[No Blue States]

Stinking caps...

EMERGENCY RELEASES FROM THE DAM AT LAKE LIVINGSTON WILL CAUSE RAPID RISES ON THE TRINITY RIVER BELOW LAKE LIVINGSTON.

A MANDATORY EVACUATION HAS BEEN DECLARED FOR PORTIONS OF POLK...SAN JACINTO...AND LIBERTY COUNTIES BELOW LAKE LIVINGSTON. PERSONS ARE URGED TO STAY AWAY FROM THE RIVER
UNTIL WATER LEVELS RECEDE.

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/tx/flood.html

[RoseofTexas]

Lake Charles doesn't look good, still pouring rain and wind....BIG TIME! God please subside this storm!

[Miss Marple]

Adam Housley is in Lake Charles, and it looks pretty bad there. Lots of water and they are still getting pretty strong wind.

Also, Housley is actually reporting, and has his hood up (rather than a baseball cap). No hysterics. Good job, Adam!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I knew it had to deal with the dam, but I didn't get to stay long enough (hubby was working on getting me upstairs to look at what he found at the green dump where he gets our firewood) to check.

[No Blue States]

Lake Livingston Dam during a previous flood:

[conservative in nyc]

Liberty, Texas. Lake Livingston is the blue thing to the East of Huntsville. The Trinity River basically runs from it, through Liberty, to Northern Galveston Bay almost directly to the South: