Floods in Texas

Sea Breeze

I am getting requests to confirm we are OK from several continents. We live about 5-10 minutes from the Guadalupe River in Texas. I didn’t realize this made global news.

I utilize a lot of weather subscription apps to help me in my business. I can set any number of parameters to send me alerts. The city I live in has an early warning system for the river. But the outlying counties along this river in Texas apparently do not.

With today’s technology it is just unconscionable that retreats and camps located on the rivers’ edge are not connected to some sort of early warning system.

More Than 100 dead, lots and lots of little kids.

resolute Bandicoot

This is all over the news in Australia. Very sad.

RB

Anony Mous

It is indeed a disaster.

Flood warnings were sent out throughout the night, but nobody expected the scope of the disaster to be this large.

By the time the emergency notice was sent, the levels were going up (vertical) by about 2 feet (~.6 meters) per minute (26 feet in 45 minutes), too fast for many in the middle of the night to make it to higher ground (people tend to camp/build on horizontal runs), meaning you have to potentially travel hundreds of feet in a matter of minutes just to not get enveloped (and water doesn't come from a nice singular direction as it does in the movies).

I do a lot of sporting in the water and camping, people just don't realize how fast the weather can change a nice trip into a potentially fatal survival event, even myself, pretty strong, nearly got caught in the middle of a lake by a depression above the lake turning a nice afternoon into a local storm, hours before the weather service predicted.

Floods in Texas

Sea Breeze

resolute Bandicoot

Anony Mous

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