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I hope Larry's will be ok!

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I always wondered about that place. Hard for me to get all excited about a Mexican joint named "Larry's". There is one in Wharton too.

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Would you feel better if you knew that Larry's real name was Eberardo Guerrero?

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From my house I headed east on 359, then north on 723, then east on Bellaire, south on 99, southwest on 59, then north on 36 into Rosenberg to my office.


It took me about an hour instead of 10-12 mins.


90 is gonna be ridiculously slow because of the bottle neck just past the river in downtown Richmond.

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Why didn't you just go down 90A?

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I always wondered about that place. Hard for me to get all excited about a Mexican joint named "Larry's". There is one in Wharton too.

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Yes, yes it would. Petty, I know.

When I think of a "Larry", I think of a fat dude with lots of back hair throwing some microwave dinners in while smoking a Camel in the kitchen, not a short fat Mexican woman using her great grandmother's recipes that have been handed down and modified over the generations.

Well, it would be weird if "Larry" caused you to picture a woman. Other than Gena Davis in Fletch.

90 was stop and go yesterday morning from 359 to the church yesterday at 6:30.

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I always wondered about that place. Hard for me to get all excited about a Mexican joint named "Larry's". There is one in Wharton too.

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Would you feel better if you knew that Larry's real name was Eberardo Guerrero?

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Judging Larry's by its name is just as misleading as trying to judge Bob's Taco's by their name.

bridge pic from another board labeled as 10:30 this morning

That looks about right, ccard. Just came over the bridge into Richmond after some tasty Larry's enchiladas. Traffic was slow to the bridge, to OnlyForNow's point. Traffic normal once we got to the old fire station.

If you look on this page underneath the graph, it says datum 0.01. So there is no offset.

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Thanks, I figured it out last night while I was sitting on the toilet. That is where I do my best thinking, the gauge elevation is 27.04 at "0" feet. So, the correct water elevation is the gauge elevation plus gauge height.
As of 0915 this morning, the gauge height is 54.61, so the water is at 82.55 feet above MSL.

And it has not crested.

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http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=hgx&gage=rmot2

Update from Lindner at Flood Control:

Brazos River has reached 54.65ft or over 4.0 ft above the previous modern day recordcurrently 102,000cfs or 45.7 million gallons of water per minute is passing the Hwy 90 gage.

It is believed that the massive flood wave is being squeezed between the levees between HWY 90 and US 59 which is causing the river to continue to rise at Richmond. The levees were not in place in the October 1994 flood which allow the water to spread out over area which are now subdivisions.

At 900am this morning water began to overflow onto HWY 90 between the river and the New Territory subdivision. FM 723 and FM 359 along with many over roads across Fort Bend County are closed and impassable. Some subdivisions are being nearly cut-off including Pecan Grove and Kingdom Heights. The town of Thompsons has been completely cut-off.

Water is within 3.5 ft of many of the 15 different levees across Fort Bend County At this time water is not expected to overtop the levees, but they are being monitoring 24/7 for any potential issues.

Additional rainfall is likely across much of the Brazos River basin starting this afternoon and lasting into Saturday. Potential for several inches of rain on top of already severe flooding will only worsen the situation in Fort Bend and Brazoria counties. Additionally, subdivisions with levees will have to pump all of the rain water since gravity flow into the river or its tributaries is not possible at the current levels. We shall see if the pumps are able to keep up with the potential high rainfall rates of 2-3 inches per hour in the coming days.

Haven't thought about the levies constricting and backing up the river. That makes sense though.

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Haven't thought about the levies constricting and backing up the river. That makes sense though.

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This has always been our concern up river. The more developed and constricted that choke point gets the worse it is upstream.

Levees are definitely a big problem.

Man, would I love some Larry's nachos and greasy tacos about now.

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You and me both, Rick

Hello J. Hope all of you are doing well.

It appears that 90 is closed at Pitts Rd (just east of FM 359) to 99. Pretty sure all of 359 (at least the north-south section) is closed.

This is the best website for following flows at HWY and 90.

http://m.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?cb_00065=on&format=html&site_no=08114000&period=&begin_date=2016-05-31&end_date=2016-06-01

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It appears that 90 is closed at Pitts Rd (just east of FM 359) to 99. Pretty sure all of 359 (at least the north-south section) is closed.

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Only Eastbound, I think. I went through there westbound about an hour ago.

The cop wouldn't let me go westbound! I had to backtrack through Pecan Grove to Harlem, 99, then bellaire to get to 723.

River is pretty scary when standing right next to it. I live in Weston Lakes/Fulshear and have a few friends right on the river, it has back flowed into majority of the residential ditches of the back section and is up into the back of peoples yards on the river. Would probably have to rise another 3-4' to get into any homes but standing right next to it and you see how fast that water moves makes you feel pretty small.

Let's hope this next rain (at least north of us) is lighter than expected.

Tried going down Mason (should be Farmer) to cut through Texana, but cops were blocking it. Doesn't really seem like a dangerous amount of water there, though. Had to go to the Foster-Katy Road to get home.

It was pretty intimidating driving over it on the Judge Jody bridge. Impressive flow.

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The cop wouldn't let me go westbound! I had to backtrack through Pecan Grove to Harlem, 99, then bellaire to get to 723.

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That's crazy! I drove down Harlem to 90A and headed West into town. There was hardly any traffic.

Yeah that is my route to my Richmond/Needville area the last few days and it looks really wide if you view just north from that bridge. There was a good drone video of it someone posted that showed that bridge and the 59 bridge also.

I usually went 1489 to Orchard from Simonton but that closed down on Monday. With 723 shut down to 36, and 1093 (via wallis) shut down, and now 359 shut down toward 90, only real option I have is 99 unless i wanted to hoof it around 1-10 to sealy and then down 36 but 36 @ 90 is shut down also.

I think that water is moving about 20-25mph based on watching drift on it. A ton of force.

I'm working from home tomorrow.

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If you look on this page underneath the graph, it says datum 0.01. So there is no offset.

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That is the Rosharon gauge. Well downstream from Richmond.

I know. He was asking specifically about the rosharon gauge.

Thanks! Finally saw it at the bottom there, just glossed over it before.

As if we didn't have enough problems, now, in about 3 weeks, STD laden flood water will be hitting Fort Bend County.

What was the mexican word of the day?

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