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Old 10-18-2018, 09:49 PM
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Central Texas has been hit pretty hard lately. I did not think it was to bad until I heard the Llano River was up to the bridge on Hwy 16. Now this is a lot of water:



Also heard that Lake Travis, down in Austin, rose 31 feet in 24 hours. Lake LBJ:

Lake LBJ above Lake Marble Falls and Lake Travis. Keep in mind this is a constant level lake.

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Collapsed the 2900 bridge in Kingsland.

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We may not get a lot of rain here in Texas but you should be here on the day that we do get it.
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It has just been a nasty, miserable hitch out here at the rig below Midland. Just misty, drizzly, rainy yuck for days on end. I bet it has been a while since this area has had weather like this. I've been working here for almost 3 years and haven't seen this much rain/drizzle/misty yuck until now.
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Not much better north. We had 4" of rain from last October until August 1st. Since then we've had close to 20", usually in 5" dumps. Hoping for some nice weather this weekend.
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That looks like one time things should not be bigger in Texas. Lots of water in that river.
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We have had so much rain in Bexar County that SAWs has removed all water restrictions, and we can now water our lawns whenever we want to. As if we need to water lawns.
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Yikes !! Have a niece in Austin. She has, fortunately, no high water near her
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My house in San Antonio has gotten 30" since Labor Day. That equals the average annual rainfall here.

My deer lease is on the Guadalupe River which flooded, but not as bad as the Llano. I was there Tuesday to move a deer feeder ahead of the flood and it rose 2 feet while I was watching.
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That's scary impressive.

But it reminds me of an old joke. A New Yorker has a visit from his distant cousin in Texas, and gets really tired of the Texan talking about how much bigger and better everything is back home.

So he takes the Texan to see Niagara Falls, and says, "Now, I'll bet you don't have anything like that where you live."

"Nope," says the Texan, "but we have a plumber who could fix it."

I hope all you folks stay dry.
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Almost exactly 20 years ago San Antonio had a record-breaking rainy period. The only thing that saved the downtown area from severe flooding was the completion about a year earlier of an underground storm water diversion tunnel. Fortunately, my San Antonio home is on high ground.
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We didn't catch it as bad as others, but we've been plenty wet here in The Big Country. All of my tanks are full for the 1st time in years. Now maybe I can teach my fish to swim.

All area lakes are over their spillways. So, creeks & rivers are still flowing & may cause more trouble for those downstream.

We've been on standby since Wednesday for call back should we get a hard rain. If a cow pissed on a flat rock right now half the town would flood. Luckily, we've been in a bit of a lull with no significant rain for the past couple days.
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Even Mother Nature doesn’t do small in Texas! My hunting lease is on top of the river bank but may not be able to get up the steep bluff as the rain makes major ruts in our road. May have to get a dozer when the rain stops.
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Almost exactly 20 years ago San Antonio had a record-breaking rainy period. The only thing that saved the downtown area from severe flooding was the completion about a year earlier of an underground storm water diversion tunnel. Fortunately, my San Antonio home is on high ground.
I remember that. That was when we had 40 days and nights of biblical proportion rain. It was awful. Fortunately our house was on high ground.
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