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05-26-2015, 07:40 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 5000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Southeast Texas
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| Flooding in Texas Sending prayers to all of those in Texas that are effected by all the flooding. I have been seeing all the images from central Texas and the Houston. It looks really bad for a lot of folks. A number of people have lost their lives. It is really sad.
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05-26-2015, 09:25 AM | #2 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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| All is high and dry here at Rosehill.....but starting about a mile down the road and you start running into flooded streets and high water....most of the freeways are even flooded! People are drowning in their cars, driving into high water, trying to get to work! That is what is so sad.....driving out into what all was taking place, in spite of all the warnings and instructions to stay off the streets, stay at home.....so unnecessary, those deaths....why dont people listen????? |
05-26-2015, 10:41 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: At Home
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| I am so sick of this rain. I wish it would just stop. I know my area DFW has had some flooding. My back yard can't stand to have any more rain. As it is now I have a rain made lake in my yard. LOL they said we have at least 7 more day's of rain in the forecast. ARGGGGGGG
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05-26-2015, 11:09 AM | #4 |
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05-26-2015, 11:46 AM | #5 | ||
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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I've always heard droughts are stopped by floods but this is amazingly fast. So much water, over and over and over for weeks. Tibbe has almost forgotten what its like to play outside on the lawn in dry mode with the sun warming things! He's so short he always comes in wet from his short little legs keeping him so low down in the St. Augustine grass that seems to retain moisture for a couple days or more after a rain or dense dew and then we get more and more of both. The lawn was mowed Friday & the St. Augustine has already grown 3 - 4 inches! That stuff is super aggressive in warm, damp weather with occasional sun and grows like weeds. Looks like a thick, solid green carpet all around the house, front, back and sides and Tibbe has to struggle to walk through it after it's had a growth spurt while its still very wet. He's only 9" at the withers and 7 lbs. & his legs just not long enough to be all that effective going through that thick, thick, long stuff. Seems to take him forever to get from the outside edge of the yard to the back porch! Jilly was only 3 lbs. but she was slightly higher on leg and could sprite through the grass easier somehow. Maybe she walked on top of it - hehe. She was so light & her feet so tiny, she almost never got muddy feet even when she walked across a muddy spot on the sidewalk! Once Tibbe gets into the Utility Room, it's a full dry off with towels that I have to hang up to dry until next potty session! Something is chirping/wooing at me from my computer - maybe one of the weather service alerts or an update nag. It's a new sound, more like an "a-choo" than anything!!! Maybe this thing has gotten a cold from all this cool weather and rain, rain,rain! Did you hear about the Homecoming Queen drowning coming home from the prom?!?! Poor kid, probably just had one of the happiest days of her life and then she dies on her way home - within a couple of miles I think it was! And the mom and her 2 kids, in her wrecked cabin rushing down the river as the structure came apart. Dad was found, mom, kids still missing. Story after story like that. Ya'll stay safe, especially you girls down there in Houston area. Up here in D/FW area, we've got another week at least of a overcast, partly cloudy/cloudy weather with chances of rain every day, some fairly high chances and if Houston has anything like that in its forecast in the next 2 - 3 days, it could be horrendous on top of that standing water. Better go & see why my laptop is sneezing.
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05-26-2015, 11:54 AM | #6 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| It's amazing, we have creeks all around near the house - 4 or so within 2, 3 minutes walk on a stroll that I can think of - and we've never even come close to flooding in all the years I've lived here. And some don't even live that close to water and seem to flood after one hard rain - just wonder what the difference is.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
05-26-2015, 03:08 PM | #7 |
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| Really concerned about you Texas folks! Glad to hear some good news! Keep those Yorkies high and dry
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05-26-2015, 03:14 PM | #8 |
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| So far so good here on the ranch. The bad storm last month was much worse for us as we lost our horse, JoJo to lightning. Glad I work from home so I don't have to drive into Houston! Hubby has a truck with big tires and he has a lot of common sense so I don't worry about him. He would be the one jumping in to save other people. You have to stay on top of the news and weather here. Something that the younger generation (at least the ones in my life) don't do. So very sad that people do not heed the warnings. As soaked as the ground is it wouldn't take much rain to flood again. I am praying for all of those that have been going through bad weather lately. Oklahoma has also been hit very hard.
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05-26-2015, 03:54 PM | #9 | |
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Is lake Ray Hubbard banks over flowing? Do you know? | |
05-26-2015, 04:27 PM | #10 | |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis | |
05-26-2015, 04:42 PM | #11 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| I hardly hear them mention it on the local news. It's the nearest lake to me and I have to cross it twice to get to my PCP and back home again - it's a beautiful drive to and from the doctor. I found this on the net - LRH is 100% full but not flooded yet and to think only 6 months ago it was only 58% full : Water Data For Texas I can hear it thundering slightly! Surely it's not going to rain half the night again tonight.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
05-26-2015, 06:22 PM | #12 |
Donating YT 5000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Southeast Texas
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| This weather is so crazy. It looks like the area west of Ft. Worth in Stephens and Palo Pinto counties are getting flash floods now. I know just about everyone in Texas is ready for some dry weather.
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05-26-2015, 07:13 PM | #13 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| It's really thundering just south of here, lighting up the night out the window. The storm is now over Duncanville, which is very near where my sister lives. It should stay mostly south of where Tibbe and I live but we're getting it's northern edge now. And when it's passed, there's another big one behind it on radar that should move in about 12 or 1, again the bulk of it south of here but us getting in on the top edge. So tired of this.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
05-26-2015, 11:36 PM | #14 |
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| I'm glad everyone is okay and hope you all stay that way. My parents are only about 10 minutes away from major flooding in Oklahoma and everyday is a new warning re: floods or tornados as if the tornados alone weren't enough! |
05-27-2015, 03:23 AM | #15 |
Donating YT 5000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Southeast Texas
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| We woke up a 4 a.m. to heavy rains and thunderstorms. It is still raining. It looks like Houston is getting hit now. I pray everyone stays safe.
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