Posted on 05/25/2015 10:07:10 AM PDT by bgill
Just found out another friend lost their river home...in Wimberley. Completely destroyed.
hope all is ok, looks like Austin got hit all day today. Storm should be here in 45 minutes, the thunder is really loud. hope all goes ok here
Oh, my. Everyone in Central Texas should keep an eye out.
The Llano river has reached flood stage. Floodgate operations are in progress at Wirtz, Starcke and Tom Miller dams. Starcke has 5 of 10 gates open.
This is Monday, 8:22pm, was under severe thunderstorm/tornado watch most of the day. The storm fronts were coming from the west, Johnny got it in Fort Worth, then it (actually two storm fronts went through) came to Denton and us in Lewisville.
Yesterday, Sunday, we had sunshine, the first in a number of days, and we went to Johnny’s house to help him. Today, we haven’t left the house due to tornado watch and storms. Our lake, Lake Lewisville, is overflowing.
A couple of days ago, we went to a casino in Oklahoma, just past the Texas border. The Red River is everywhere, overflowing. Every creek/body of water we passed, was flooding out of its banks. All that was before the rain these past two days.
This has not happened here in the past 30 years and I don’t know if it has happened before then.
So many people are without homes that were completely destroyed by tornados or flood water. I read on TV station, 500 homes in Wimberley were moved off their foundations.
This is a terrible thing for all these people.
“And my rheumatiz is acting up. I feel like the Tin Man and need to go find my oil can.”
You are 60 miles east of Dallas, I am 20 miles north of Dallas, and my knees have been hurting for two days so I could use that oil can when you find it.
We needed to go see Johnny (JRandomFreeper) yesterday and I put a stretch brace on both knees so I wouldn’t hurt so much when I walked. I said it must be the weather for both of them to hurt at the same time (not much cushion left in both knees between the bones).
Dang, Marcella...I had no idea you were that close. If there is anything I can do to help out JRandom...please let me know. I work in Dallas so it would be no big deal. It always makes me happy to see him post.
I have friends on Lewisville and they are about to drown! The biggest problem I seem to be having is...after these last years of drought...the trees are weakened. We have rain like this...down they come. I had two huge trees come down this afternoon. Makes me very sad.
It’s too bad we can’t bottle some of this rain and let it out in August!
OK, thanks. Not sure what if anything that contributes to this conversation.
About as much as saying that levees were mostly in rural areas.
This has not happened here in the past 30 years and I don’t know if it has happened before then.
Having only lived in Texas for the last ten years, I have no experience with the extreme level of rainfall we're seeing now. I remember monsoon rains from my childhood as an Army brat in the Far East, but nothing else I've seen can compare.
Just months ago, Lake Ray Hubbard and Lake Lavon were both painfully low, but now, they're both having to open their spillways to exhaust excess water. Amazing, considering how low they both were just months ago.
My wife and I have been itching to get down to the Trinity Range (below Dallas) to do some shooting, but we know that it's so wet there, we'd probably get stuck...if not swallowed up by all the water coming down the east fork of the Trinity River. Our range time will have to wait until that area dries out considerably - which may take a month or more.
I was reading online today, and the report said that mid-Oklahoma has received over 13 inches of rain this May. And we think we're overburdened in North Texas with just 7 inches!
I join in prayer for all the ones suffering from these storms.
Bob has lived in Lewisville for 30 years and says he has never seen this. We are 12 miles from town of Denton. He is an earth scientist/geologist, and picked the lot to build this house based on the elevation and what’s below the ground - we aren’t going to flood.
Hilly country
Thanks for the ping and that link.
Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of the greats. I really enjoy his blues guitar.
Hope y’all have fun at the shoot in a couple of weeks.
I can’t make it - too far and too much $.
I wasn't aware of it when I posted that link, but there's a fifty song SRV playlist that automatically plays if your YouTube is set that way. After 'Texas Flood' played, it went right into playing another tune, then another, and so on. I went ahead and left it going for the rest of the evening :-)
We won't be making it to the Shoot this year, either. I just can't spare the bucks for a trip that far this year. We'll get a smaller gathering together at the Trinity Range south of Dallas after it dries out.
"I went ahead and left it going for the rest of the evening"
Me, too. Enjoyed it immensely!
Looking forward to getting together for a local shoot - WHEN IT DRIES OUT, LOL.
However, I'm NOT going to stop working on my ark, nor am I going to take off my swim fins, mask, and snorkel.
;>D
I guess every generation has to learn the hard way that building a house near a river is flirting with death. We once had a vacation home perched well above the Medina River between Bandera and Medina Texas. Many of our friends and neighbors had houses lower along the river.
During the early 1980’s a hurricane went inland into the Texas hill country above San Antonio and dumped 36 inches of rain. That water ran down the valleys such as where the Medina river ran. A 45 foot high wall of water and debris came roaring down the valley, scouring everything in its path. Ancient cypress trees four feet in diameter snapped like toothpicks until none were left standing. Nothing left of the houses but bare slabs - even tile and linoleum were scraped off. The flood scoured an area at least a mile wide. We were lucky, but lost 8 neighbors. I arrived 3 days later to do relief work and heard all kinds of harrowing stories from survivors. The destruction I saw was incredible.
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