Water, water everywhere!

[04 elantra cvvt]

Here in Central Texas, we got a hell of a lot of rain last night. One town about 15 miles away got 19.5" in less than 7 hours! We went to the local park tonight and took some pics. I just had to share this.

BTW, this is after the water has gone down a whole lot. At one point, the water was 22 feet higher than in these pictures.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p13/camaro_thunder92/Flood2007/flood02.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p13/camaro_thunder92/Flood2007/flood03.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p13/camaro_thunder92/Flood2007/flood04.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p13/camaro_thunder92/Flood2007/flood05.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p13/camaro_thunder92/Flood2007/flood06.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p13/camaro_thunder92/Flood2007/flood01.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p13/camaro_thunder92/Flood2007/flood07.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p13/camaro_thunder92/Flood2007/flood08.jpg

And, it is still raining tonight. Hopefully we won't have a repeat of last night!

[mbv2001]

i love summer rains and all but that is crazy! we could use lil more rain out this way grass looking lil dry.

[zx2uner]

Send that **** our way....I just got one cut of hay done...and would love to get another...since I haven't been able to in the past 4 years.

[04 elantra cvvt]

Alex, you can have all you want of this crap. We have had rain here for the past 12 days in a row. And, they don't forecast it to stop until July 14th! We could be in some serious trouble if it doesn't stop.

[bdiggy]

Damn that's nuts! We've had a share of floods here so far this year, but nothing like that. Oh, and your real liscense plate is exposed;)

[zx2uner]

Alex, you can have all you want of this crap. We have had rain here for the past 12 days in a row. And, they don't forecast it to stop until July 14th! We could be in some serious trouble if it doesn't stop.

Dude...I'd take it. We had 2 inches in 2 days...and we were all ecstatic. We're supposed to get more on Sunday...ha

[sciphi]

Rain, please! The grass here is getting that special shade of sh!t-brown from just enough rain to survive. Every area around here was hit, but nothing here. Oh well.

[04 elantra cvvt]

It just started pouring here again... I don't know how much more of this we can handle.

[mayollo072R]

Wow dude. That reminds me of hurricanne season dissasters. Thats a serious situation you guys got there, you should look for shelter.:(

[SuperGLS]

Looks like in that first pic that the trees were trying to stay dry too. Ha.

[Doohickie]

I was okay until this morning. Yeah, it's wet here in Fort Worth, and low-lying areas are getting some flooding, but that doesn't directly affect me.

What *does* affect me is that my son is at church camp this week in Hunt, Texas, a little ways the other side of Marble Falls (which had major flooding last night- the 19.5 inches 04 elantra cvvt mentioned). I don't think my son is in danger at camp, but the route we usually take home from that camp is throught Marble Falls. If this rain keeps up, I hope they take the long way home- I-10 to San Antonio, to I-35 north.

[kylemorg]

After reading this thread, I find myself just waiting for a post from 04 elantra cvvt posting something as if from underwater like:

"blub blub blub"...

[TURBOgls]

same kinda thing is happening somewhere in europe right now, i saw it on the news last night.

[Ugzz]

yeah i just saw it on the news yesterday, they called it "rain of biblical proportions"

hope all yinz texans people stay safe and dry

also is it sad that the first thing i thought was, oh **** if i was there id be road tripping the elantra to higher ground.. but i hear its pretty flat down there.. any large parking garages? hehe

[kylemorg]

i hear its pretty flat down there..

Depends on what part of Texas -- once you're near the middle of the state east to west from about half way up north to the upper border, you're in hill country where there is higher ground. That's where my parents live now.

It's pretty flat around Houston in the eastern end of Texas, though. That's where my Grandmother used to live.

I haven't been to west Texas for decades, and I was so young I don't remember what the topography is like there.

[Ugzz]

gotcha, i never really lookin into it, all i know is that one of my old hs buddys has a 17yr old couzin from texas and she came up here and kept talkin about how amazing it was to see all the hills. also just for the record she couldnt parallel park and had to get out of the car and switch with someone to park.. lol, she said she never has to parallel park at home and it wasnt part of her test

[Doohickie]

Yeah, my son is at church camp in "Hill Country" this week. The city that got the 19.5" of rain is also in Hill Country. The poblem with that is that the rain comes down and gets concentrated into normally low or even empty creek- and riverbeds, making the waters very treacherous.

I'm not in Hill Country, and after a big flood in the 1940s the Army Corps of Engineers built several flood control dams around the area, but it's getting to the point that all the reservoirs are full and there isn't as much flexibiltiy to the system in terms of moving the water around. I still think we'll be okay though.

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 are no floods or tornados
Baby and the sun shines every day

"Texas Flood" by Stevie Ray Vaughan

[punkrocker3_00]

We could use a day of that rain here in Ohio as well. I think they have said we have only had like a couple of inches for the whole month of June and we normally get a lot more than that. But atleast the corn around here seems to be doing good. Most of it is more than knee high and it isn't July 4th yet.

[SWortham]

Holy crap. We've been getting a ton of rain in Mckinney as well without much of a break, but I know we haven't seen that much all at once. But on a few occasions lately it's rained hard enough to flood the streets and practically turn them into rivers.

[Doohickie]

Yeah, my street was up over the curbs for a while when it was raining hard.

[PSUsouthpaw]

yeah i just saw it on the news yesterday, they called it "rain of biblical proportions"

hope all yinz texans people stay safe and dry

also is it sad that the first thing i thought was, oh **** if i was there id be road tripping the elantra to higher ground.. but i hear its pretty flat down there.. any large parking garages? hehe

If it rains that much here, I'll be heading for little round top for the night...

[Ugzz]

i live on top of a giant hill, if y neighborhood floods, we have a VERY serious problem..
wish i still had my dads gps, it tells you how many ft above sea level you are

[04 elantra cvvt]

I live on the Eastern edge of the Hill Country, so all of the rain that falls there drains through my County. Makes for an interesting time now and then.

BTW, we are 787 feet above sea level here.

[Gregster]

The hell with the rain, I can deal with it, but those mosquitos are huge! The pools of water left from the rain are breeding grounds for this buick sized blood suckers!

[Doohickie]

Yeah, it's been bad this summer for mosquitos.