Floods in Texas
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Topic: Floods in Texas
Posted By: TramwayGuy
Subject: Floods in Texas
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 12:07pm
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Here’s hoping the worst is over for the folks along the Guadalupe River. I can’t believe that any river can rise 25 feet in less than one hour. So sad for the families of the lost. |
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Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 1:02pm
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Praying for them |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 1:12pm
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thats terrible.... Summer camp for girl- kids... 2 dozen drowned. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 1:48pm
| That is so sad,,,, just head shaking,, |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 2:40pm
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We are about an hour or so north of the line where the heavy rain started. San Angelo, got over 10” late Thursday nite into early Friday morning, with heavier amounts south and east towards Kerrville. Supposedly the campground management was told to evacuate, but failed to do so. ‘Camp Mystic’, private all-girls retreat, patronized for decades by Texas ‘upper echelon’ daughters of the movers and shakers of the Lone Star State. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 3:06pm
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I was surprised that no warnings were issued ? ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 4:39pm
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Nobody had any idea of this on the 10 PM news.... Flood started coming up at 3 am.. rose 30 ft in an hour... Not much time to warn or evacuate..... Just a bad place for a Camp Ground. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 4:52pm
Good place for Camp, just as at Shut Ins or Current River, just have to be aware and wary. Prayers lifted here for those that perished and their families.
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steve(ill) wrote:Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 5:46pm
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In July 1987, there was similar flood thru that exact campground, 10 girls lost their lives. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2025 at 8:49pm
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they have a FLASH FLOOD like every 5- 10 years that rises 20- 30 ft.. Lots of destruction and death when it occures.... but not that often. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2025 at 6:13am
| A tragedy! Blame is always pointed in these tragedies. Personal Responsibility! Weather reports were available. Living among tornadoes, ice storms and blizzards. I check the weather many times daily. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2025 at 8:44am
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besides the girls at camp, there were SEVERAL DOZN other people that were lost... THOUSAND that were stranded on roof tops and trees... they have had FLOODING before, but NEVER had the water raise at this rate.......... look out YOUR window and assume the water came up 30 ft in ONE HOUR... think of the WIDTH of the river and how you would get away within MINUTES... Looking ahead, SOME might have expected the river to rise to 15- 20 ft... I dont think ANYONE was expecting 35 ft.  ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2025 at 9:12am
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At this moment, I am in a campground in Gatesville TX, just on the north side of Fort Hood. All the local media has countless teams of reporters now in the area, of course those media personalities would lift a finger to help out anybody with recovery/cleanup, but I digress, the interviews that I have seen, its pretty clear everybody who is somebody, is in ‘CYA Mode’. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2025 at 10:33am
| My oldest Son was stationed at Ft.Bliss Texas. When visiting I observed dry canals throughout the area. When I asked my son about them,he said they get tremendous flash floods from storms coming from the Pacific and people don't want to be caught near one of the canals during a storm. A friend lived in Dallas and agreed! |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2025 at 1:34pm
| Reminded me of the Dry Arroyos in TX, AZ, NM and UT, flash flood to tens of feet in minutes, do not want to be anywhere near as rains come on. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2025 at 7:31pm
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Praying for the families who have lost or are missing loved ones and also for the rescue personnel who are having to deal with this tragedy. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |