Posted on 05/26/2015 7:31:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Homecoming queen. Student council president. Star athlete.
Her storied high school career was nearing an end with one final rite of passage: her senior prom. But as Ramirez, 18, was driving home from the prom over the weekend, her car was swept away by floodwater in southern Texas, ending her short but illustrious life.
“She did the right things,” her aunt Roberta Ramirez told CNN affiliate WOAI. “She called 911. She called her father, but it was just too much and too quick.”
Ramirez is one of six people who died in Texas and Oklahoma in the past four days as epic rainfall and flooding wracked both states.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
3 people dead in Houston due to overnight flooding. Police just found dead body in a car in SW Houston.
If you want to see what 8” of rain in 3 hours can do to a low-elevation city, check out the Houston Chronicle website. It’s amazing not more people were drowned in their cars.
Very Sad
Surprising that we’ve haven’t heard that “it’s all Bush’s fault...”
Amazing pics
Should the school have cancelled the prom? Seems pretty stupid having kids driving about, at night, some drunk or high, when flash floods are due.
That was my first thought. Parents should have stood and been parents and not allowed their kids to drive through all these storms. Many schools are closed today calling a weather day and others delayed opening two hours no one was driving in the dark.
Here, I was checking our low water crossing before the emergency phone system called to say no driving in the county due to low water crossings flooding. Was called again two hours later because a tornado was on the ground. The river had hit flood stage and dams had gates open. We didn't get half of what Houston did so why the school held the prom is crazy and irresponsible.
Class 3 rapids on Braes Bayou!
TX Gov Abbott declared a state of disaster for Archer, Bastrop, Caldwell, Cass, Collin, Dewitt, Fannin, Grayson, Harrison, Hays, Henderson, Hidalgo, Hill, Houston, Kendall, Jasper, Johnson, Newton, Nueces, Parker, San Jacinto, Walker, Wichita and Wilson counties and will probably name more this week.
Downtown Austin had chest high water in businesses. Those waters are moving toward Bastrop.
A small tornado hit near grown kiddo’s place.
I looked at articles from Saturday, and there were tornado warnings too in the area. Not sure when the prom started though. Article first posted at 830am (later edited) http://www.ksat.com/content/pns/ksat/news/2015/05/23/heavy-rainfall-sweeping-through-san-antonio.html
It really is tragic and I hope the authorities learn from this. Flash flooding is extremely dangerous as when conditions are ripe, it can hit in specific spots with little to no warning.
Had one coming straight for us. Fortunately, it lifted and touched down on a new track a couple miles before it got to us.
http://www.devineisd.org/index.php/calendar-123/month.calendar/2015/05/26/-
The Devine High School calendar shows the prom was Saturday at 7 pm.
Maybe out here in the country by rivers makes me more conscious of weather situations than city folk who think cities are immune. We’ve had to evacuate and have gotten cut off from getting home. From what I’ve heard, the missing people in Wimberley knew the water was rising and did nothing. They watched the water rise for hours as it gradually came into the house and did nothing. It rips my heart out about the kids but why the heck did the parents not get the heck out? You do NOT mess around during floods.
You two do not understand what a flash flood is.
Cancel the prom? WHY?? It was not raining.
Why was this girl driving home alone from the Prom?
Her death is tragic that is for sure. I’d probably go off the deep in if my kid died like this.
SW Texas is a flash flood area. Fishing on the Pecos River became dangerous if there was a thunderstorm NW of where one was fishing. I watched a wall of tumbleweeds, sheep manure, and water sweep past us as we were scrambling up the bank to higher ground. In a matter of minutes where we had been fishing was 15’ or better underwater. The water came from a thunderstorm 25 miles up river. I remember Sanderson, Texas, getting swept away back in 1965.
Priceless. It doesn't have to be raining on your head to have a flash flood at your feet. It's what is happening up stream you need to be concerned with.
Sad. RIP.
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