We've been riding this out in Silver Ridge and so far the levees are holding and rain has stopped. We were able to venture a bit down sienna pkwy and there was quite a bit of street flooding in the neighborhoods off the pkwy. Made it down to water lakes before turning around so I apologize for not having a more detailed report. We will try and get out there tomorrow morning and if you want to PM addresses I'll try and make a pass to take pictures.

Was it passable to get back further to Sawmill Lake area? My father-in-law's home is back there but he evacuated already. Wondering how bad it is.

We stopped at Waters Lake but you could definitely continue down Sienna pkwy Further into the back. We'll venture out again tomorrow and see how the back parts are fairing.

There is some YouTube footage from the last few days of flooding in sienna. Sawmill lake looked okay but there was some street flooding in front of the model homes and the roundabout. Lots of street flooding with the lakes around the golf courses. There are some homes likely with water in them that I saw on drone footage but I had a hard time getting bearings. I suspect it is somewhere near the steep bank creek levees bordering Riverstone.

Both of these videos are from today.

Heard 2 or 3 helicopters going past my home this afternoon and early evening...there were some rooftop rescues out in Sienna, apparently.

If anyone can get toward camp sienna I'd love an update. We are right off Stella's passage on the south side of camp sienna trail. Not super optimistic but holding out hope. No worries if it's impossible to get down there.

We'll try our best tomorrow to get pictures or at the very least, an update on how close we can get.

Thanks midtown!

Any updates this morning? Word is they are still worried about the levees breaking and telling people not to come back???

https://m.facebook.com/fbcoem/posts/10154801534456269?platform=hootsuite

I'm guessing this is the levee for steep bank creek for some of the homes off of sienna ranch and near Riverstone.

As of 915 am, Brazos crest lowered to 56 feet.

Camp Sienna was still high water in roads, right by the pool and community center. They are using the community center as a staging point. They said water has receded to mostly street flooding, but it just depends on where your house is and how the levees react to the Brazos cresting. I took some video but I have no idea how to post the dang thing so if you want to PM your cell I'll send it over and you may have more luck getting it on this board.

Brazos projections down to 56', cresting tomorrow at 10AM.

Definitely good news, let's keep this going in this direction.

Anyone see Judge Heberts update?

Video from this morning looking into the eastern part of Riverstone from the bridge between sienna and Riverstone.

Brazos 53.78 as of 1215pm.

Still going to crest at 56' on Friday?

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

I think it'll be tomorrow based on the grap. I'm hoping they lower the expected crest another foot or so and they may let us back in for certain sections.

Man I hope so!

54.11 feet as of 415pm. The record was 54.7 last summer, so getting close.

Channel 2 showing aerial footage from the chopper.

Widespread devastation. Amazing the amount of water throughout the area.

Thoughts and prayers to you guys out there. Gonna be a long road to recovery.

Anyone have a link to the beginning of the video? I didn't catch the live shots until there were close to 59.

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Anyone have a link to the beginning of the video? I didn't catch the live shots until there were close to 59.

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KHOU showed some aerial footage of something they were calling sienna plantation and it was a ****ing trailer park and farmland.

Brazos at 54.26 as of 615pm.

Not great quality because it is someone filming their TV, but I found it here: https://www.facebook.com/meschelle.woodkrejci/posts/10214180306329631

So it looks like major street flooding and maybe some low levels of water in some houses in the western half. It looked like they were showing the western half of sawmill lake and then some of the homes on the western most portion off of scanlan trace. I saw video from abc13 and it looked like the further from the Brazos the drier it was.

For those of y'all that where living here last year how close where these streets to flooding? I've seen video of the sports complex under water from last years flood but not heard anything about the streets being like this. Obviously this is a bigger event, but just curious.

Didn't live here last year but I'm sure this is way worse. The sports complex is designed to flood as it is on the other side of the levee. Hopefully this mofo will crest tomorrow so we can go home soon.

I have lived in Sienna for 11 years and I don't ever remember the streets flooding. And we have been through at least 3 very high Brazos water events. The record of 54.7' last year did not even seem like a high stress event and i don't think there was any significant street flooding.

I know this forum is set up to help people and provide information, but I have some serious questions for whomever makes our decisions for us:

1. Sienna improvement spending- why are we spending so much money on artificial turf for la cross and baseball fields rather than preparing for a 800 or 1000 year flood? I get it Sienna, you did not anticipate such an event, but I want to be prepared for the worst. How does the cost of one or two new pumps stations compare to 2 artificial fields. Thank God the levees were increased a few feet a couple of years ago, or Sienna would look like the worst of Katrina.

2. Why are we spending money on new turning lanes that don't appear to have any significant value add and have caused commuting problems for some time? See above.

3. So Sienna was designed to funnel flood waters to the southwest side (were I live and houses have been significantly flooded) and this was not disclosed before...like when i was deciding where to build?

4. How are our decision makers determined and what can we do to replace them?

Sorry for the rant that does not help our current situation, but I am pissed.

Your frustrations are real and I respect them all. My only comment is that you never design to a 1,000 year flood criteria because simply put the costs to do so would be so high and put a burden on the tax base which frankly already does innour neighborhood as is. The solution would not be cheap as it isn't simply about adding more pumps because you still have the issue outside of Sienna's borders of where would you pump the water to?

We have a 1,000 year flood event here and compared to much of our city our neighborhood has held up well. I feel bad for some sections who are suffering right now and I hope I'm not coming off as unsympathetic but you can't design to prevent something that has a 0.001% chance of happening. Nobody does.

To the rest of your points you and I agree, we waste a lot of money on stupid crap. The turf lacrosse and youth baseball fields is stupid. Changing out flowers every 4 weeks is a waste. And a laundry list of other things we are forced to pay for is irritating and I am with you there. For the money spent on such things the levee improvement and added drainage improvements would have been much more wise. After this is behind us there needs to be a town hall meeting to re-set the bar on what's important out here I believe.

BTW, Another factor, the Richmond Brazos data location is 14 miles from us upstream, the Rosharon one is 5.5 miles from us downstream. The Rosharon one is staying they have already crested and are going down.

http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=hgx&gage=rost2