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I've been thinking about how much worse it would be if the lakes weren't so low before this started.

Grapevine I believe is a few feet from it's record high. It started 12-13 ft low.

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No joke. Travis has caught everything so far.

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I've been thinking about how much worse it would be if the lakes weren't so low before this started.

Grapevine I believe is a few feet from it's record high. It started 12-13 ft low.

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No joke. Travis has caught everything so far.

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After the upstream dams began releasing. Now everyone has the gates open for the downstream dams.
Meredith is the only one I can think of that may still be down after these rains and upstream releases. I'm sure there are other local lakes with unique conditions I'm forgetting.

The Brazos on HWY60 between College Station and Snook today.

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I've been thinking about how much worse it would be if the lakes weren't so low before this started.

Grapevine I believe is a few feet from it's record high. It started 12-13 ft low.

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Where does grapevine lake feed to? I don't recall any kind of release except for this creek on the dam side that runs through the golf course.

Baitshack, about 94 we had a deluge that flooded from the Beef Cattle center to Snook. I had several sleepless nights that week.

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Meredith is the only one I can think of that may still be down after these rains and upstream releases.

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Draw a line from Wichita Falls south. The full lakes are east of that line. West of that line, still a lot of lakes with very little water in them. I'm sure it's been posted before, but for those that missed it:

Texas Tribune reservoir level map

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At least that is sitting right over one of the two areas left in the state that are still technically in a drought condition.

The Brazos is about to come out of its banks, we really dont need anymore water downstream. The Colorado and San Bernard are in the same situation as well, though the San Bernard is not nearly as high. If either the Brazos or Colorado do top their banks though, the San Bernard typically ends up catching a lot of the overflow.

Eventually runs into the Trinity River

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I've been thinking about how much worse it would be if the lakes weren't so low before this started.

Grapevine I believe is a few feet from it's record high. It started 12-13 ft low.

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Where does grapevine lake feed to? I don't recall any kind of release except for this creek on the dam side that runs through the golf course.

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Merges with Trinity below Lake Lewisville, which is downstream from Ray Roberts.

Runs by downtown Dallas and on South

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That's what is left on the fence in my earlier photos.
This pasture is waist deep and connected to the river after it came over the high bank. Current in the ditch is part of the river.
Jiggs hay patch, waist deep.

Personal note, if you are out and about in affected areas, don't drive around gawking drinking beers and laughing.

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Is that 1458? Do you know if they plan to close that road?

PB close enough. 94-95 works for me. It was a torrent of rain. I dodged many a flooded road.

Carpe exactly. Can our normal high pressure dome will devert an El Nina? I say yes. But if the Pacific is still low temp in the fall, oh boy.'

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What is that rectangular object in the river on your second picture?

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As mentioned, one of the old Hwy 60 bridge columns. Usually can see more than one

Which is already damn full. Jeeze

They told us tonight. They were out there helping us control traffic as we got some cows out for a neighbor. Was open for all of the gawkers. Careful though, it should cross on the curve on the way to Sealy past Allen's creek. Our property is everything from Allen's creek to the bend on the river side.

We did have some aholes try and bring an airboat into our pastures because the river was connected and they claimed they didn't realize it was pasture (didn't notice all of the fences I guess). We had our cows trapped on high ground. We ran them off, but hopefully they lock it all down. People like that are gonna spook all of the cows in the bottom into the water.

If anyone is looking for info on lake levels, waterdatafortexas.org is a good site. Updated daily and contains every reservoir in the state

I remember that flood. I was working the A&M plantation and they had to truck all the cattle out. Last truck got stuck and had to get the neighbors big articulating JD to pull the truck out.
Spent that summer pulling fence out from under corn stubble/debris and rebuilding ALOT of fence.
Killed many a snake with a 6' piece of rebar that year.

Lance I stand corrected.

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Unbelievable!

Yea it's unbelievable.

http://www.twcnews.com/tx/austin/weather/radar.html#satrad_centex-animated

Almost seems like its started to slow down as its gotten closer too.

It is doing something similar to what the previous storm did on Monday in Houston. The bottom of the storm started to curve backwards causing the upper section to slow down. Kind of like a swinging gate.

Sounds like more time on target for areas that needed it to just blow through

Might be more time on target but at much reduced rainfall rate. This will hopefully be a 1.5-2 hour rainfall with the heavy part upfront and then dissolving into a slow/steady shower.

This will not be the Memorial Day rate of rain. It's moving VERY fast.

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It is doing something similar to what the previous storm did on Monday in Houston. The bottom of the storm started to curve backwards causing the upper section to slow down. Kind of like a swinging gate.

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Also what happened up here in NW Harris County on Tuesday morning. The eastern part of the line pushed through to the coast relatively quickly, while the western part of the line hung up over West & NW Harris county and points west, dumping 3-5 inches of rain during morning rush hour.

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That's what is left on the fence in my earlier photos.
This pasture is waist deep and connected to the river after it came over the high bank. Current in the ditch is part of the river.
Jiggs hay patch, waist deep.

Personal note, if you are out and about in affected areas, don't drive around gawking drinking beers and laughing.

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Is that 1458? Do you know if they plan to close that road?

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1458 already closed. We're just across the river, neighbor. Good luck and hold on.

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They told us tonight. They were out there helping us control traffic as we got some cows out for a neighbor. Was open for all of the gawkers. Careful though, it should cross on the curve on the way to Sealy past Allen's creek. Our property is everything from Allen's creek to the bend on the river side.

We did have some aholes try and bring an airboat into our pastures because the river was connected and they claimed they didn't realize it was pasture (didn't notice all of the fences I guess). We had our cows trapped on high ground. We ran them off, but hopefully they lock it all down. People like that are gonna spook all of the cows in the bottom into the water.

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We're right across the river and gawkers have added hours to everyone's efforts to clear horses, livestock and other trailers. Damn shame. Hang in there. I have thought it was going to peak before real trouble but there are Leo types saying to expect much worse.

I live 1-mile from the Brazos on flat farmland, I'm starting to pucker. Put all my valuables on the second floor.

From my earlier post, I measured the diagonal distance from the water line to the top of the bank at 25 feet. Tonight it was 19' 10". With all the rain upstream, it's making me a little uneasy.

Granted, the bottom here is about two miles wide and flat, so any overflow will get pretty evenly distributed, and hopefully won't move very fast.

I don't know where on earth the brazos is 19' below cut bank, but be grateful if so. I'm on the beach side, but normally the far cut bank is 40 feet tall. Now it is 2.

Was hoping we'd get some time to dry out but this storm makes me very worried. I'm in Austin now and it's raining pretty heavy. Driving to Houston tomorrow for the weekend. Worried about flooding pretty much the whole way, especially since I'm going to a wedding (bride is already a wreck from the flooding earlier this week) and crossing all the rivers as they crest and get additional runoff

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I live 1-mile from the Brazos on flat farmland, I'm starting to pucker. Put all my valuables on the second floor.

From my earlier post, I measured the diagonal distance from the water line to the top of the bank at 25 feet. Tonight it was 19' 10". With all the rain upstream, it's making me a little uneasy.

Granted, the bottom here is about two miles wide and flat, so any overflow will get pretty evenly distributed, and hopefully won't move very fast.

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T&Ps for you. Never want to let in on a chance, and this is the year when you don't take a chance.