The 4th got washed away

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    Hi, Took a day to get the internet back. The town I live in (Kerrville) had a flash flood starting at 0300 on the 4th. It was a true flash flood. The river has a flood height of 9'. It crested locally at 23'. It went from normal to 15' flood level in 45 minutes and rose through the day to 23 feet before starting to recede at 0830. Folks downriver monitored the rise and saw a 6' rise in 15 minutes. The water got to within a half block of our place. There were 2 houses at the end of the block, both built up on raised lots that got water inside. Our little subdivision is 3 miles SE of Kerrville


    The only road in and out of our area had over 4' of water running on it. All of the properties on the river side of that road got hammered hard. I am surprised that the 2 doublewides on their lots are still there. Those were put on raised berms 3'+ above street level. Everything else on the property is gone though except what washed up onto the lots. A guy had a "tiny house" several conex containers and about 4 vehicles including a 12 ton PU as well as a ton of salvaged items. It's all gone now His neighbor had a 2 story renovated house. There is a toyota PU lodged in their first floor. The walls of the first floor of the house perpendicular to the river were either washed away or peeled back like a cardboard box. One guy has a house built on 15" diameter concrete filled pilons and the house is over 15' above ground. His house is still there but debris is washed half way up the stairs. All his vehicles under the house as well as his conex storage container and several bee hives are all gone. A quarter mile down the road were some guys who had a landscaping business and a couple 5th wheel trailers they lived in. Their equipment and trailers are just gone. We drove a mile and a half down the river road last night and could not see any sign of the trailers or their equipment. They had a medium sized backhoe and another tractor.


    Huge oak trees are uprooted or have the bark stripped from the upriver side of the trunk.


    I'd post a pic but the site says it is too big and I reduced it to under 900kb, as far as I could.

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    Holy cow.


    This is the time of year for it. We can fish from our porch for a few weeks this time of year. Every year.

    I'm not certain I want membership in a club with standards so low as to allow me membership.

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    Here's you're pic, Maverick




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    Tried to post this pic on the forum but it was too big. This was taken 1/3 of the way down the block towards the river. The only road out is 3' or more under that water past the oak tree. That river went from normal to flooding in less than 45 minutes. We're talking gaining 5' over flood level of 9' in a half hour, cresting to 23' over flood. Water flow went from about 50 CU FT a second to over 250,000 cu ft a second before cresting.


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    I saw interviews with people where they said they got the "Amber Alert" style alarm on their phones, but they dismissed it. The problem with these alerts is that there are so many Amber Alerts that they are almost weekly - people turn them off, or ignore them. They are too common.

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    Here is a video that does a great jopbn of showing the camp area near and around Hunt. That is about 30 miles NW of where I am.


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    As to warnings, get a grip you don't have a fucking clue. The river went from normal to 15' ABOVE flood stage in less than 45 minutes in the very early morning hours. Forecast rain was for less than 6" of rain over the night and day. They got 12" plus before noon starting at 0300 hours. This is rural country, not some big metropolis with air raid sirens. Radar coverage of the storm showed a tropical storm level of rainfall in a spot where the storm swirled around for hours dropping multiple inches of rain per hour.


    People talk flash floods, this was a flash flood on meth, roids, fentanyl and cocaine.


    I watched this news story last night. It speaks for itself.


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    Just like the California fires. These great geniuses pop up all over the place saying how it could have been prevented. It can't ever be that it's just an incredible event that nobody could have prepared for.

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    So the area is not on a flood map. It has flooded there in the past; 1936,1952,1972,1973,1978,1987,1991 and 1997. Zero reasons to monitor river levels there. 26 feet in 45 minutes. Hard to outrun that WITH a warning.


    Much like the people along the river in NC they were fucked when they decided to stay the night there.


    Hopefully they learn from this and protect those camps with some sort of technology and an evac route up the nearest hill.

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    In 1928 a hurricane planted itself above Lake Okeechobee and dumped biblical proportioned water upon the lake. The resulting floods killed more than 3000 white folk.


    No one bothered to count the negroes.

    I'm not certain I want membership in a club with standards so low as to allow me membership.