Texas DUers

[malaise]

How's the flooding. Looks really bad.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. Last night I got 10" of rain in about 8 hours where I live

Across the river from me they had 18" of rain in 6 hours. Lots of water rescues in my community but no deaths.

I guess I got off lucky.

It's hard to believe this time last year I was grumbling about the drought.

[malaise]

7. Stay safe and

watch out for the mosquitoes

[redqueen]

2. well not as bad as england is having

but not great

we were having such an awful dearth of rain, for the longest time, and now this.

[MagickMuffin]

3. Since you asked

my area of the state has some flooding but not as bad as further south.

I never watch cable news, but happened to stop on Faux Noise because they were covering the floods here in the state.
They were "reporting" on the flood @ Marble Falls. Shepard Smith kept referring to the Colorado River as the Brazos River until the mayor corrected him.
The mayor was in the process of informing him that they were out of fresh drinking water because the water station was destroyed, as the helicopter panned the camera around they noticed a building under water that had an american flag flowing thru the flooded banks of the river, Shep proceeded to interupt the mayor so he could comment on the flag. Never mind that the town of Marble Falls is without drinking water. The FLAG The FLAG!

Shep also made references to towns that are no where close to Marble Falls, such as the people of Waco will be in the path of the runoff. Only thing is Waco is NORTH east of Marble Falls.

Sheesh, haven't they heard of Google earth???


Thanks for asking malaise

[pearl]

4. I'm in Marble Falls

I was up all night but no flooding where I am.

[RogueSpirit]

9. Get outta here! I had no idea there were DU'ers that close!

I live in Burnet and travel through MF every day on my way into work. I crossed the bridge on 281 over the creek at the bottom of the hill (whear Tractor supply and Sonic) about 8am this morning and it looked like a tornado had hit. There was a smashed up limo still in the middle of the road and the creek was barely under the bridge.

[Beausoleil]

5. Waco is NORTH east of Marble Falls

And is on the Brazos. Shep had that fact sequestered up there in his pea-brain and couldn't let go. Austin is downstream from Marble Falls.

[malaise]

8. I hope Shep isn't leading the

blind sheep :D Stay safe. No rain in sight here - hot, hot, hot.

[jobycom]

6. Austin's not flooding, except in the normal low water areas.

When we get a good flood, parts of the city go underwater. A mild flood just fills our creeks and spills into the lower-lying houses. I haven't heard of that happening yet.

Out from Austin, especially northwest, there are a lot of hills, which means a lot of valleys, and the rivers in these valleys are flooding their banks, so their are houses and parts of towns going under. These are swift moving waters, too, not just rising waters, so fatalities are common. People get swept away in cars or just trying to walk across a low water area, only to have the current knock their feet out, or to have the water rapidly rise. Even houses and RVs and mobile homes get floated if they were built in the wrong place. So far there are not reported fatalities from flooding from this latest batch, but it is likely there will be some. There have been a few air rescues already.

The Colorado River flows from the panhandle to the Gulf, and there are a series of towns along it, including Austin. It is heavily dammed around here, and that controls some of the flooding, but when the tributary system fills up too quickly, towns below Austin get flooded. That's a fear. They are already opening floodgates and trying to control the runoff. We are ten inches above our annual rainfall already, in Austin. This comes on the heels of many years of drought, so people have built in flood plains not knowing they could flood. The good news is that the rivers and lake beds and aquifers were so low that there is more room than normal to put all the rain.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. It's flooded in Oklahomosity too.

Last nite on the TV they showed a rescue of two people in a car up there.
They said OKC had had rain for two straight weeks, every day and they had gotten ten inches of rain total.

I doubt it will wash away any of the permanent bedrock of stupidity. We have our share of that too in Texass.

[MagickMuffin]

11. National Weather Service: Flash Flood Warnings for Tarrant county

EEEK. Here comes the flood...

Luckily I'm on the top of the hill on my street.

[mourningdove92]

12. Oh man, I have never seen it rain this much.

I live about 50 west of Fort Worth, but commute to Fort Worth every day. As I am driving home, barely able to see the road because the rain is coming down so hard, I keep muttering to myself......"In August I will be praying for rain, In August I will be praying for rain" over and over.

Because its true. I have a hard time complaining about rain when I know how hot and dry it can get here. One of those wild fires last year came too close for comfort, soooooo, I am still blessing the rain.

[TexasLady]

13. Where I am, north of Austin

In town, there's one small river that overflows and spills over into the road. The road goes under I35, and I know up to this morning it was closed down. Don't know if it is now. We are supposed to get more later this evening, and into tonight.

One weather guy said that this crap may continue on through the Fourth of July. Hope to GOD he's wrong. Im sick of it. 3 Weeks is plenty. Although the temps have stayed in the 70s and 80s. That part is nice!

At the moment, it's just steamy and sunny. For now...36 hours Ive seen my guage showing about 7-8 inches so far.

[WolverineDG]

14. We've gotten more than usual

here in Laredo. We have to drive to San Antonio tomorrow. If anyone is in that direction, how's it looking? Should we be making plans to over-night it there tomorrow?

dg

[rainbow4321]

15. Kinda hit or miss around here

Parts of Collin County (north of Dallas) are fine, others we are hearing reports of homes flooding (in Celina). Just to the east of us the Garland area got hit pretty bad...National Guard barracks had their troops move their private cars cuz the parking lot was flooded over, they were waiting to see if they would need to evacuate and move their emergency/rescue vehicles to higher ground this morning.
I wish people would start to use more common sense...too many high water rescue (from cars on KNOWN flood prone streets) reports on the radio and too many kids playing down by their neighborhood creeks that are normally calm streams but with the flooding it's a whole other story---kids are being swept away and drowning..latest was a 13 yr old boy in Garland last night. Another was walking along a flooded waterway with his family (dad included) and slipped into the rough waters with no one noticing til it was too late.
Scares me with the 4th of July around the corner that we will see more water deaths. Several lakes are shutting down their docks because of the flooding...hopefully people will heed the advice of the lake officials and not go where they shouldn't!
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Found this..the father of the dead 13 yr old is blaming the rescuers for his death. Maybe he should have made his child stay INside during the storm and away from a bed of water.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/062807dnmetgarfolo.1e043fa7.html

“The rescue men killed my boy,” said Guillermo Yat, 51. Young William Griffin had fallen into the rain-swollen creek around 8 p.m. Tuesday and was holding on to a bridge support beneath Miller Road. It was when he reached for a rope thrown by a rescuer that he lost his grip, said Mr. Yat, who had been alerted by one of his son’s playmates and witnessed what happened.


Mr. Yat said that instead of tossing a rope, one of the firefighters should have secured himself with a rope and gone into the creek to save the boy.

“We’re not going to put ourselves at risk by going into the water,” Mr. Balanciere said. “We can’t, because then we’re in a situation where we have to rescue the rescuer.”

He said the ambulance crew that threw William the rope had been trying to help him maintain his position while rescuers took up positions downstream.

[snappyturtle]

16. We live a quarter mile from the Guadalupe River....I went out this

morning before 8:00 and the "old bridge" was completely under water....the new bridge is still a low water crossing and it was OK then, although the river was rushing! My husband, who is a 30 year resident of the area, says, as do others, they've never seen so much rain as we have been getting this year....everything is very green and our garden is producing gang busters....we have been land locked twice lately though with other rainy periods. Including a photobucket slideshow of last storm that flooded our low crossing and the accompanying wind damage to our stone storage building...

http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w150/snappyturtle/?action=view¤t=def53c55.pbw

The last picture shows, if you look hard, the parts of giant cypress trees that were thrown by the force of the water into the side of the bridge. This was two days after the storm....the road was covered too and the water was about fifteen feet from the little house on the upper right...it came fast.