DFD boats being requested.

DFD calling constantly for PD to come block off streets so more cars won't stall out. Engines still calling in to say they are being delayed in responding by high water & running onto other motorists in trouble. Rain coming in heavyish again.

Engine rescue calling for another boat, reporting 3 1/2 hours stall at Denton & I think he said 35, whatever that means.

Fire engines reporting being trapped in traffic & can't reach destinations. Lots of "swift water, going to Channel 3"being heard.

DPD being requested by DFD engines at scene for Lemmon & NW Hwy. - cars coming over the bridge, getting stalled out. Engines still reporting inability to get to their calls. Yikes, loud thunder clap right overhead!!!! Tibbe's going OFF on it.

Tibbe & I took some time off to snuggle and listen to the rain, got in a short, short nap, then tuned Dallas County Sheriff & Fire Scanner back on web and the engines are still calling for DPD to come block off roads. Numerous units saying they can't use the exits they need to access stalled vehicles/rescues due to high water so they will be delayed. Can't say enough for our first responders tonight.

Dallas rush hour this morning is going to be at the very least a mess, at the most jus plain dangerous unless this rain lets up pretty soon. Still raining steadily here, heavy at times but the lightening and thunder seem to have passed on finally. Tibbe thinks he ran it off and is now curled up beside me, having done his job. Uh oh - raining very hard again. More PD calls to block traffic. Apparently just about every low underpass or road in Dallas is flooded or wrecks shutting freeways down, traffic needs diverting.

We're finally getting live TV coverage showing numerous flash-flooded, stalled out cars on highways, feeder/service roads, some even having driven past the barricades cops had already set up when the flooded! Every stream, brook, tributary, creek, pond, lake & river in D/FW area seems to be over its banks and flowing onto roads, stopping traffic. Many of the cars are flooded over their hoods, many in low spots in highways under overpasses and tow trucks can't get to them due to snarled, wrecked traffic & high water they can't avoid. Lots of cars lined up for miles due to high water no one will drive through. The water is some areas is thigh-high and swift, taking some off their feet.

This one young woman who flooded out in her car said her shoes at one time were floating in her car and she's lost a windshield wiper somehow. Just as she was being interviewed, a Triple A tow truck arrived to help her. She's soaked to the skin and shoeless now!

I hope all businesses/schools that can will stay closed due to a Rain Day or at least open after noon to give first responders time to get this early mess partly cleaned up before more stall out. Thing is rescuers just can't get to those who need them and the back-up keeps growing, causing wrecks. Dallas has gotten almost 5 inches of rain from tonight, that on top of the soaked ground and over-filled waterways. We've 2 more days of this to come weathermen are saying.

D/FW Metroplexers, stay home and stay safe if you can today. It looks frightful out there.

Goodness, it sounds like it was a horrible night for those in the DFW area. I pray there were no deaths. I hope everyone stays safe. We have a little rain heading our way this morning.

I figured it was going to be horrible in the DFW area when I saw the storms just entering Fort Worth at about 10 PM last night on the radar, and then I checked about 1:30AM as it was just coming into the San Antonio area and it was still right over Fort Worth. We got about 15-20 minutes of really heavy rain and high wind, but it was in and out quick over here.

How dreadful I've been reading about this and praying for you all.

Keep in touch here so we know you are alright.

YorkieFan how scary for you all, as I said above, I am praying for all of you.:2omg::heart to

Here we go again. Saturday morning lot's of rain, wind, thunder and lighting.
I just want it all to go away. They say NO RAIN next week. I sure hope so!!!!

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers, but it hasn't been bad at all in the San Antonio area except last Saturday when we had the tornado warning. But Houston, Dallas, Austin haven't been so fortunate. :(

Today is actually the last rain we have forecast in the San Antonio area for a while. I hope the same holds true for Dallas, Houston, and all of Central Texas where they can't really afford any more rain right now.

Prayers going out to everyone in Texas

Crap, I am seeing massive circulation in the clouds right above my house, and then lots of points coming down like they're wanting to develop into funnels. Wow the sky does not look good right now.

Thankfully the circulation has died down a lot and I'm no longer seeing little funnels popping down from the clouds.

As I write this, there is one of those BLARING emergency alert systems screaming on the TV for a flash flood warning until 6:30pm......

I had my son cut the grass this am....it was almost knee high!!! We have mice and snakes running everywhere....coming up from all these creeks, fields, bayous....I wanted to get the grass cut before one of my dogs gets snake bit.....they have to hop like rabbits ....BOINGA, BOINGA, BOINGA! to get around the back yard, over the top of the grass, and the smallest ones cant jump as high as the grass is tall!!! I just let them all out in "shifts" onto the back concrete patio and yard that is covered in flag stone....they are all going stir crazy!!!

Saddle up, here we go again!

LOL - the Boinga sounds familiar - it's so hard for Tibbe to get through the thick, wet grass and he's just soaked when he comes in - even after the rain's stopped. He does jump over the taller clumps. Hopefully the yardman can get to work tomorrow or Monday!

Feel for you with the coming weather - we hopefully had the last of ours in the wee hours and all morning but thankfully I slept the clock around - literally from 12:30 a.m. to 12:33 p.m., sleeping through all of it, after being awake most of the night before during all that flooding emergency in Dallas. Good riddance to the rain!

Before today's rain, they said on the weathercast that we've had enough rain to cover the entire surface of Texas with 8" of water! Amazing. Awful way to end a drought but at least all the ponds, lakes and reservoirs are full now and summer is ahead.

Hope Houston stays safe tonight and this is the last of it for you all, too. Next I wish we could send it all to California from here and stop their drought, too. If only.

Just got a notification on my phone, the East Fork Trinity is predicted to go over. I live right there. We are being warned to prepare to evacuate. :(

I'm stuck at work. I just want to go home.

Sounds like an emergency to me.....cant you tell them you have to leave???? Poor soul....I hope it all works out well for you.....be SAFE and do NOT drive into deep water!!!....my cousin lives on the Neches River over in Vidor area....they are wading in and out to get to their house now....it is expected to get deeper....does not crest until Tuesday they have been told....

My mom and dad used to have a little weekend home on Deep River Plantation on the Trinity....when dad was diagnosed with cancer, momma sold all of that so she would not be saddled with stuff she could not take care of...2 weeks after she sold it, we had a huge flood and the whole area washed away!!

I've been reading reports and seeing videos of flooding all over Houston. I have a step daughter that lives in Pasadena and the water got 6" from her house this evening but luckily she just said it is starting to recede.

I feel so bad for all of those that have lost loved ones and lost homes and property due to the flooding. My prayers go out to them.

On a good note, the weather forecast looks a lot better for the rest of the week. I hope everyone has a chance to dry out.

I pray everyone stays safe tonight.

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I was worried about YOU!!! How did this all turn out for you???!!!!

Me too Border Kelpie, all of you really. It sounds like it will just not let up.:eek:

Wow am I glad to see no rain forecast this week for the Houston area, the DFW area, and central Texas. I can't ever remember seeing a month this wet, and we in the San Antonio area didn't even come close to what the rest of Texas saw.

Houston is sunny today!!! PTL!!!!
My mother lost their little weekend get away that was in Deep River Plantation, on the Trinity River, and it all washed away with a flood back in the late 80's, I think it was....when I saw borderkelpie was on the fork on the Trinity River....OMG! first hand experience with the flooded Trinity River!!!

I have family all over Texas....about 1/3 of them live on rivers or lakes, and most of those are experiencing all this flooding and flowing muddy water and running snakes and gators and ants....OMG!!! I am exhausted worried about people and rising muddy water!!! I will be so glad when this is all over...but unfortunately, for alot of these poor people, they have lost loved ones, pets, homes, everything they have worked for and accumulated for years and years....it is such a sad story.....the immediacy of this all may be over for them, but it is life changing and disruptive.....

Oh some good news.:D

We're still getting notices like this via Twitter, even though sun is out and it's not even very humid outside.

City of Dallas ‏@1500Marilla 25m25 minutes ago
A reverse 911 message has been sent to citizens located between Royal Lane and California Crossing, west of I-35.

Yesterday, when Lake Ray Hubbard was opened into the Trinity, City of Mesquite sent out this Tweet.

City of Mesquite, TX ‏@cityofmesquite May 29
Mesquite residents-Army Engineers releasing water from Ray Hubbard into Trinity River; should not affect your property. 972-216-6973.
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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Update on Floods in the City of Dallas

5/29/2015 – 4:00 PM


The City of Dallas Emergency Operations Center will remain activated at a Level 3 – Monitoring Status through 7:00PM Saturday evening to assist in the coordination of response by multiple City Departments to the Flooding that has occurred overnight in Dallas. The City of Dallas received approximately 6.8 inches of rain in Northeast Dallas overnight. The lowest rain total in the city was 1.5 inches in far South Dallas.

In the overnight hours and into early morning, both the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire-Rescue Departments answered calls for 165 street blockages, 163 persons in danger from high water calls, and 84 minor accidents. Additionally, the Dallas Police Department and Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) responded to flooding and blockage of Loop 12 & Interstate 30.

The City continues to focus efforts on blocking flooded roadways and developing plans for reliving traffic throughout the City as a result of the floods. A traffic plan has been created in conjunction with TxDOT to close segments of Loop 12 near Interstate 30 from traffic due to flooding concerns. Additional information on Road Closures can be found on the OEM Twitter account @DallasOEM.

The City continues to operate the Flood Control system to keep water from affecting property or causing injury to citizens. As of the latest forecasts, the Trinity River is expected to crest late Friday evening at 43 feet which will keep the river well within the banks of the levee system. We remain in close contact with the National Weather Service in monitoring the potential for additional heavy rainfall and flash flooding tonight through Saturday morning.

The City has Flooded Roadway Warning Signs activated at the following locations:

Frost, Oakdale, Farragut @ Oakland Channel
Hatcher, 4700
Pemberton Hill @ Sarah Lee
Sargent @ Southerland
California Crossing @ Luna
Luna @ Y Tantor @ X
Wildwood @ California Crossing
Goforth @ Lanshire
Merriman Pkwy, 7400
West Lawther @ Northwest Hwy

The following streets remain closed due to flooding:

ELSIE F HIGGINS & JUNCTION
ELSIE F HIGGINS & BRUTON
GOOD LATIMER; BETWEEN SWISS & LIVE OAK
4100 E Overton
4400 TO 4600 ELSIE F HIGGENS
800 PLYMOUTH
W LAWTHER, BETWEEN GO FORTH AND NW HWY
GO FORTH AND W LAWTHER
MERRIMAN PKWY, BETWEEN FAIR OAK & ABRAMS
SB Park Central under I-635 N Tyler St/N Polk St
S Westmoreland Rd/N Clarendon Ave
N Walton Walker Serv Rd NB/W Jefferson Blvd
N Walton Walker Serv Rd NB/Bernal Dr
Sylvan Ave/W Commerce St (Near Muncie Ave; under the train tressel)
N Walton Walker Blvd SB/Dallas Ft Worth Ramp EB
Sylvan Ave/Fort Worth Ave
Clymer St/Singleton Blvd


The City of Dallas continues to stress to motorists not to drive into water on roadways, or to drive around barricaded roadways. These barricades are put in place to protect lives and property from dangerous flooding. We ask our media partners to continue to push this message to the public.

Thanks for posting all this....very informative and useful!

Did y'all see that Texas Cattle Drive as they rescued 800 head of cattle that had been stranded on an island, surrounded by rising water? Anyone with a horse and time to drive a herd pitched in to help rescue those cattle....that herd was over a million and half dollars worth of cows.....