niner21 wrote:Belmer wrote:niner21 wrote:I'll bet that we get a dusting of rain and that's it.
Greetings niner21,
You posted this on Sunday. Thought I would go back now and comment.
Hope you didn't make a bet on anyone with this.
That's what I call reverse weather psychology!!!! Usually when they call for huge rain, we get zilch. Call for 30%, we get a colorado river in my back yard.
Take it easy on this Texas State Grad!! (It was Southwest Texas when I was there in 1999). It was the best 4 years of my life so far!!!
Hahaha!! Well then, hello there Bobcat grad. Yes, I have loved it here since I've been here. I didn't like it beginning of my freshman year, but I think that's just adjusting to meeting new people and being away from home and just being on your own. But I love it! San Marcos is a beautiful city with so much to do.
Now, on your reverse weather psychology. I absolutely agree with you. So many times mets have a 90% chance of rain in the forecast, and we see a trace or .25 inches of rain.
I still remember clearly, April 30, 2009. I got home from high school that day and turned on the 4:00pm Local 2 news (like I usually always did). Well, when the weather came on; Frank was talking about how there was a chance of a pop up shower, but mainly south of I-10 and would be nothing to hurt anyone's plans for tonight. He was forecasting in Galveston. His chance of rain for that Friday, April 30 was a 30% chance of hit and miss rain. (NOT STORMS). Well that was also the weekend for my high school's Prom. So I left my house around 5:30-6:00 and while I was leaving Pasadena, I noticed a few flashes of lightning. As I went down 45 South the lightning was still pretty bad, but I didn't think much of it because I thought it would blow over and as the day time heating was wearing off, it would soon die. Little did I know, and I'm sure everyone else, that was the day I won't forget for a very, very long time...
I was in Galveston and I remember eating at iHop and how bad it was lightning in Galveston, but wasn't raining. About that time, my mom called me and told me how she had only been home for 10 minutes from work and she had to leave to go over my grandmoms house (her mom's') to stay over there that night. She called me saying the streets were already flooded, but not real bad in our neighborhood yet, so she was going to try and make the drive over there. She didn't get 1 mile from the house and had to turn around because cars were stranded in water and bayous and ditches came out of their banks. Well, I had to go home that night because I wasn't staying there (in Galveston) that night, because Prom wasn't till Saturday, I just went down there a day before to get some stuff together and have dinner with a few friends. So, at around 9:00pm or so I left Galveston, which was still dry and heading back on 45N. I got around the League City area and it was raining so hard, I could not see the hood of my car. And it was raining so hard, so fast 45 was literally flooded. Like the actual freeway because water couldn't drain off as quick down to the feeder as hard as it was raining. I had to pull over though because I just didn't want to take the chance driving 10mph on 45 and not see anything. Windshield wipers on full blast wasn't doing squat for me. So I got off at a ramp and got onto the feeder, which water I would say was above the curb. I made it to a gas station and parked there for a bit. Rain slowly led up and I got back onto the freeway as things were slowly starting to drain off. Well that was in League City, so I thought things might have been draining off in Pasadena as well. I was wrong. I got to Pasadena and It was another Allison. You talk about major roads that NEVER flood, underwater and cars up halfway on people's cars. Ditches and bayous well out of their banks on Fairmont Pkwy and Beltway 8. It was something I would have never imagined with a "30% chance of rain".
Anyway, sorry this was such a long story, I was just trying to show, that I take 30% chances more seriously than I do 80% chances. I wasn't home in time to watch the 10:00 news, so I didn't get to hear if Frank said anything about how that was such a surprising storm and how it was unexpected. Because it was just that-unexpected. I don't blame him, he put the chance of rain in the forecast, and any meteorologist didn't see that coming. But my car made it fine surprisingly through all of that as I did not want to take my chances to go through any deep water. But man, you talk about a weekend.
That's why I love Mother Nature, she can surprise you at anytime.
If anyone could look up records of rainfall, look up this day. I'm not too sure how to do it... AND I never found out actually how many inches fell that night. So if someone could find that data, I would certainly be interested to know.
I also know we have a few people on this forum that live in Webster, League City, La Porte, Pasadena area as well, so I'm sure y'all remember this storm clearly as well.