Hurricane Ike- what does this forecast mean for Austin? (Houston: how much, live)

[Mckellyb]

We were in Jamestown, VA, when Ernesto came ashore in '06. I just thought I'd seen excessive rain in the past.

Nothing like 8-10 inches in a 24 hour period. The place in which we were staying literally became a lake which looked deep enough to be a PWC (Jet Ski) playground.

As long as Ike leaves Tina, the oil rigs, alone, we'll all be fine.

"Left a good job in the city...."

Sorry, I couldn't help it. I fixed my car's A/C today, of course it has an empty 24 gallon tank, so I'm trying to avoid needing a small loan to fill it. My wife's car never has issue one which goes 12 hours without me fixing it. :-)

[TexasHorseLady]

I'm finding myself thinking of last summer, with 19 inches in 4 hours in Marble Falls. We had a light pitter patter rain here, but upstream (a creek runs through our property), they got 9 inches in the same 4 hours, and the creek came WAY above the hundred year flood plain and flooded our storm shelter.

I'd be more concerned about associated tornadoes.

[Mckellyb]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

I'm finding myself thinking of last summer, with 19 inches in 4 hours in Marble Falls. We had a light pitter patter rain here, but upstream (a creek runs through our property), they got 9 inches in the same 4 hours, and the creek came WAY above the hundred year flood plain and flooded our storm shelter.

I'd be more concerned about associated tornadoes.

I've heard about that, and honestly, having been in 3 inch/hour rain one time, for about six minutes, I can't/don't want to imagine it for much longer.

It was very much like being under a waterfall.

[another_hot-day]

FYI - RRISD has moved all Varsity games to tonight and cancelled JV and freshman games that would have been tonight.

[love roses]

From the stormpulse site it looks like it will miss even East of Austin now. It looks like they have it hitting Freeport and completely missing the entire Austin area, so I wouldn't expect any rain at all.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by artifice

Jim Spencer is that you? Don't tease us! Rain we need the winds and tornadoes not so much...

Funny, I know Jim Spencer, from his days at KTEN in Ada, Oklahoma where we worked together. I emailed him a few years ago after seeing him on the Weather channel; he's the same really nice guy.

We've been getting rain here in the DFW area for the last few days. This afternoon was the first time I've seen the sun in that time. It looks to be an interesting weekend.

However, the storm track is predicted to move farther east, which will still include the DFW area but it looks like Austin won't be affected too much.

But, those are just predictions.

[jread]

Originally Posted by love roses

From the stormpulse site it looks like it will miss even East of Austin now. It looks like they have it hitting Freeport and completely missing the entire Austin area, so I wouldn't expect any rain at all.

I called it! Where's my prize?

[parkk]

I posted on wrong topic

[artifice]

Originally Posted by Synopsis

Funny, I know Jim Spencer, from his days at KTEN in Ada, Oklahoma where we worked together. I emailed him a few years ago after seeing him on the Weather channel; he's the same really nice guy.

We've been getting rain here in the DFW area for the last few days. This afternoon was the first time I've seen the sun in that time. It looks to be an interesting weekend.

However, the storm track is predicted to move farther east, which will still include the DFW area but it looks like Austin won't be affected too much.

But, those are just predictions.

Yeah Yeah rub it in that you are getting rain
I heard about this time once a long, long, long time ago in Austin when this wet stuff fell from the sky... Oh well sprinkler system back on.
Does anybody know if the left over of Lowell from the other side will do anything? Like rain in Austin please.

[Raskolnikov]

okay so are we going to get rains or not? This storm is huge, it's taking up the entire gulf of Mexico!