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texas hill country floods

We had a house full of people here last night during the storms, the TV was on and the weather channel that was on was showing the washouts. Saw a clip of a car being swept away down a very flooded street. Saw a clip online where a guy was on his deck (second level-about 18 feet) and the water was at the deck. There was a caption saying that the water level went from zero to 27 feet in a matter of 4 hours.

I love Texas hill country and it breaks my heart to see that devastation.
 
powerboatr said:
i am surprised its not posted here yet, as we have many texans here
that event was earth shattering in just blink of an eye
only good thing is medina lake may get some water back now again
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WATCH: Drone footage captures catastrophic floods in Hill Country

Drone footage captured the catastrophic floods that heavily damaged areas of the Texas Hill Country on the Fourth of July.
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I just keep thinking about those poor young girls. It makes me think about when my kids were younger and away at summer camp. I don't even want to think about what those poor parents are going through right now!
 
Our house backs up to the South Fork of the San Gabriel. It's devastating to see. Hoping things don't get worse. There are already people being evacuated, some have had to be rescued by boat. We are deep enough into the subdivision where I don't need to necessarily be concerned about getting flooded. But we very well could be flooded IN.

Here's some Drone footage someone took this morning of my neighborhood/the San Gabriel

 
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We used to live very near the Guadalupe and visited there often. It has seen a lot of water in the past. Floods of 1999, 2004 (I think). In some places it's terraced up and you build at the top. Only temp cottages or such should be built there. Where we would go, campgrounds were always at the highest level with access to the river. Even though this couldn't be predicted, the knives will be out for the local authorities I imagine.
 
Cedric said:
We used to live very near the Guadalupe and visited there often. It has seen a lot of water in the past. Floods of 1999, 2004 (I think). In some places it's terraced up and you build at the top. Only temp cottages or such should be built there. Where we would go, campgrounds were always at the highest level with access to the river. Even though this couldn't be predicted, the knives will be out for the local authorities I imagine.
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somewhere between 20-30' of water inside of 4-6 hours. Absolutely crazy
 
First condolences to all the families involved.

From the coverage I've seen that river-side area appears to have some very flat/gentle ground which would easily allow that river to bounce out of its regular channel.

And not know how much development there is in its watershed, and the underlying substrate since a lot of underlying bed rock and concrete doesn't allow water to soak in, but run off very easily and concentrate in the water courses.

Case in point when I lived in the Duluth, MN area 13 yrs ago we had a June extended cloudburst that lasted several hours, and due to the underlying bedrock (soils are very shallow there) and urban development resulted in a small lake forming in the Mall area due to all the concrete, and well as massive sluice-outs of drainages & city streets going downhill to Lake Superior causing a lot of damage there and significant damage elsewhere due to the flooding of the nearby river.

Mother Nature designed in floodplains to absorb excess water flow, but humans like to build close to the water.

Hope they find as many of those that are missing safe & sound, but the pics don't look good.
 
powerboatr said:
i am surprised its not posted here yet, as we have many texans here
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I thought about that, too, but the news was so horrible I was just stunned. I think people were just waiting and hoping for the best, yet they knew deep inside the best was not going to happen

I still can't think about the kids and their families enough to fathom it, yet.

Prayers and good thoughts....
 
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