Holy Freeze Alert Batman

[bluedogok]

Tropical Storm Hermine was just over one year ago, that was our last significant rainfall since the rains in the spring of 2007 that broke our previous two year drought.

[Thunder]

Since we are on the 2nd page, I am going to repost this to easily show everyone.

OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THURSDAY!!!

[Tydude]

this is from KOCO 5 7 day forcast love the weather that is happening

[BlackmoreRulz]

Dang, highs in the low 60's may have to put long pants on again for the first time since March

[Thunder]

Dang, highs in the low 60's may have to put long pants on again for the first time since March

LOL! I have been wearing pants more often than shorts during the whole summer. :-P

[Larry OKC]

Seriously? The whole summer? i can understand the past few days but we have had a higher than normal summer breaking our previous record of 100+ heat days (and counting), and you have been wearing pants more than shorts? I rarely wear shorts and have been practically living in them this summer.

[Thunder]

Yeah, pants and shorts isn't really much difference to me.

[windowphobe]

Then how many more dry years can Austin go without running out of water? That almost happened to Atlanta.

Not too many. One of the two major lakes is near normal levels, but the other is almost 50 feet down. Water rates, incidentally, will rise in November, and they will be tiered: your first thousand gallons will run a little over a buck, but your twenty-sixth will cost you nearly $12. (Plus all the usual ways that utility bills are padded, of course.)

[bluedogok]

Then we have some idiot city council members who want to consider the already under construction water treatment plant out near Lake Travis after already spending many millions on it. There are the "no growth" people who are pretty much against everything that hints of growth or improving the city in the hopes that they can take Austin back to what it was when they were in college. This city council election cycle put them in place, the next election cycle will be another overreaction again, one extreme to the other down here.