quote:

---

Has there ever been a time that Texas was completely drought-free? Getting close.

---

Crazy to think that five years ago, there was a time when none of Texas was drought-free. Literally 100% affected in some way.

quote:

---

---

Still searching for 6 soldiers I. The flood waters

Is the Frio getting ANY of this??? Choke Canyon needs some ****ing water!

quote:

---

Is the Frio getting ANY of this??? Choke Canyon needs some ****ing water!

---

I think it's getting a little bit of it. It looks like the rivers and creeks have FINALLY saturated the channels enough to get water flowing through the flats downstream of the hill country. The Carrizo is likely still pretty thirsty, but it's hard to tell without very many gages. At least the NOAA graphs are showing projected increases in flow, we can only hope those are correct.

That area is going to need a LOT more rain though to even think about considering filling Choke. So far, the lake has picked up about 8,000 ac ft of water.

Mini hurricane over Dallas. Pouring in bands.

Damn Gina

https://www.facebook.com/pedernalesfalls/videos/10153910107426743/

Highway 6 has been completely washed out below the Lake Cisco dam. The water has ripped a huge section of the highway out and the berm that the road was built on.

quote:

---

Highway 6 has been completely washed out below the Lake Cisco dam. The water has ripped a huge section of the highway out and the berm that the road was built on.

---

Was coming here to post that.... Worried about the dam now

That looks like the washout by Bastrop a year or so ago.

quote:

---

That looks like the washout by Bastrop a year or so ago.

---

That's Lake Cisco dam for sure.

Really weird here in Kansas. We went from parched, to 15 days of downpours, and now back to parched. The rain was so often and hard for those 2 weeks that, now that it's 90+ and baking the ground is like concrete. Just hard pan anywhere that there is bare ground.

quote:

---

quote:

---

That looks like the washout by Bastrop a year or so ago.

---

That's Lake Cisco dam for sure.

---

I don't doubt it, it just reminds me of a clip I saw here a year or so ago from a creek near Bastrop.

quote:

---

quote:

---

quote:

---

That looks like the washout by Bastrop a year or so ago.

---

That's Lake Cisco dam for sure.

---

I don't doubt it, it just reminds me of a clip I saw here a year or so ago from a creek near Bastrop.

---

Holy ****, its risen 3 feet in 24 hours and 3 feet from going over the damn...

http://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/cisco

3.6" in one hour here in Portland. I drove in from work at 5:30 and was amazed. Never seen the streets here flooded like that. Looked like there was water in a lot of homes in the East Cliff area.

2 hrs before that the sun was out with no signs of rain.

That link to TWDB is terribly written... According to it conservation pool is the same as the emergency spillway elevation and only 8.5 ft below the top of the dam.

Man, I could be wrong, but looking at pics it's a lot more than 8.5ft between the spillway and the top of the dam. What am I reading wrong?

quote:

---

That link to TWDB is terribly written... According to it conservation pool is the same as the emergency spillway elevation and only 8.5 ft below the top of the dam.

Man, I could be wrong, but looking at pics it's a lot more than 8.5ft between the spillway and the top of the dam. What am I reading wrong?

---

looking at Topo maps, that seems to be the case...

quote:

---

---

I drove right by this on my way home today. This was on East Range Rd at Owl Creek on Fort Hood. Owl Creek was roaring at 6:15pm when I crossed it, I can only imagine how high it was at 11:30am when this happened. They were on the tank trail that's literally right next the road. The tank trail goes right into the creek bottom, but East Range Rd right next to it is much higher and has a bridge. All they had to do was turn around and get on the paved road and cross the bridge. Very sad deal.

Yep, it's ridiculous.

Some people are just dumb

You can make it, Captain. Punch it!

Looks like Darwin lost

i prefer to think of it more as a Charlie Sheen win than a Darwin loss.

quote:

---

---

Would insurance cover this?

It shouldn't but it does. The 17 year old son of a guy that works for me drove his truck into high water during last year's May floods which destroyed it, and it was covered.

quote:

---

quote:

---

---

Would insurance cover this?

---

Unfortunately yes we do pay out for stupidity

quote:

---

---

Such a shame. A&M had cellular flood gauges at just about every major water crossing on ft hood, and some upstream. The army decided that they didn't want to pay the upkeep, so all the gauges were pulled.

Most of the maintained low water crossings on ft hood have a huge piece of pipe sticking up out of the crossing. The bottom foot or so is painted green, if you can't see the green, you're not supposed to cross.