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Posted: 5/26/2015 12:17:19 AM EDT

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Girlfriend just called me, and said her car has been completely flooded. She lives in the Memorial area of Houston and she had been monitoring the water level. Hadn't checked in a while and a flash flood got her car.

Posted: 5/26/2015 12:24:00 AM EDT

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Girlfriend just called me, and said her car has been completely flooded. She lives in the Memorial area of Houston and she had been monitoring the water level. Hadn't checked in a while and a flash flood got her car.

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Houston is in really bad shape right now. The storms are stalling out right over the city.

Posted: 5/26/2015 12:26:52 AM EDT

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Did I just hear 7.5 inches in a single hour?

Posted: 5/26/2015 12:35:20 AM EDT

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Texas Storm Chasers last update was 4-6" in the last 90 minutes, but Houston is getting all kinds of wet right now.

Posted: 5/26/2015 12:35:21 AM EDT

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Houston is in really bad shape right now. The storms are stalling out right over the city.

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Girlfriend just called me, and said her car has been completely flooded. She lives in the Memorial area of Houston and she had been monitoring the water level. Hadn't checked in a while and a flash flood got her car.

Houston is in really bad shape right now. The storms are stalling out right over the city.

When I was thinking about getting a hotel in College Station and waiting this out she wanted me to come back to her house. I'm glad I didn't.

Posted: 5/26/2015 12:35:46 AM EDT

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Houston is in really bad shape right now. The storms are stalling out right over the city.

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Girlfriend just called me, and said her car has been completely flooded. She lives in the Memorial area of Houston and she had been monitoring the water level. Hadn't checked in a while and a flash flood got her car.

Houston is in really bad shape right now. The storms are stalling out right over the city.

Damn, and it only takes, what? An inch of rain to flood Houston?

This thing is historic. They're saying the flooding from Shoal creek is worse than the '81 Memorial Day flood. Not to mention what's happened on the Blanco and San Marcos rivers.

A friend of mine told me last week that he heard a report that this El Nino is one of the strongest ever observed and that the projections are for a very wet fall.

We need it but can sure do without the death and destruction.

Posted: 5/26/2015 12:36:21 AM EDT

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TWC is doing a phone interview with a friend of mine right now.

Posted: 5/26/2015 12:40:16 AM EDT

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This shit is getting out of hand.

I feel like it's irresponsible to fall a sleep right now.

Posted: 5/26/2015 12:48:15 AM EDT

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I'm going to guess 12 inches of rain in west or southwest Houston by sunrise.

This shit's bad where I am.

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Posted: 5/26/2015 12:53:01 AM EDT

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I'm going to guess 12 inches of rain in west or southwest Houston by sunrise.

This shit's bad where I am.

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I got to be in Beasley by 8:00am. Are you saying I should sleep in?

Posted: 5/26/2015 12:54:17 AM EDT

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Looks fun

. I still miss Texas

. Stay safe everyone

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:00:12 AM EDT

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we got so fucked with this storm. just finished going through our area. Took a couple hours and dumped 4-5 inches. Porch/ patio had about a half inch of water flowing across it, fortunately nothing came in. We've had two to three months of constant rain and the ground around here has standing water from what seems like March. Been in this location for 6 years and never have I had this much water on the portch (live on a bit of an incline). Houston is fucked right about now and I a friend said that Lake Travis in Austin has risen over 20-25 feet in the past 14 days including 10 feet in just the past 2 days. It's still 30 feet low, but I don't expect that'll be the case by tomorrow afternoon.

It's nuts out here - our average rainfall is around 40 inches and we're at least at 30 so far, maybe even more.

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:02:07 AM EDT

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I got to be in Beasley by 8:00am. Are you saying I should sleep in?

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I'm going to guess 12 inches of rain in west or southwest Houston by sunrise.

This shit's bad where I am.

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I got to be in Beasley by 8:00am. Are you saying I should sleep in?

It depends. Do you have a boat?

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Posted: 5/26/2015 1:12:57 AM EDT

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Just got out of my pantry in Georgetown. Had a tornado on my neighborhood Saturday. Missed my house by 10 lots. Live on the South San Gabriel River. It came up 17' Saturday night. It is on the rise right now. Tornado on the ground in Georgetown right now by the dam.

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My wife's parents live just a few blocks from there.

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:15:14 AM EDT

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Wow I hope everyone stays safe. Sounds like hell is breaking loose down there.

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:15:40 AM EDT

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I'm going to guess 12 inches of rain in west or southwest Houston by sunrise.

This shit's bad where I am.

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I got to be in Beasley by 8:00am. Are you saying I should sleep in?

It depends. Do you have a boat?

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Heh. I'm supposed to head to BW8 & Bellaire tomorrow morning from San Antonio. Looks like I won't be going tomorrow.

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:16:17 AM EDT

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7 inches in Houston so far, 63,000 without power and counting

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:17:27 AM EDT

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check out the Lake Travis water levels...

http://travis.uslakes.info/Level.asp

levels there have been way, way low for 2-3 year from the drought. its gone up 13 feet in the last 2 days

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Just for the record: I calculated it takes 6.18 BILLION gallons of water to make Lake Travis go up by ONE foot.

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:21:23 AM EDT

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I finally got to edit all my pictures after everything has settled down here in the Austin suburbs. My son and I drove around after the storms had passed and took pictures and video. It was absolutely insane; I have not seen any chaos like this in the 20 years that I've lived here. Tiny creeks had turned into raging torrents. I caught a swift water rescue on video too, so let me get those posts going.

Thankfully, we were alright. My back yard had a small river running through it but we are not in a flood-prone area thankfully.

4.59" of rain in about 90 minutes, and almost 15" total now for this month.

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:24:12 AM EDT

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My wife's from Hondo in Medina county and she's wondering if the hill country got hit? We're up in Yellowstone so communication is lacking. Be safe folks!

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:25:30 AM EDT

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Swift water rescue in Pflugerville:

Picture of the dumbass that was in the car with the yellow helmet:

Just for reference, here is a picture from Google maps that's taken approximately from my vantage point:

And another picture where the car was stuck with the little ol' creek about 8 feet below the road:

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:26:50 AM EDT

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Video of the rescue:

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:28:50 AM EDT

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Crossing a bridge over what is usually a rivulet maybe two feet across and it's usually dry in the summer:

Today:

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:33:42 AM EDT

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A video of our little local park.

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:33:59 AM EDT

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This thing has stalled at the coast. It's just sitting there dumping on Houston.

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:34:54 AM EDT

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The creek in my post above and the one where the swift water rescue occurred normally looks like this:

Posted: 5/26/2015 1:38:16 AM EDT

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I wish I had gotten some good pictures when I was in the middle of that big storm in Stephenville a few weeks back. Baseball sized hail, funnel clouds like crazy, a bunch of tornado touchdowns outside of town, streets ran like rivers, it was a fun time.

Posted: 5/26/2015 2:00:50 AM EDT

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This thing has stalled at the coast. It's just sitting there dumping on Houston.

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Hasn't let up any here in Pecan Grove either.

Posted: 5/26/2015 2:39:37 AM EDT

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I'm on a hill in Austin and I'm grateful for that.
Good luck to you guys in Houston and areas in between.
I know you have a shortage of hills down there.

Posted: 5/26/2015 2:48:28 AM EDT

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Left Dallas at 8am headed west and it was raining. Got to El Paso ten hours later dry and dusty.

Posted: 5/26/2015 2:53:21 AM EDT

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Jesus Christ Houston is getting hammered.

Posted: 5/26/2015 2:53:47 AM EDT

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Abilene here. Just had a major rainstorm come across here

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I was driving thru there about that time.

Posted: 5/26/2015 3:07:51 AM EDT

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Here's a picture taken earler today near Pidcoke. I think it came right along 580, SW to NE.

http://media.graytvinc.com/images/477*350/Pidcoke-Tornado-Jemm-420-05.25.15.jpg

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Our ranch in Topsey area was right in path. I live in Austin so family is safe. Prayers for friends and neighbors in the area.

Here's a picture taken earler today near Pidcoke. I think it came right along 580, SW to NE.

http://media.graytvinc.com/images/477*350/Pidcoke-Tornado-Jemm-420-05.25.15.jpg

We have property there too. I'm going to swing by and check on it after work.

Posted: 5/26/2015 3:49:54 AM EDT

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Left Dallas at 8am headed west and it was raining. Got to El Paso ten hours later dry and dusty.

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I'm about to leave the DFW area for work right now at 3am, at least the weather in NW Oklahoma is considerably more predictable...or not

Posted: 5/26/2015 7:19:24 AM EDT

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Man Houston had a rough nite, Floodmagedon 2015

Posted: 5/26/2015 7:34:26 AM EDT

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Hasn't let up any here in Pecan Grove either.

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This thing has stalled at the coast. It's just sitting there dumping on Houston.

Hasn't let up any here in Pecan Grove either.

I'm in Long Meadow Farms. Come have a beer.

Posted: 5/26/2015 7:34:58 AM EDT

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Word is we're getting pulled from here and head to assist in water rescues in and around Houston. Almost nobody here for work today at the refinery. Crazy...

Posted: 5/26/2015 9:41:24 AM EDT

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Report I heard this morning was 4 dead, 12 missing...and more rain expected throughout the week. Damn.

If El Nino caused this...I can't wait for hurricane season.

Posted: 5/26/2015 11:17:23 AM EDT

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No flooding at work in Dallas, but we came in this morning, power lines were down in the parking lot. Telephone lines down to the house.

Luckily, there are two sets of lines on the same pole. Ours comes in on the top set, so we still have power.

Posted: 5/26/2015 11:18:06 AM EDT

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Austin's forecast looks decent for the majority of the week. 40-50% chance of rain for the weekend and then dry again after that.

Posted: 5/26/2015 11:22:08 AM EDT

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Report I heard this morning was 4 dead, 12 missing...and more rain expected throughout the week. Damn.

If El Nino caused this...I can't wait for hurricane season.

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I think there's less chance for hurricanes during an El Nino.

Posted: 5/26/2015 11:23:34 AM EDT

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Here's
an interesting thought for people around Austin: Lake Travis has gone up
about 30 feet since the beginning of the year. I had previously
calculated that it takes 6.18 BILLION gallons of water to make Lake
Travis go up one foot, so that is roughly 185 BILLION gallons of water
recently. We can all agree that this amount of water is mind-boggling.

If gallons were dollars, the federal government would have spent that in TWENTY DAYS.

Posted: 5/26/2015 11:27:40 AM EDT

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I used to live in Wimberley, Wood Creek to be exact.

I think we have at least one member that live sin Wimberley, Hope he and his family are OK.

stay safe Texans!!

Posted: 5/26/2015 11:37:07 AM EDT

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Just for the record: I calculated it takes 6.18 BILLION gallons of water to make Lake Travis go up by ONE foot.

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check out the Lake Travis water levels...

http://travis.uslakes.info/Level.asp

levels there have been way, way low for 2-3 year from the drought. its gone up 13 feet in the last 2 days

Just for the record: I calculated it takes 6.18 BILLION gallons of water to make Lake Travis go up by ONE foot.

Well, that graph looks like it's gone up 25-30 feet this month.

Posted: 5/26/2015 11:42:21 AM EDT

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Any word on how far Lake LBJ has come up?

My exwife's family has a ranch just north of Sunrise Beach, right on the shore.

Posted: 5/26/2015 11:46:31 AM EDT

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Any word on how far Lake LBJ has come up?

My exwife's family has a ranch just north of Sunrise Beach, right on the shore.

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That's a constant level lake. It doesn't fluctuate very much. Once it starts going up, they release it downstream to Travis. I'm sure the floodgates have been open a lot.