That is some serious flooding in Texas

[malaise]

Damn - stay safe DUers

[Duckhunter935]

1. Oklahoma also

Lost a soldier last week trying to cross at a flooded low water crossing, Very sad.

[malaise]

3. Just head that a fireman died on Oklahoma yesterday

while trying to rescue someone

[Duckhunter935]

5. Listened to the radio last night

Lots of water rescues from flooded houses and streets. Said people were ignoring the fire department and driving around the barricades.

[kentuck]

2. Reminds me of SRV..

[malaise]

4. They showed a collapsed apartment complex in

freaking Austin. Even Houston is under water!
Time to contact my niece and nephew.

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. An apartment complex collapsed here in Houston

Tornado.

http://abc13.com/news/tornado-partially-collapses-apartment-building-in-sw-houston/739040/

[Gothmog]

47. I saw this on the local news

[Bonobo]

29. Beat me to it. nt

[LuvNewcastle]

43. I heard that song in my head

as soon as I read the title of the thread. Love me some Stevie Ray.

[Duckhunter935]

6. we did go from within a week of stage 4

due to the low level of the lakes to no restrictions this week and opening of the lake flood gates. We have had a lot of rain and more expected today.

[malaise]

7. Unbelievable

Stay safe

Saw this official on TV in Texas saying they're still rescuing people from rooftops.

[Duckhunter935]

9. Look at that rise!

[seabeyond]

8. i have never seen this amount of water, this amount of times, and more is coming. it has been

a very interesting spring. end of May, and today made it up to 80. first time i have taken off jacket in a while

[malaise]

10. Stay safe

Damn I just saw a bridge destroyed and the reporter said the water rose three stories high in no time.
Stay safe

[randome]

11. Open carry will solve all this climate change nonsense.

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[Duckhunter935]

12. what a stupid comment

as people are losing loved ones and you have to joke about it, shame on you.


Capt. Jason Farley, Claremore Fire Department dies during Oklahoma water rescue

http://www.statter911.com/2015/05/24/capt-jason-farley-claremore-fire-department-dies-during-oklahoma-water-rescue/

[CBGLuthier]

30. Disasters in red states always bring out the worst in some people.

I have seen it a lot over the last 14 years here. Some people just can not resist the urge to be shitty.

[randome]

48. There was no mention in the OP about lives lost so how would I have known that?

My point is that the GOP in Texas has all the enthusiasm in the world for passing laws about guns but is curiously absent on the very real effects of climate change.
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[Duckhunter935]

49. Ok, but it's been in the news

Guns were not mentioned in the OP either. But you had to bring them in. Wonder why, mmmmm?

Maybe edit you post?

[Paladin]

50. Your comment was as stupid as it was predictable.

And for the benefit of you and your fellow Texas haters: Wimberley, which received most of the property damage and loss of life, is a boutique community just a short distance from Austin. And Austin, as DU Texas haters never tire of reminding us, is the Only Cool Place In Texas. So how about backing off the shitty remarks a little? Something awful is bound to happen in Dallas or Houston before long, then you'll be back in business.

[herding cats]

39. Three children were swept away in the flood waters last night.

They're still missing, along with 5 other family members. Maybe consider a delete here in light of the missing children? It seems a bit heartless to poke at potentially dead children to make a political point when they weren't even of an age to vote. Not that we know the political leanings of any of the other missing or dead, or that it should matter. It was a tragedy. People died and 100's more lost everything to the floods. My heart breaks for their loss, even if I disagree with some of those effected politically. I don't ever want to imagine what it would be like to lose my children, grandchildren, mother, father, sister, brother, etc. like this. Which is the reality these families are facing today.

[maryellen99]

13. And the weather channel isn't covering it :(

Historic flooding and a tornado in Irving and they are showing some stupid reality shit called Fat Guy in the Woods.

[malaise]

14. Media elites don't work on holiday weekends

Get real

[TexasTowelie]

27. I used to live about a half-mile to the south of that building that got hit by the tornado.

I recognized the building from the pictures that I saw today.

[catrose]

16. Sure enough is.

And 20-something days of rain has brought the state from the red-level drought (extreme?) to the orange level (really bad?). Also it washed away my driveway, but when you're in extreme drought you don't complain about rain.

[malaise]

17. I'd give up the driveway and keep the house

but I can imagine the mess.

Amazing that you still haven't had enough water. Hopefully the drought ends slowly.

[davidpdx]

18. Things are crazy

Flooding in the south and droughts in the west. I'd ask how much worse it could get, but I think we already know the answer.

[Solly Mack]

19. rdking647 posted some photos of the flood in the photo group (link)

Flooding

[malaise]

20. Thanks

[Solly Mack]

21. Horrible scenes.

You're welcome.

[malaise]

22. I can't contemplate my home washing away

Too hard to process

[Solly Mack]

24. It is!

I'm often too stunned by the devastation from floods and such to process what I am seeing.

[malaise]

26. I remember Hurricane Gilbert in 1988

Nothing since has come close - thousands of homes were destroyed- every tree in sight was gone. An old man told me the trees would be back in all their majesty within seven years - he was right.

[okaawhatever]

41. I lived through the Nashville Flood and one of the strangest events during that time was

a house floating down the interstate passing cars. Here is a one minute video of it. The Nashville flood didn't make the news because it happened just as the oil spill in the Gulf happened. It really didn't get much coverage overall, but it did pick up when Andersen Cooper flew in and called out the other media for ignoring it. It was a 1,000 year flood with 15-20" of rain falling in just over 24 hours. My neighborhood had about 400 homes and over 200 of them were ruined.

[malaise]

52. Freaking wow

Imagine being the owner watching that

[herding cats]

36. Wimberley, I think that's where the two families are missing in the flood.

8 people in total, three under 10 years of age with one being only 4 years old. I read something about it earlier. Their home was washed away, like those homes depicted in the photos. Simply heartbreaking to read about it, but it's brought home to me what they endured seeing those photos.

Thank you for sharing the link.

I wish the best for everyone involved in these floods.

[Solly Mack]

37. Oman! Thank you for giving us more of the story.

[herding cats]

38. I found a link to the story for you.

It's not the one I read earlier, but I can't find that one now. It was in Wimberley, TX where they were washed away in the flooding. It appears to have been horrifically bad there. It broke records it was so bad. Hundreds of people lost everything from what I was reading earlier.

http://kxan.com/2015/05/24/family-of-former-nueces-county-commisioner-missing-following-flood/

[Solly Mack]

40. :(

Thanks.

[malaise]

53. I'd give up the home for precious young ones

Too sad

[Gothmog]

23. I was in a tornado alert this morning

The flooding risk will be around for a couple of days

[malaise]

25. I'll take the hurricanes over tornadoes every day of the week

At least we get notice in advance - stay safe

[Gothmog]

31. I have been in a couple of hurricanes and I do not want a tornado

There was an apartment complex destroyed today due to a tornado but it was not near me

[TexasTowelie]

28. The rain chances for Houston are 70% tomorrow, 50% on Tuesday and Wednesday, 30% on

Thursday and Friday and back to 50% next weekend.

The storm rolled through here about 5 a.m. yesterday, but where I'm at (Wharton) only got the edge of it. I imagine that some friends of mine in San Marcos were evacuated since the trailer park where they live floods almost all of the time.

[tammywammy]

32. It's been off and on flash floods for a couple of weeks.

More rain tomorrow, but hopefully it lets up after that.

[aikoaiko]

33. Hence all those blues songs out of Texas about flooding.

[madfloridian]

34. My daughter says their yard is standing water. And more rain to come.

It's been weeks.

[littlebit]

35. My back yard looks like a lake right now

I just moved back to Amarillo after being gone for 20 years. I don't ever remember it raining this much when I was a kid.

[Aerows]

42. I'm east (quite a bit) from there

but on the Coast and it is coming down cats and dogs. We didn't need anymore, but ...Oh wait, I think we are getting giraffes and a few rhinoceroses, too

[LuvNewcastle]

44. Yeah, we can usually count on getting

Houston's weather within another day or two. We don't need it now, but if this year is like last year, we'll be dry for the second half of the year. Extremes are the rule these days.

[Aerows]

45. Are you floating

too? We were so dry last year, even at this time.

I'm not saying it's bad, but when I went down the street, I saw a man building a boat and some animals lined up two by two ...

[LuvNewcastle]

46. lol!

It's been pretty wet. I live in a low area in Biloxi, and it doesn't take that much to flood the streets around here. I'm just glad I live upstairs.

[Aerows]

56. My poor cat came in at around 5pm

and she looked like she had been swimming. I have never seen a more miserable looking feline. Her fur was sticking up all over the place, and she was just drenched. I had to scoop her up in a towel.

[tanyev]

51. I bet my governor will soon ask for assistance from the guy he suspects is going to invade us.

[malaise]

54. I was wondering if his own national guard has been removed from watching

the Feds to help his own people

[tanyev]

55. Ah, but the group supposed to keep an eye on the military is not even the Texas National Guard.

Juanita Jean explains it in her own inimitable style:

Do you know what the Texas Guard is? It’s not the Texas National Guard. It’s just the Texas Guard. It’s like the Boy Scouts except with no adult supervision.

Remember the old sheriff we had here who often tied his shoelaces together? He was the head of the Texas Guard here and his mistress was the Lt. Col. I am not making that up. Just ask anybody.

The Texas Guard is for people too old or too chicken to join the real military. They are for civil help only, like cleaning up after a hurricane. Here’s what they get paid. They do not get to carry guns, even if they have one.

http://juanitajean.com/ding-ding-ding-we-have-a-winner/