quote:holy crap. i'd be afraid that the earth would pop like a balloon and i would sinkquote:what the heck?!
How it feels around my back yard.
quote:That's the sort of thing I was thinking of.quote:I wouldn't rule out the possibility. I've seen meanders cut off in below bank full flows.
Any possibility that the Brazos or some of the other rivers will change course back to an older or different route/
I would not expect it to make a full switch to another side of the floodplains.
quote:Someone tried to go gig gars in our pasture because "its part of the creek". Fool gonna do nothing but spook cattle and get himself killed on a hidden barbed wire fence. Locals ran him off, he was from Houston area and came out to go fishing.quote:
Just south of FM50 and TX Hwy21 is "Moehlman Slough", a former path of the Brazos River. It's a very deep cut, with water sometimes pooled in the bottom. Totally FULL as of yesterday!
Ive always wondered if you could fish in there if you entered from the river side. I bet nobody ever touches it but I'm sure some farmer thinks it's his.
quote:quote:holy crap. i'd be afraid that the earth would pop like a balloon and i would sinkquote:what the heck?!
How it feels around my back yard.
quote:hehe, mother nature gave you a free water bed at chilifest, and you just jumped up and down on it till it broke.
Oddly the one time I've experienced land like that was at Chilifest. Granted it was before "setup" day. A few of us were walking around and found several spots where it was happening. By the end of the next night of course those spots were just grass-less mud holes.
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I think that was the year that the Brazos River crept up all the way to West Columbia, which is several miles from the Brazos. I remember seeing river water in the ditches around town.
WC is less than 2 miles from the river. If the Brazos comes out of its banks in that area, West Columbia is going to get water. Won't be the first time.
When the flood maps were redrawn in 1989 Fema took Mallard and Manor lake area on Cr 25 out of the AE zone and rezoned it X. I had an insured that had a house there and the early 90's had more than a foot of water in his house for 2 months
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I think that's either in Canada or Alaska/Russia.
There is a special soil type or condition that allows that to happen and the water gets under the veg. but above the permafrost. This is somewhat of an educated guess.
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I bet nobody ever touches it but I'm sure some farmer thinks it's his.
quote:Floated the 4 hour float in 2 hours a couple years ago during a period of heavy rain. It was great, free beer after every rapid.
Canyon Lake Corps just opened up the gates, guadalupe is at 2500 cfs now.
So much for tubing!
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UPDATE #2: Due to the rapid rise of Grapevine Lake levels. The Corps has decided to close Fairway Drive (Dam Road) at 3:30 p.m.
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Yeah, those crazy old SOBs. They pay a ton of money, get a deed to a piece of ground, use it, maintain it, and pay taxes on it for 40-50 years and the next thing you know, they think they own it
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Here is Lake Grapevine's spillway today. You can see the road in the back that gets shut down tonight.
quote:My guess is the lightning caused more trouble than the rain.
Did they get wet?
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Here is Lake Grapevine's spillway today. You can see the road in the back that gets shut down tonight.
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I'm trying to figure out where that is. Are Cowboys Golf Club and Grapevine municipal right behind that?
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Which one is Mallard lake? I know where Manor, Eagle Nest and Mann lakes are, and there are a couple of reservoirs over there as well on that side of the river (technically Mann is a reservoir as well), but not sure which one Mallard is.
