number of flash flood incidents from 1996-2020 South Central Texas in May was 498, that rises to 506 in June and down to 430 in July. These three months have the highest number of flash flood incidents in South Central Texas compared with any other month of the year.
by FullMoon » Sun Jul 06, 2025 7:42 pm
by Higgenbotham » Sun Jul 06, 2025 1:43 pm
Higgenbotham wrote: Tue May 06, 2025 5:00 pm Higgenbotham wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 9:24 pm But what I can say is that there seem to be indications, despite the natural tendency of people affected by the weather to complain about it, that growing food has become more difficult. There's been news that that is happening with tomatoes, coffee and cocoa on a worldwide basis now. I'm working hard to make adaptations to that, to become resilient to weather extremes in both temperature and precipitation. My goal in designing these pits was to be able to handle a 4 inch or so 12 hour or so rain without flooding them and to hold that water for the dry periods. Also to be able to carry a heat resistant tomato variety through 95 degree heat and still produce. We should see some tests of that in the next 4 months and I'll talk about it once these extremes are seen. There was a test of precipitation extremes over about a 16 hour period ending this morning. While there was flooding in the yard, the pits were able to absorb about 3 inches of rain without showing any standing water after the downpour ended. There's no rain in the 10 day forecast so this could be the heaviest downpour this year. Some future years will probably be worse but, now that this test has passed, it seems OK to expand the garden in the same way it has been done so far.
Higgenbotham wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 9:24 pm But what I can say is that there seem to be indications, despite the natural tendency of people affected by the weather to complain about it, that growing food has become more difficult. There's been news that that is happening with tomatoes, coffee and cocoa on a worldwide basis now. I'm working hard to make adaptations to that, to become resilient to weather extremes in both temperature and precipitation. My goal in designing these pits was to be able to handle a 4 inch or so 12 hour or so rain without flooding them and to hold that water for the dry periods. Also to be able to carry a heat resistant tomato variety through 95 degree heat and still produce. We should see some tests of that in the next 4 months and I'll talk about it once these extremes are seen.
by spottybrowncow » Tue Jun 24, 2025 1:02 pm
by aeden » Mon Jun 23, 2025 1:54 pm
by spottybrowncow » Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:27 pm
by Higgenbotham » Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:31 pm
spottybrowncow wrote: Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:13 pm Thank you, Higgy. I follow the archdruid sporadically, but I always respect his opinions. This was really interesting, although I'm not sure I (or he) got any solid answers. I still contend that the Socratic ideal is the ultimate guide for living one's life (earthly life, Jesus Christ notwithstanding). While opinions may vary on the interpretation of this, my take is "Never let anyone convince you that something is true, unless it is apparent to you upon examination of the available evidence that it is so." That has never failed me.
by spottybrowncow » Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:13 pm
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