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Days since rains began: 44
Homes destroyed by flooding: 1,000
Flood-related deaths: 11
Estimated cost of damages in Burnet County alone: $30 million
Number of emergency Texas National Guard soldiers activated by Governor Perry throughout the state: 250
Total impacted area, spanning North Texas to the Rio Grande Valley, in square miles: 48,000
Height, in feet above sea level, of Lake Travis when considered "full": 681
Height of Lake Travis on July 4th: 701
All-time record height, from Christmas of 1991: 710.44
Floodgates currently open at Mansfield Dam: 4
Discharge capacity of each floodgate, in gallons per second: 35,682
Total inflow of floodwaters through Highland Lakes and Lake Travis, in gallons: 228 billion
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Please keep raining into October...to keep the temperature cool...
Days 'til this round of rain ends and a new drought starts: more than 1, less than 100.
Why do people talk about the temperature sometimes and ask to keep it cool. Here's an idea, move. Did you not know it got hot when you came to TX? Stop raining already, I for one, am ready for my 90 straight days of 100 degree weather and sunshine!!!
One rainy day is nice relief from the heat, but 44? 44 rainy days sucks. Not to mention that people are losing their homes and 11 are dead. Back to hot and dry, please.
Also: tons of rain = abnormally tall grass + heat + dry = big risk of wildfire.
Can we get a stat for how high it will get once all the icecaps have melted?
Here's a further idea: "90 straight days of 100 degree weather and sunshine!!!" is fine if you're near a nice beach. Or even a pretty desert. Not in this Barren Shithole, where even the shitty "lakes" are overflowing with, literally, shit. And if you love skin cancer so much, YOU move. To Somalia.
Every time I see one those local asshole/cunt weatheridiots saying the rain needs to stop, I just feel like mailing them a personalized message, with a homemade bomb.
"Not to mention that people are losing their homes and 11 are dead."
Awww...too bad, my violin of pity is in the shop.
"Also: tons of rain...= big risk of wildfire."
Yes, I know plants are said to have feelings, but how is it that you can type??
"Awww...too bad, my violin of pity is in the shop."
Looks like your sitar of whiney self-righteous hate operating just fine though.
1. Austin is not a barren shithole - there are tons of lush green places you can go, even if it was sunny and hot. My pool works especially well for me. 2. As for liking skin cancer; where did you get that from? I wear sunscreen and re-apply a lot, thanks for trying though. 3. The abundance of rain does displace wildlife and poses a threat to neighborhoods. Wait until anoth kid gets eaten by a coyote and you'll get the idea (maybe we'll be lucky and it will be your kid if we're lucky - God knows we don't need another idiot like you). 4. Back to the original point - if you like rain and think Austin is a barren shithole, why are you here?
Uh, work? family? You're obviously not familiar with either of those things.
Actually, yes, I can't wait til "another kid gets eaten by a coyote" (all because of the rain, no less) - at least the news will be watchable.
Really, where do you morons come from? Are you all spawns of Alberto Gonzales?
Alberto Gonzales? That doesn't even make any sense.
Anyway, I'm definitely digging it being cooler then usual, but this many straight days of rain is beginning to get to me. There's a reason I live in Austin and not Seattle or Portland or some other place in the Pacific Northwest.
Not being able to go to Barton Springs much, or ride my bike whenever the hell I want to, is definitely part of the summer I'm missing. Hopefully it'll get a little less crazy in the weeks to come.
Work? Family? Yeah, got both of those actually and been here for a long time. Lived in Seattle for a while too. Saw a guy step in front of a bus one day after 132 days of rain, moved home after that. Why don't you move there if you don't like sun, fun and Austin? And Alberto Gonzales? WTF was that? You really are an idiot aren't you?
Oh yeah, still no skin cancer after 30 plus years living in this barren shithole with great lakes and creeks and outdoor activities.
well this may be a total non sequitur considering the rest of the comments, but i'd just like to say thanks for compiling this info. i've been curious about some of this stuff, but i still haven't found rainfall totals listed in detail. this article mentions a few, but i was hoping for some more data.