Now there's a confirmed powerful tornado on the ground in western Blanco Co. in Round Mountain on 281 right now and may be heading toward Spicewood where we live.  Hope the cabin doesn't turn into a houseboat.

For those volunteering:

its pretty sporty up here again...

We just got 5" of rain in an hour.

Shoal Creek in downtown Austin is flooded.  Looks like it's 1981 all over again.  House Park is flooded.  My work backs up to Shoal Creek, wonder if it's flooded.

Just got home (Austin) from new braunfels and it was dumping the hole time!  Blanco and San Marcos rivers did not get up to the bridge though (thankfully)

I played football and ran track at House Park as a teenager. It's now 6' under water. I just watched them rescue the guy clinging to the telephone pole.

My lawyer's office is on 13th. Hope he didn't flood.

I'm standing on the back deck here on Travis watching deer looking in awe at the rising water level on the grass land where they normally browse.  They weren't even born the last time Travis had this much water in it.

Travis 650.67 feet and rising ! 631 last Saturday morning ! 20+ feet in one weekend !

From the LCRA site;

Llano River at Llano 5/25/2015 6:40 PM20,760.5 CFS 6,299 CFS yesterday

Pedernales River near Johnson City 5/25/2015 6:40 PM17,094.2 CFS 6,438 CFS yesterday

Those are big slugs of water !

The .gov people are Wimberley today we're talking flow rates in excess of 140-150,000 cfs the other night..

WOW, it's terrible that much water hit the Blanco. It would have been so much better up on the Highland
Lakes watershed.

I was in marching band in HS in the late '80s and marched in House Park many times.  

So my oldest daughter and I ventured downtown to see the carnage.  5th and 6th streets were both closed at Lamar and Rio Grande.  There was water over the street on 6th right in front of GSD&M and I could see a car stuck in it with water halfway up the door.  Turned to go north on Lamar which was shut down at 9th St.  Water was up to the gas pump handles at the 7-11 on the corner of Lamar & 10th.  No doubt 7-11, Shoal Creek Saloon, and the businesses across from them were flooded.

I was eventually able to make it to my work building which backs up to Shoal Creek.  Water was about a foot under the arch of the 6th St. bridge over Shoal Creek.  I talked to an APD officer that was there and he said it had peaked about an hour before we got there and was receding as quickly as it had risen.  He said the water never actually went over the 6th bridge but was ~6" below the street surface because the creek had spread out over other areas.  My work did not get flooded but water had gotten real close to the foundation.  When we got there the walkway along Shoal Creek was submerged several feet but when we left 45 minutes later was already out from the water.  I'm sure House Park and the whole Lamar & 10th St. is a mucky mess.  Lady Bird Lake looked fairly swollen.

I thought the rain was past us.  Last time I checked radar was a couple of hours ago and it looked everything was well on its way to the coast.  For the past half hour I thought I was hearing airliners overhead but it's thunder.  Just went outside and it's raining again (albeit a light rain) with a good amount of thunder and lightning.

I just read KXAN 36 News about the twelve people missing in Wimberley.  Damn tragic as they all appeared to be good people which is getting rare theses days.
One man who lost his wife and kids was able to crawl out 12 miles downstream in San Marcos.  They were in a house that floated away until it broke up.  Their dog was found stuck in the top of a tree.

I read the article today about the floods in Texas and specifically in Wimberley on MSN. The comments are unbelievable. The red appears to be a sad but true  statement.

I just read where they found one of the missing victims bodies, a man, on the Blanco in front of a friend's house that I'm sure is no longer there.  My friend and his wife had a large track of riverfront and were trying to decide where to build.  I suggested a place on a beautiful stretch where crystal clear water ran  2-3' of over a broad flat limestone bottom with looming limestone bluff on the other side. They have since moved but I have that stretch of river cutting into the mountain as my screen saver.  I had a hunch they would find someone there.

Is this the spot at the end of Flight Acres or further down?

Further down I believe, at the end of Water Park Road.  It's part of River Mountain Ranch, past where Lone Man Creek empties into the Blanco.