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yeah ouch.Originally Posted by Traffic
here's what weather.com says about ABIA right now
Precip: 1.88 in (est.)
Bad news: MetroRail won't be running tomorrow. Somebody alert M1EK!
i'm sure they can notify all 4 passengers individually.
i put a 8 inch tall cup in my back yard yesterday before it started raining...its overflowing now...just west of downtown fort worth...and no end in sight...
Where can I find a useful flood warning/road closure map online? Or is that wishful thinking?
http://www.kvue.com/traffic
not necessarily what you're looking for maybe.
this might be better for another thread, but AISD cracks me up with their stark refusal to ever start late. there's flooding all over town, traffic, at 6:30 in the morning is already a problem, and they plan on going forward with their normal schedule while every other district seems to be delaying except hays. but localized flooding in hays hasn't been as bad as all over the austin area. the teachers are going to call in unable to get to work, the district is going to have to call in a shit ton of subs and a lot of students are going to be late. just boneheaded stupid stubbornness.
Georgetown is furked.
Emptied my rain gauge at 8pm last night - it had 3.8" in it.
This morning it was overflowing at 5".
The TV weatherturds displayed a graphic that showed the I-35 corridor from far north Austin to Jarrell getting 10" - 12" since yesterday.
I got these off the USGS website.
San Gabriel River in Georgetown
Onion Creek in Austin
Blanco River in Kyle
What have you done! You know he has an RSS feed search of his name. Any minute now he'll be fucking up this thread.
Thank goodness we still got people driving around barricades at the low water crossings. Wouldn't want people to stop being stupid.
Unfortunately, the stupid ones sometimes come with a nice snatch.
Some fascinating shit yesterday evening and overnight. Just watching that train form way south of San Antonio and continuing to churn northward. Sucks that there was property and lives lost.
"Quiet night"? (one of my previous posts). Fuck that guy!
Always a surprise with tropical cyclones. This one seemed to save its "fuck off, beyotches" for overnight. The system happened to be moving north at pretty much exactly the rate the showers were moving east. Result? Training of rain bands to Biblican proportions.
Most everyone in the strip which is exactly as wide as Hays/Travis/Williamson/Bell/etc. (about 60 m.) got at least 8" if not up to 16"!!!! The missus and I were up untll damn near 3 making sure the back patio didn't become a lake and seep into the house. I was struck watching the weather guys (running 24/7 during that stretch) take so many reports of feet of water plowing into house after house, often ones which never even saw a puddle of flood before. Lots of people are dealing with inches or even feet of water in their homes.
Fuck off, Hermine. Bitch.
http://www.kvue.com/news/Northwest-A...102421379.html
2 women drove around this one, and one is missing. I guess she and her Lexus SUV decided waiting for mother nature just wasnt worth it
This is wild. 15 inches in Georgetown and no school at all today.
My dad and I are supposed to go to work today in Bellville, but everything around here ( Round Rock) seems to be shutdown, and Bellville looks to be setup for more rain. This shit looks like its gonna go into the afternoon.
http://www.cocorahs.org/Maps/ViewMap.aspx?state=TX
see rain totals in your area.
my 6" gauge was topped out.
That's sort of what Jim Spencer said at 6:30 last nite...given the speed of the depression moving northward, we'd be spared of any serious flooding v. the thing stalling out over the hill country."Quiet night"? (one of my previous posts). Fuck that guy!
No one envisioned that rain tail from hell that must have stretched 100+ miles south of Austin and just continued to envelop Austin and surrounding areas.
thanks for the link miguel...good stuff
seriously, that rain tail just hammered austin for hours. i've never seen anything like it. when i saw it coming at about 9 last night, i knew we were in for a blow.
thankfully no water made its way into my house but there was about a 3ft high water mark along my back fence.
The overnight totals are staggering. When I went to bed the train kept backbuilding SW of SA. You wont see that sort of rain rate for that duration for a long time to come. This is historic for a metropolitan area. 15+ inches estimated by radar in a largely urbanized part of Texas (NW Austin/RR)
I am very happy to live on a hill right now. Looks like about 9 inches in our area. And also
That's when you skip class.Fuck you. hen that bitch hit SA hard enough to shut down most of the city I had to PUSH mostly uphill through that shit for a solid 10 fucking mins... with no umbrella... sitting on my fucking book and notes to keep them from getting wet.
Northern Travis County and southern Williamson County were pretty much the epicenter:
That was the crazy thing. It just kept filling in without any gaps. Paradise last nite if you're a person that's fascinated by a doppler lit up like a Christmas tree.When I went to bed the train kept backbuilding SW of SA.
is this hundred year floodplain kind of event here? honestly, this storm was a bitch.
Always an interesting drive over the Mopac bridge at Barton Creek. Looks like this will be near the 5th highest crest in history at 13.5 feet. 26 feet must have been a bitch of a flood back in 1929.
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydro...,1,1,1,1,1,1,1
Salado is furked, got a coworker that lives just east of there in a new development and he's stuck. The stores along the salado river had at least 4 feet of water in them at some point last night. We have roughly 24 roads and intersections shut down here in Killeen ATM, and the weather radio just went off extending the flood warning until noon. It said we have another 2 inches coming. Guess I'll be spending some quality time with star craft 2 today.
Needs to be noted: I'm pretty sure that band south and west extending down to Uvalde will have to push through Austin before all is said and done. It may not stay together and probably not near as intense (like this thread), but will exacerbate some ongoing problems for some small streams...if it stays together. We're talking another 2-3 inches per hour kinda stuff here!
Makes me glad I'm on a hill, but the lightning was a BIG worry last night.
FLASH*BOOM*
Round Rock looks to be getting some more here any minute now, and the radar shows its all red and seems to be intensifying.
yeah, you aren't too far to the south of me. my dog wasn't in any mood but the shaking kind.
Anyone seen a link to a loop last nite from 7-ish to 7-ish this morning?
I was looking at the radar last night around 10:30-11:00 and thought our place off Manchaca/Slaughter might be entering a dry patch as the line was moving NNE. I checked back 15 minutes later and the bastard had filled in and the line was as wide as Travis County.
I seem to remember a photo from an epic Austin flood in a book on Austin history that my grandmother had. I'm pretty sure it was the 1929 flood. The photo was of a 2-story house floating down the Colorado River. Crazy. Can anyone confirm or find the photo?
jesus christ, another red band moving nne longways this morning. looks like it might miss me here in southside, but roundrock area might be totally fucked
Actually, lookin' at 500 year.
you live right near me.
more 1935 flood pics here:
http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasRiv...od-of-1935.htm
Just found this about the flood of 1921. It sounds like history is repeating itself.
http://www.texasescapes.com/MikeCoxT...exas-Flood.htm
An excerpt...
The first day it started raining, people took it as good news.
“Central Texas Drouth Ends,” the Sept. 9, 1921 Austin Statesman proclaimed. The page-one story’s first paragraph set the scene: “Breaking a drouth that had prevailed for more than two months, drying up small streams and water holes and causing heavy losses to farmers and stockmen, rain …began falling throughout Central Texas early this morning.”
By noon that Friday, the weather station at the University of Texas had measured 1.3 inches, the first measurable rainfall in the capital city since July 8.
The meteorological factors leading to the drouth-breaker began the morning of September 6, when a tropical storm developed in the Bay of Campeche. By afternoon, the storm had compacted, with towering rain-filled clouds swirling around a small eye. The storm would have become even more powerful had it been farther out in the Gulf of Mexico with more time over warm water, but prevailing winds pushed it ashore at Vera Cruz only 24 hours after its birth.
After lashing that coastal city, the rain-swollen system veered northward to Texas. Crossing the Rio Grande the night of September 7, the storm decreased in strength but remained pregnant with precipitation as it drifted toward the parched, unsuspecting middle of the state.
Yeah, I've always figured we live pretty close. And thanks for the pic. That flood was ridiculous.you live right near me.
more 1935 flood pics here:
http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasRiv...od-of-1935.htm
Here's some interesting info from the Barton Creek hydrology site...sounds like it has to be really, really massive for the 100-year shit:is this hundred year floodplain kind of event here? honestly, this storm was a bitch.
Flood Impacts Collapse
26 ft FLOW IS NEAR THE USGS 1:100 YR FLOOD LEVEL (26 FEET - 44,400 CFS). DISASTROUS FLOODING REACHES SEVERAL HOMES IN THE LOWER FLOOD PLAIN. STREETS...ROADS AND BRIDGES ARE VERY DANGEROUS TO MOTORISTS. BARTON SPRINGS IS SEVERELY DAMAGED
25 ft FLOW REACHES THE USGS 1:50 YR FLOOD LEVEL (34,200 CFS). MAJOR FLOODING SEVERELY DAMAGES BARTON SPRINGS POOL DOWNSTREAM. ROADS... STREETS AND BRIDGES ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TO MOTORISTS. LOWEST RESIDENCES ARE THREATENED
23 ft MAJOR...VERY DANGEROUS FLOODING OCCURS. MANY STREETS AND BRIDGES ABOVE LOOP 360 TO THE COLORADO RIVER ARE VERY DANGEROUS - NEARING THE USGS 1:50 FOOT FLOOD LEVEL. BARTON SPRINGS POOL IS SEVERELY DAMAGED. LOWEST RESIDENCES ARE THREATENED
Wow the similarites there are significant ^^^
SW of SA seeing almost 4 in per hr rainfall rates!!
Barton Creek forecasted to crest at 14 feet. I can't imagine that 25 or 26 feet shit.
The City of Georgetown Emergency Operations Center was activated at 2 AM. The 3 forks of the San Gabriel River here crested at 3:45 AM. Lake Georgetown has risen nearly 12 feet since yesterday. The GFD has made several swift water rescues. We have at least one area where homes were flooded that are in the ".02% chance" flood zone (formerly the 500 year).
Now, DFW is getting it. Looks heavy with no end in sight.
Prayers to all you Austin hill country folks.
has a firecane been detected yet?
Well, it wasn't raining at 2222/360 when I got to work this morning, but it's starting up again.
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