Hey Pfolks, welcome to the week of March 16, 2026.

Spring Break is here, St. Patrick’s Day is today, and we’re still riding out Stage 3 water restrictions, with some unfortunate updates—but there’s plenty of pfun to be had close to home.

Also this week:

The City of Pflugerville is still under Stage 3 emergency water restrictions, and as of Tuesday, March 17 a fifth break in the raw waterline has stopped flow to Lake Pflugerville yet again.

I don’t know about you, but I’m not thrilled with this news.

All City water customers are being asked to cut back even more: no outdoor watering, plus extra indoor conservation like reusing clean gray water when possible, turning off taps while brushing or washing, catching rainwater for non‑drinking uses, and delaying laundry or dishwasher runs.

For the full list of rules, maps, and live updates, check the City’s Stage 3 information page.

Not sure if you’re affected? All City of Pflugerville Water customers are. Check this map if you’re not sure if you’re on city water.

You may have seen mentions of Flock cameras popping up around Central Texas. Pflugerville has a contract worth $73,500 annually with Flock and has since 2022.

It’s worth reading through this Reddit thread with detailed notes from the March 10th City Council meeting for more details. Whether you agree with using Flock for surveillance or not, it’s worth being informed and having your voice heard.

You’re in luck! From 7:00pm to 8:00pm on March 17th Silver Thistle Pipes, a marching band that performs Irish and Scottish music, will be marching in Katherine Fleischer Park.

Even though it’s technically not part of Pflugerville, Katherine Fleischer Park is minutes away over by Wells Branch.

So get your corned beef and hash and come on out. This event is free and for all ages.

Picture this: The pre-summer heat is bearing down on you. You’re sweating. Vision blurry. Looking for an oasis where none can be found.

And then suddenly…

I scream.

You scream.

We all scream

…for Chicos ice cream.

Too dramatic?

I say not dramatic enough. After all, since today had a low of ~43° you’ve probably lost your heat tolerance. And we’re expecting temperatures in the high 90s later this week.

Add to that the fact that Spring officially starts on Friday (March 20th), plus the kiddos are on Spring Break right now…and there’s a non-zero chance they’ll be running around screaming at some point.

Luckily, there’s a 100% chance ice cream is delicious.

So why not grab a mango sorbet, milk shake, or scoop of one of Chicos’ 50 flavors of ice cream?

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If your business is humming along and you’re not stressed and overworked, you probably don’t need my help. If you could use more customers or clients, or you need help but can’t afford to hire, I might be able to help.

I’m terrible at sales but great at marketing. So no high pressure calls from me.

For pfamilies, pfriends, and pf-everyone else.

Go to our Events page, where we have a growing list of links to events calendars all around town.

We’ll celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the traditional Texas sun and (surprisingly) temperatures below 70. But then we’re back to normal and almost kissing triple digits by Saturday.

☀️ Tue 3/17: Sunny 68°/45° 🍀
☀️ Wed 3/18: Sunny 81°/52°
☀️ Thu 3/19: Sunny 88°/57°
☀️ Fri 3/20: Sunny 93°/60°
☀️ Sat 3/21: Sunny 96°/62°
☀️ Sun 3/22: Sunny 95°/62°
🌤️ Mon 3/23: Partly Cloudy 90°/62°

Send all requests for better weather to weather.com

It probably won’t shock you to find out that when Pflugerville was settled in 1849 there was no water infrastructure. But that wasn’t a big deal, since the city’s population didn’t even get to above 500 people until about 1970 and people were able to get by with wells up until then.

In fact, the first water tower (pictured above) wasn’t even built until the 1930’s, and it only held 50,000 gallons of water. It’s kind of crazy to realize that it was the only elevated water storage all the way until 1985—especially since the census in 1990 put the Pflugerville population at a suspiciously convenient 4,444 residents.

This first water tower was decommissioned in the 1990s. And now, if you try to use the Pflugerville water tower as a landmark, you’ll probably notice that we actually have 5 water towers, and no one knows which one you’re referring to.

These are slightly bigger than the original and can hold 4.6 million gallons of water. In addition, Pflugerville has the capacity for 6 million gallons of water in ground storage.

While that might sound like a lot, residents and the city use more than 5 million gallons per day (MGD)! The recently added temporary bypass waterline is able to supply 8MGD from the Colorado River and will definitely solve this for us. We had our 5th water line break today and so Lake Pflugerville is not currently getting fed more water.

However, due to drought, Lake Pflugerville, our water reservoir and main source of water (developed in 2005/2006 and which can hold up to approximately 554 million gallons of water) is hundreds of millions gallons short from sustainable levels—especially heading into Summer.

This leaves our water source at a shortfall that might take 60+ days to recover from. Good news is that we’re continuing to invest in water infrastructure as we continue to grow.

TLDR; Don’t expect a green lawn this year…we’ll be in stage 3 water restrictions for quite a while.

Spring Break is also a good time to sneak in some good deeds between park days and pub crawls. Here are a few ways to plug in locally:

If you know of other volunteer opportunities you’d like me to list, email me at [email protected] to let me know!

Let me know!

If you’ve got an event, job opening, or something else you’d like to our community to be part of, email me at [email protected].

I’ll do my best to include it in the relevant issue. Normal caveats apply: nothing political, hateful, divisive, etc. I’ll do my best to make that call without bias.