Flooding

[Mike_Kanzer]

Have any TBN members from Texas or oklahoma been having problems with the flooding? I have seen the videos on the news and it really does look like flooding of "biblical proportions". Hope everyone is safe and not having serios problems. Mike

 

[2LaneCruzer]

We're located between Guthrie and Oklahoma City, on high ground with a huge, big deep creek behind us. It was roaring like crazy for a couple of days, but we're OK. A bit soggy, and the gopher holes have channeled some of my yard down to the creek, but no real threat here. I haven't had to water my tomatoes since I put them in, in mid April.

 

[RDrancher]

Some of those videos (including a couple helicopter rescues) have been within a few miles of our place. The ground is so saturated that there's nowhere for the water to go, so it's all surface runoff now. Our pastures are a mess and the pond overflow has been getting a workout! Our house is on a bit of higher ground, but I've still had to pump out under the house twice and I'm heading to the rental yard this morning to get a trash pump again.

 

[dave1949]

Some of those videos (including a couple helicopter rescues) have been within a few miles of our place. The ground is so saturated that there's nowhere for the water to go, so it's all surface runoff now. Our pastures are a mess and the pond overflow has been getting a workout! Our house is on a bit of higher ground, but I've still had to pump out under the house twice and I'm heading to the rental yard this morning to get a trash pump again.

Sorry to hear that John. I thought you were kidding the other day when you said water was running through your shop. Hopefully this system is moving away from you'all very soon.

 

[EddieWalker]

We had 2 inches fall last night from the storm, but no flooding in our area. My step son lives in Henderson and it looks like the town was hit by a tornado. He said it was so loud that his ears where ringing after it passed when we talked to him on the phone. Trees and branches have taken out power lines all over the town. It will be a few days until they can say if it was a tornado or not for sure. The one that hit van a couple weeks ago was an F3 which is about 15 miles from our place. The damage is just amazing to see. Trees just snapped in half for as far back into the forest as you can see. Entire houses are just gone. It's not the flooding that has us scared, it's all the tornadoes. Roughly guessing, I think there where five last night in a 50 mile radius of us.

Eddie

 

[RDrancher]

Sorry to hear that John. I thought you were kidding the other day when you said water was running through your shop. Hopefully this system is moving away from you'all very soon.

Thank Dave. My wife would be happy to monitor the pump if she could get me out of the house and back to work! :laughing:

 

[mikim]

We had 4" yesterday and the creek came up higher than I've ever seen it. Couldn't get near the bridge - my back fence this a.m. had debris 4 and 5 feet high where the water was rushing over it. We were flooded in - roads going in both directions out of here were impassable. No big deal - we had no place to go. Should be OK this a.m. - I'll find out in a couple hours when I try to go to town. They closed school for today and the wife is home from work -- time for me to leave.
Daughter called from Houston - guess it was a real nightmare on those freeways -- crowded with idiots.

 

[txdon]

All the county roads (gravel) need some work if UPS is going to pass through. I can make it to town if I take the back roads and go slow through the wash outs. The farm to market roads in the area are closed at the creeks with water high over the roads. The state highways are open. No reported emergencies to our VFD last night - good thing I could not have made it to the station, so I was protecting this side with ???? - a bucket.

Heading out with the box blade

just got paged - water rescue bye

 

[Xfaxman]

We're located east of Guthrie, buildings are on high ground, pond is usually empty.

This has been the most rain in the month of May, 18.9", since they started keeping track in 1890.

Our pond on April 12th.

On May 24th.

 

[gsganzer]

I was in the TX hill country over the weekend, in Mason they had 3.5" on Saturday night and the dry creeks were flowing Sunday morning. The Llano river had a 6-8 foot surge earlier in the week, but it was only 1' over the low water crossing in Castell, when we checked it on Sunday. On our drive back yesterday, we had downpours from Hwy 16 in De Leon all the way home, made for 3 hours of miserable driving.

Our place in North TX, Denton, is waterlogged. We've had a permanent river between our tank and our neighbors tank up stream from us. usually only an issue for part of a day after a good rain, seems like there's enough run-off that it just keeps flowing now. It makes for great adventures for our girls, they've been catching fish, pollywogs and crawdads as they get swept from the upper tank.

On my drive to work this morning, Lake Lewisville is only about 2 feet from hitting the bottom of the I-35 bridge and the new walking trail they built on the east side of the highway was completely under water.

The ground is so saturated I can't play with the new tractor much. I'd just be leaving ruts and making a mess if I drove off an improved surface.

 

[HEC]

We had 2 inches fall last night from the storm, but no flooding in our area. My step son lives in Henderson and it looks like the town was hit by a tornado. He said it was so loud that his ears where ringing after it passed when we talked to him on the phone. Trees and branches have taken out power lines all over the town. It will be a few days until they can say if it was a tornado or not for sure. The one that hit van a couple weeks ago was an F3 which is about 15 miles from our place. The damage is just amazing to see. Trees just snapped in half for as far back into the forest as you can see. Entire houses are just gone. It's not the flooding that has us scared, it's all the tornadoes. Roughly guessing, I think there where five last night in a 50 mile radius of us.

Sure hope you stay safe Eddie , I just can't imagine being hit with a tornado , losing my home in a tornado or a flood . We get hit with some cold weather and snow storms but nothing to take away our homes . I guess it is all a trade off , as for me I guess I will stay north as we have given a lot of thought of moving south . My friend moved to Fl. a couple months ago and they seem to like it so far, even with the hot temps., which will only get worse in the coming months .

Herb

 

[txdon]

Back from the call. Our VFD is located in-between two of the creeks that flooded so myself and one other volunteer were on our own.

The water rescue was on our side of the creek and was a success. A little old lady unfamiliar with the creeks did not see any signs so she drove through the rushing water and got swept off the road into the deeper water filled ditch. The water was about 6-8" deep on the road where she got washed off but closer to the creek it was deeper and the water swifter.

Only the front of her car was submerged in the ditch - We could drive to her and stand in the water but she was too frail to walk in the current. We set her in the fire truck and took her to higher ground.

I finished smoothing out the washouts on my county road with the box blade, now I need to work on my driveway, fix the erosion in the spillway (after it dries) and repair a few washed fences.

 

[MacLawn]

Wow, Xfax, that's some rain! I've been keeping up a bit with the TEXAS and Oklahoma weather, y'all boys stay safe! So sorry to hear of the ones who lost their lives in these storms. My prayers for all...

 

[johnrex62]

I was in Taylor on Monday when the rains started up again and the truck dealership had water running over their retaining wall and into the showroom after about 30 minutes. The hwy had several places with deep water flowing over it (no low water crossings close by) and the smaller farm to market roads were all closed between me and my house due to flooding. I eventually found a route that got me home only adding 70 miles to the trip. The creek behind my property was over the bank about 500 feet and within 10 feet of my back door.

No water inside any of my buildings, but the pasture will take a while to dry out.

 

[jerrybob]

Wow.......some scary events......hope all you folks are OK.......please be safe!!!:thumbsup:

 

[weldingisfun]

Just got back to our place last night. We spent the week in CO helping a grandson graduate high school. As soon as I finish my coffee it is out to assess the damages. We already know we have at least 20 feet of fence down. Hope it ends with that. Fingers crossed.

 

[sseelhoff]

More rain in Houston today. Flooding was not over from yesterday and this one looks like another heavy water event. Crazy, crazy, crazy. Hope all our TBN'ers keep their heads down and stay safe. Prayers for all those affected by the storms.

 

[meos1]

Im out here in Dallas this week. The news is reporting that a dam in Midlothian is near failing. There were seven big industrial pumps in the video they showed that they were using to try and pull the watter down, but the **** was getting run over by about two inches of water. I suspect that they could loose that one.

 

[bindian]

I have lost count how many inches. Somewhere around 12 inches in the last 2-3 weeks. I'm an hour north of Houston. The Lewis Creek Reservoir Dam (cooling lake for the Entergy powerplant) is about 4 miles from me. I used to live in Conroe Bay (on Lake Conroe) about a mile from the dam. Conroe Bay was one of the many subdivisions that were forced to evacuate, as the dam was threatening to burst.
Here are a few photos of my place, which has a gully running through it. I think I need a third pond! Water was ripping about a foot deep over my island/duck pond's overflow spillway this morning

hugs, Brandi

 

[forgeblast]

Stay safe everyone, the weather report said more rain was coming...