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"that happen a lot Mister?:

You don't really expect me to admit that, do you?
LOL!

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, let's go to press:

Talking to my son in Kerrville, he says the Guadalupe River has risen about ten feet today.
That means that the people downsteam of the Guadalupe River, like New Braunsfels, will see a wall of water cresting at over ten feet sometime tonight or tomorrow.
The Medina Dam is NOT broken. The water you see on TV coming around the dam is coming over the spillway which was designed to do just that.
The water is about three feet below the Medina Dam.
Canyon Lake will see the same wall of water that is currently coming downstream at Kerrville.
He said TexanaRed's house was probably on one of the creeks which runs into the Guadalupe River, and her's was not the only house washed away.

On a side note, while working today he witnessed the Red Cross giving out hot coffee while one of the local churches in conjunction with Wal-Mart were feeding people with fried chicken.
The Red Cross does have emergency shelters set up, but I guess it's too much trouble to try to feed the people who are trying to save their possessions.
Heck, they can survive on coffee!
Didn't some other bureaucrat once say, "Let 'em eat cake?"

I experienced a horrendous tornado in Wichita Falls in 1979.......McDonalds had a huge tractor trailer that had been turned into a "rolling McDonalds" that they drove right into one of the hardest hit areas, where they served food, totally free of charge, to anyone who could get to them......... there were many other companies that jumped right in and helped out......... the Red Cross gets all the publicity, but so many other organizations and businesses help so many people during a disaster..........

Perhaps donations to local churches to help them defray costs would be an idea over sending to the Red Cross (as if any freepers would still do that!)........

Glad your son is ok........