Aw Hail!
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
Well, it hailed some mighty fierce tonight. Golf ball sized in some places, and it didn't take long for it to pop up with on the ground reports here on the Internets. About.com's Austin section has a report with some pictures here.
I was actually driving with some friends (after having watched one of them get a tatoo on his back) over to Kerbey Lane on Kerbey Lane when we ran into the rain front. And then the hail front. We couldn't even see the hood of the car through the windshield. So after some screaming and such we drove off the side of the road, into a parking lot, and took refuge behind the side of a building. Twice.
Talk about a flash flood, I've never seen something that fierce in Austin, the Hill Country yes, but not here. I think the streets really highlight the runoff affect. I'm hoping that my father's campaign yardsigns survived the attack out in Fredericksburg. I'll try to have a report tomorrow.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at March 26, 2005 12:57 AM
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The best advice about downtown during heavy rain: stay away from the accumulating reservoir at 7th & Lamar! Some years back Cheapo disks had to use their collection of band uniforms to keep the flood out. I don't know if it's still there, but for a long time you could see the dark line about three feet up the side of the building which marked the water high point.
