[HCARC] BIG RAIN

[Gary Johnson]

Water at Verde Creek on Elm Pass Rd (also locally known as Frank KK5IA’s QTH) was over the bridge at some point last night.  My 11 inch rain gauge overflowed so I am not totally accurate in my rainfall amount.  There is 9 1/2 inches in a trash can and 9 3/4 inches in two 5 gallon buckets, so I will go with 9 5/8 inches.  Not sure why the rain gauge overflowed, but come to think of it I might have forgotten to empty it the other day – I was in a hurry.

To put this in perspective @325,851 gallons per acre foot of water, on my 6.89 acres 1,690,000  gallons fell.  AMAZING BUT TRUE.  That is equal to the amount of water my neighbor and I pump through his well equaling  10 years water usage.

So much rain fell about half way from Center Point to Kerrville off of Hwy 27 that it has completely filled one of the sand and gravel quarries.  A new community lake.

Gary J
N5BAA

From: Bob Richie 
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2016 10:00 AM
To: Dale Gaudier 
Cc: Gary Johnson ; hcarc at mailman.qth.net 
Subject: Re: [HCARC] BIG RAIN

I reported 4.09 inches to CoCo HRaS this morninhg. Some low water crossings in the area still closed 
 
Bob Richie K5YB
830 285 0917
Kerrville TX 78028
  
  
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 8:33 AM
From: "Dale Gaudier" <dale.gaudier at gmail.com>
To: "Gary Johnson" <n5baa at hctc.net>
Cc: "hcarc at mailman.qth.net" <hcarc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [HCARC] BIG RAIN
2.68" at QRT Ranch (12 miles south of Kerrville) since rain began Saturday evening.

Dale - K4DG

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> On May 29, 2016, at 3:07 AM, Gary Johnson <n5baa at hctc.net> wrote:
>
> Not quite sure how much we have gotten as rain gauge overflowed, but I went out to check creek in valley below my home and the 2 ft wide creek is about 165 feet wide right now and it is raining hard again with more coming according to radar. My guess is over 9 inches since a couple of new 32 gallon trash cans are about 40% filled with water. They have sloping sides, but it’s still a lot of water. Someone down stream has water in their house tonight. Might be interesting over towards Comfort.
>
> Gary J
> N5BAA
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