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.

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?????

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

Hope everyone is safe, and dry!

Been thinking about you all & Linda and Kendra, hoping everyone is safe. I especially worry out Judy & Linda after last night. Had no idea Houston had such a bad night until I learned this morning people were kept in the Toyota Center for a while after the game until the immediate flooding cleared out but some still hadn't left this morning apparently since they have to travels through or live where the water is still dangerously high.

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.

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.

Really concerned about you Texas folks! Glad to hear some good news! Keep those Yorkies high and dry :D

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.

Is lake Ray Hubbard banks over flowing?
Do you know?

Oh, how sad that you lost JoJo and in that way. Sounds like it was fast at least. So sorry. Sounds like you have flooded before so sure hoping the heavy rain stays downstream from ya'll. Stay safe, Joan!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Stay safe everyone.

I can't imagine how bad it must be in Houston. I used to live on the southside and any kind of reasonable rain would flood the area. It has been a scary few days in Texas. Saturday I got a tornado warning in my area with 5 minutes advance notice, luckily nothing hit us but it's not a comforting feeling sitting in the middle hallway of the house holding Cookie tight while hearing 1960s air raid sirens going off and air coming in and out under the closed doors. Luckily the San Antonio area escaped bad flooding for the most part but my heart goes out to Houston, Austin, and everywhere along the Blanco River.

Stay safe Vicki and all of you anywhere near this horrid rain. You are in my prayers. What ever you do, just put off anything that may endanger you, don't take any chances. 7 more days, how dreadful.

It looks like another round of storms might be heading for the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and other parts of Texas. I sure hope everyone stays safe. We have not had any rain here since yesterday morning so I am thankful for that.

I am thinking of all of you in Texas, praying you stay safe. We are watching the coverage on the Weather Channel. The pictures and video are heartbreaking.

ARGGGG I just saw that on the new's. Heck last night it just sat over us here in the Fort Worth area for about 3hrs and wasn't moving. Damn I just want it to go away.

Here it comes again. Red, green & yellow blobs headed this way on weather maps. Time for Tibbe to start growling and bark-wooing at the thunder until I. He thinks he can scare it off I'm pretty sure. Seems like lately the bad storms always hit during evening TV programming extending right into bedtime, so whatever movie or show is on broadcast TV is either pre-empted with our over-eager weathermen all over the screen making dire statements or wind and thunder keeping us up half the night. I know it's probably just my antsy state of mind at the time but I swear they seem to enjoy talking up the danger they say we're all in just to keep us glued to the screen.

Everybody in the flood/storm zones, please stay safe tonight. We're praying for you all and ourselves. :hands::hands::hands:

Wow, that is a nasty storm about to slam into DFW. Heavy rain all way from Big Bend up past Wichita Falls and into Oklahoma. Stay safe everyone in North Texas.

Yep just looked at the Radar. Going to slammed in the next hour. Gotta get the doggies out to pee. LOL

Well crap, looks like that huge line is hitting San Antonio too in 3-5 hours or so. I hope it breaks up before Houston though, they sure don't need it right now. Austin too, but they're 100% getting hammered by this line.

Woke me up 30 mins. or so ago thundering, lightening, raining cats and dogs and there looks to be training all the way down to the Mexico border. It's been a real storm, loud and heavy. DallasPD using the word numerous to describe number of high water incidents they are dealing with. Power outages are being reported.

We've got an area of intense rain just hanging over us East - Northeast of Dallas - it's not moving along with rest of storms, just keeps reforming and hanging in place. The rain is heavy and constant still. Amazing amount of water coming down. Even the fire rescue personnel are reporting getting stuck in high water. Johnson County having a bad time of it. Cars stranded in high water everywhere. Streets being closed. DFW Scanner reports too many vehicles stuck in water to report just now. Guy on radio just said all streets in Plano,Tx. had water levels over his hood!

Just checked my weather radar and the red peninsula of storm stuck over our area is finally letting up and beginning to move norht-northeast but still here - just lighter. Never seen a storm just sit over this area so long.

Just heard a Dallas Fire Engine report they couldn't make their call, "We're being blocked by high water everywhere we go" so Dispatch said they'd give their call to another Engine. They are repeatedly calling for some Engine 6. It finally answered, can see the car they were being called about but said busy just up the road from it with a rescue in process. Yet another truck at NW Highway & Garland Rd. reported they can't make their call, that they have multiple cars stuck in their area and they need Dallas PD there, too.

Dispatch keeps asking various Engines in the area if they can see a red car and no one can. Wonder what that is?

Twitter showing multiple shots of 4-5 foot deep water in various underpasses in Dallas right now, some with cars stranded in them.

Just reported to Engines "we have a train still coming that they are notifying to try to shut it down".

Engine stalled out at Sylvia & Gus Thomasson. This is just one I've heard stuck in water itself. Mutliple wrecks reported, one just pulled victims out of the wreckage.

Peavy & Encicada or something like that is a person out of the car in the water they are stopping to retrieve on their way to another call. Yikes - pretty bad here.