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3:12p, 4/21/16
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just walked barkers dam at buffalo bayou and HWY6, looks to be about half way up. Gates closed waiting for downstream to chill out. Walked down to the bayou via fleetwood and it is at normal levels. Pretty much 0 flooding in fleetwood on monday other than some slight street flooding due to blocked storm drains. Basically it will take a catastrophic fail of the dam gates or earth to flood my neighborhood considering we got 10inches in one night.

now if we get 10inches in one night before they can start releasing water you will see me GTFO very very quickly.
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3:29p, 4/21/16
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Looks like some rain tonight and then it'll be dry until Monday. Time for everything to drain.

Most likely nothing will happen, but they've got to drain Ad****s to reopen 6. That's going to kill my commute for weeks.
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3:40p, 4/21/16
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With the election this year, that could become the poster child for "America's crumbling infrastructure."
Oh boy, I can't wait to be a poster child for Hillary and the Donald to blame each other over.
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3:54p, 4/21/16
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HCFCD just issued a release that Bear Creek Village (just east of 6 and north of Clay ) is beginning to flood from Ad****s overflow. Perimeter homes are the most at risk and roads may be impassable for the next few days.
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3:57p, 4/21/16
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So is this a bad situation or not?

One on here says it is then someone else says it's not. Then one says it is and the next says it's not.

Do we know anything for certain or are we all just guessing?
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4:00p, 4/21/16
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If the walls fail it is very very bad. If they do not a few 40 year old houses will get remodeled.

If you live North of Park Row on Hwy 6 your commute is ****ed for the next 2 months.
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4:00p, 4/21/16
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If they don't release everything west will continue to flood
If they release before downstream has drained then east will flood.

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In reply to Ag_07 • 4:01p, 4/21/16
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Do we know anything for certain or are we all just guessing?

I think you know the answer to this...
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4:01p, 4/21/16
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I guess it was obvious but I requested confirmation from USGS regarding what the gage values actually represent. This was their response:

Yes. To verify that information, from the Originating page URL inquiry, select "Summary of All Available Data" in the pull-down menu for "Available data for this site". Information about the reference datum can be found under "Description": "Datum of gage: 00 feet above NAVD88"; where NAVD88 is the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (commonly called mean sea level of 1988).

So the depth of the Bayou and dam reservoirs is actually reported against mean sea level in 1988 (go figure). Hence the Bayou at HW6 showing around 56ft when I could walk across it! (not today I might add) It also explains media hysteria over the dam depth at present. It's really only about 10-15ft deep at present (above 'normal' levels). Not 60 as mentioned by the media.
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4:01p, 4/21/16
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An update is the Corps anticipates initiating releases from Ad****s and Barkers reservoirs within the next 24-48 hours, based on favorable weather conditions. Release rates and downstream conditions will be monitored to minimize impacts downstream. There are no foreseen impacts to residential structures due to releases from the dams.

Without Division Engineer approval, the maximum allowable release from both reservoirs, combined with the uncontrolled runoff downstream, is 4,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) at the Piney Point Road gauging station, located 10.7 channel miles below Barker Dam. Ad****s Dam has a maximum discharge capacity of 7,852 cfs and Barker Dam 8,734 cfs.

As of early this morning, the Ad****s Reservoir has reached elevation 102.07', 90.7% of its government-owned land storage capacity is occupied and 58% of the total reservoir capacity occupied. The Barker Reservoir has reached elevation of 94.79', 97% of its government-owned land storage capacity occupied and 38.4% of the total reservoir capacity occupied. It is expected that both will rise by a foot or two if no additional rain occurs.
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4:06p, 4/21/16
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To reiterate
The dams are closed and are not releasing water until downstream is good. They project 24-48 hours if no major rain and the will release a combined 4000cfs down buffalo from both dams
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4:10p, 4/21/16
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If you read the Dam Master Plan at http://www.swg.usace.army.mil/Missions/DamSafetyProgram.aspx, you can get most of this info.

These heights are NAVD 2001

Currently, the water level behind the Dam is at 102.28 feet.
HWY 6 is at 96.16 feet not 56 feet.
It starts backing back up in to neighborhoods at 103.20 feet. That is when it gets out of the government owned land. Currently, that is another 12,000 acre feet of water to add.
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4:45p, 4/21/16
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Is anyone in the Gosling/99 area? Or at least know about the conditions... Going up there later today and I'm trying to figure out which way I need to go.
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In reply to shano0603 • 4:48p, 4/21/16
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Is anyone in the Gosling/99 area? Or at least know about the conditions... Going up there later today and I'm trying to figure out which way I need to go.
It's clear.
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In reply to shano0603 • 4:49p, 4/21/16
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Is anyone in the Gosling/99 area? Or at least know about the conditions... Going up there later today and I'm trying to figure out which way I need to go.

Was on Gosling last night. Went over to Kuykendal to 99 to 45. Saw traffic going towards 290 as well.
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In reply to Texaggie7nine • 4:51p, 4/21/16
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Is anyone in the Gosling/99 area? Or at least know about the conditions... Going up there later today and I'm trying to figure out which way I need to go.

Was on Gosling last night. Went over to Kuykendal to 99 to 45. Saw traffic going towards 290 as well.
What were you doing up in my next of the woods? I think I'm heading down to your's in a little bit to watch the Rockets lose again.
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In reply to The Wonderer • 4:54p, 4/21/16
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Is anyone in the Gosling/99 area? Or at least know about the conditions... Going up there later today and I'm trying to figure out which way I need to go.
It's clear.
Appreciate it...I no longer have to "Wonder."
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In reply to The Wonderer • 4:55p, 4/21/16
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Is anyone in the Gosling/99 area? Or at least know about the conditions... Going up there later today and I'm trying to figure out which way I need to go.

Was on Gosling last night. Went over to Kuykendal to 99 to 45. Saw traffic going towards 290 as well.
What were you doing up in my next of the woods? I think I'm heading down to your's in a little bit to watch the Rockets lose again.
Helping the GF drop some international visitors off from the airport.

I'm headed to Toyota center to watch em lose.
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6:05p, 4/21/16
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2100 sqft of laminate and 2 bedrooms worth of carpet ruined from flooding Monday.
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6:08p, 4/21/16
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That Blows dead bears dude.
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6:19p, 4/21/16
Sorry to hear that drummer.

On the bright side, at least your driveway should be good for another year or so.

jk (ours is just as bad if not worse)
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6:23p, 4/21/16
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Just saw on Channel 13 that water is now being released from the Barker Reservoir.
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In reply to drummer0415 • 6:45p, 4/21/16
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Need more pics of the chick to decide if that's the only "flooding damage" that should have occurred.
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In reply to drummer0415 • 7:10p, 4/21/16
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7:21p, 4/21/16
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In reply to Mr. McGibblets • 7:22p, 4/21/16
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Look at the shoes. That's not her ass.
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In reply to Scruffy • 7:23p, 4/21/16
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Need more pics of the chick to decide if that's the only "flooding damage" that should have occurred.
nm. Too much.
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7:25p, 4/21/16
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I thought butt as well until the shoes
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7:25p, 4/21/16
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Shoes?
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In reply to Ryan the Temp • 7:39p, 4/21/16
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Need more pics of the chick to decide if that's the only "flooding damage" that should have occurred.
If you wreck that *****, does it count as flood damage?

If it'll get me a new couch, dinner table, mattress, la-z-boy, coffee table, and flooring; I hope so.
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7:39p, 4/21/16
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Lol that's definitely her front in the picture.

And I should have known that nothing gets by you guys.
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7:47p, 4/21/16
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Flight cancelled so now I can't get back until 3pm tomorrow. Is it that bad still? Wife said it cleared up.
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In reply to drummer0415 • 7:51p, 4/21/16
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Lol that's definitely her front in the picture.

And I should have known that nothing gets by you guys.


Given all you have been through, glad to see you are in good spirits.
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In reply to agdaddy04 • 7:56p, 4/21/16
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You're stuck in Chicago, enjoy the hell out of that! <333
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In reply to kubiak03 • 8:12p, 4/21/16
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I thought butt as well until the shoes


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