Texas Governor Perry declares 29 counties disaster areas - Flooding

The Dallas Morning News ^ | July 3, 2002 | By KIMBERLY DURNAN / Dallas Web Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

fyi........

[SpookBrat]

OMG!!! That looks worse than I thought. I need to make some phone calls. Yikes!

HM...this is where you will be living. You won't be on a river though.

COB, is that your son?

[homeschool mama]

How very sad...prayers heavenward <><

[COB1]

I don't know, Spookie.
I haven't been able to talk with him today.
I'm sure he's doing the same things as these guys are doing if that's not him.

He told me last night that the area at Ingram was okay, that the Guadalupe was not out of it's banks there, but as you know, it's a few miles to Kerrville.
Some of those houses in Kerrville are built at the base of some pretty big hills so any run-off is going to flood them.
His rent house in Kerrville was flooded to the bottom of the windows.

[SpookBrat]

That's weird. Ingram and Hunt usually get it first. We used to laugh when people from Houston or Dallas would come build houses right on the river in Hunt. DUH! Just asking for trouble.

How sad about your sons house. I'll pray for him to have strength as he deals with this now. Please keep us posted. I wonder how high the water is. Did it get up to The Inn of the Hills?

[vetvetdoug]

Kerrvile is all rock too. I remember playing football against Tivy in that stadium that was bermudagrass on top of granite. It is no wonder that the water is running off so quick.

[El Gato]

That water working it's way around the Medina Lake dam is extremely serious. You can see how violent it is in the videos, but what you don't see is how much damage it's doing to that wing of the dam. If the water rises to the point that it goes over the dam, as it's already going over the spillway, the dam could concievably fail. I hope they have evacuated people living near the river downstream, at least as far as it's juncture with the San Antonio River.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Ping

[Paid4This]

I live in Austin, which has been spared terrible flooding. I lived in Missouri in 1993 when the floods there were terrible, and I am amazed that out and about in Austin I have not seen anyone collecting money for flood victims in San Antonio and elsewhere. Throughout Missouri and the midwest in '93 people were collecting money and donated items for flood relief. I haven't seen a single thing in Austin, it disturbs me. The funny thing is there are so many high and mighty socially concious leftos here but I haven't seen anyone making any effort to donate money or anything else. What the hell is going on? Is the rest of Texas ignoring their states problems as well or is it just Austin?

For whatever it's worth, the Red Cross and Goodwill spearheaded a lot of the relief efforts in Missouri in 1993. People who want to donate should probably contact one of those orgs because it doesn't seem like anyone else is doing anything.

[sockmonkey]

Fellow Freeper Texana_RED lost everything in the flood. Actually, she feels fortunate-if her neighbors hadn't alerted her, she wouldn't have noticed the water rising so quickly, and would've washed away. I am html challenged, but will attempt to post a link to a picture of where her house used to be. Her little red pickup was in a tree somewhere around there, but I didn't see it. She didn't have flood insurance and will need help.

Okay, here goes click

[COB1]

It all depends on where the rain falls, Spookie.
If it falls on the watershed of the tributaries, then the Guadalupe will get out of it's banks, but if it's localized to that immediate area, the river won't rise that much.
This rain didn't produce swollen tributaries; it just flooded low lying areas with the run-off from the hills surrounding them.
I'll get in touch with my son this evening and find out some more and let you know.
Thank you so much for your concern and your prayers, fellow Texan.

[MeekOneGOP]

Whoa! Look at this picture of a FReepers' remains of their home from post #11........

[MeekOneGOP]

See #11..........

[MeekOneGOP]

Oops! Make that See #13........sheesh! LOL!

[COB1]

"Kerrvile is all rock too."

Yeah, rock and cedar trees!

[SpookBrat]

Hey now...there are a few oaks too ya know. LOL

[Jeremiah Jr]

Texas Flood
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Well there's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
Well there's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
And I've been tryin' to call my baby
Lord and I can't get a single sound

Well dark clouds are rollin' in
Man I'm standin' out in the rain
Well dark clouds are rollin' in
Man I'm standin' out in the rain
Yeah flood water keep a-rollin'
Man it's about to drive poor me insane

Well I'm leavin' you baby
Lord and I'm goin' back home to stay
Well I'm leavin' you baby
Lord and I'm goin' back home to stay
Well back home ain't no floods and tornados
Baby and the sun shines every day

Caught up in a whirlwind, can't catch my breath, knee deep in hot water, broke out in cold sweat...
Tightrope

[SpookBrat]

Did the Antlers win?

[vetvetdoug]

This was when Del Rio was the Wildcats. One year they ran us off the field, the next year we got even. Tivy was tough.