We've been getting a lot of rain around here lately! Some have had it much, much worse... I shot a little clip of the spillway in the park about a mile from our house here in Plano. This usually has a foot to two feet of water in it past the spillway. The spillway is in the shot at the beginning of the clip... the creek that looks like rapids usually looks like a small drainage ditch with hardly a current on normal days. The "lake" on the far side of the spillway is normally around 6-8 feet lower than this video shows... it rose about 2 feet in the 20 minutes we were there... That bridge you see at the beginning is normally about 5 feet over the water's surface... the ends on either shore are submerged in this view... <object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ytHPlWgy3l8"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ytHPlWgy3l8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object>
This is nuts.... last year we had a drought where everybody thought their foundations were going to blow. This year the rain won't stop (but of course we're still under water restrictions in some parts...lol). Ah well, I'd rather have long periods of rain than long periods without it.
Wfaa just emailed me back.. they may run this on the news at 10... We'll see. I sent them the un-youtubed raw footage...
IROC it, I just moved to Plano (from Houston) this past week. You're right about the rain, it's crazy. Glad to see another poster up here.
I had to look up where "Haltom City" was. People dying up there near FW? Sad, man. <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8kqk65eS9IY"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8kqk65eS9IY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
They said on the weather tonight that there may be colliding fronts that could cause up to 10" of rain to fall through central Texas.
They didn't show it... but who knows, maybe tomorrow... Anyway... we saw idiot parents with their kids down by that creek/whitewater river earlier... Then the very area they had been standing in was flooded within moments. The park trash can (55 gallon drum) was swept down stream like a Styrofoam cup. Just be careful near any ditches, streams, creeks, rivers etc... Be safe.
wow...i haven't even checked the news lately. that could be some bad stuff. reminds me of this show I saw on PBS discussing flash flooding in the central texas region. they showed footage from the 1930's of congress bridge in austin being flooded over. they also documented how massive flash flooding used to be semi-regular. if I remember correctly it is the geography of the central texas region that just funnels all the water down to the austin area and surrounding areas which makes central texas one of the worst flash flood places in north america.
Unbelievable -- since I posted last night 16" of rain has fallen in the Marble Falls area and Lake Travis is rising a foot an hour.
"Catastrophic flooding event occurring in Burnett County right now" The weather guy in Austin just said this -- 10" + per hour falling right now.
Still falling like crazy up here. Luckily for me Lewisville hasn't been hit as hard as some spots, and it's times like this that I'm glad the wife and I are still in a (third floor) apartment and not in a house yet. Lots of video last night of folks trying to keep the water out of their homes...
It has been raining like crazy up here, finally have a bit of a break in Lewisville but still very overcast
Oh man I feel for the residents up there.. hope they've moved to safer grounds. I saw the weather forecast and stuff on CNN the other day on North Texas.. the skies up there looks mad crazy. I hope there is no chance for the storm to move down to Houston.
