(Update) Texas floods deliver snakes, ants, debris to neighborhoods

[nitpicker]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2016/05/31/deadly-texas-flooding-continues/85184320/

Texas floods deliver snakes, ants, debris to neighborhoods
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY 7:26 p.m. EDT May 31, 2016

With heavy rain continuing and one river forecast to crest at a record high level, Texas will expect little relief on Wednesday from flooding that claimed seven lives over the holiday weekend. Rounds of heavy thunderstorms will raise the risk of flooding across the south-central U.S. into Friday, AccuWeather said.

The heaviest storms are expected to impact Oklahoma and central and western Texas through Wednesday night, before shifting into eastern Texas, including Houston, by Thursday. Widespread rainfall totals are expected to reach 3 to 6 inches with some locations potentially seeing 7 to 9 inches, according to KENS5 in San Antonio.

The National Weather Service has placed much of Texas under a flash flood watch. This includes the metro areas of Dallas-Ft. Worth, Austin and San Antonio.
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The Brazos River, which runs from New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico, was forecast to crest at 53.8 feet late Tuesday in Richmond, Texas, the National Weather Service said. That's three feet higher than the previous record, set during flooding in 1994.

Authorities in Richmond's Fort Bend County, southwest of Houston, rescued at least 40 people over the weekend from floodwaters there.
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[TexasTowelie]

1. I live 30 miles away from Richmond.

There are mandatory evacuations in Wharton which is on the Colorado River. We had mandatory evacuations a few weeks ago so it is becoming routine. I'm on fairly high ground so I haven't had to leave, but there are some evacuation shelters open in town.

[safeinOhio]

2. 500 year floods

every other week. Will Pat Robertson say it is Gods wrath for Baptist being idiots?

[Scientific]

4. The Republicans will say again that climate change is a liberal hoax

...and that everything will be hunky dory if we just cut taxes for the rich again,
and get busy tossing more people off of food stamps.

[Javaman]

3. more rain this afternoon in Austin.

torrential downpours yesterday afternoon.

I've come to expect the yearly 500 year flood every Memorial Day weekend now.

[LisaL]

5. Well, Rick Perry did ask Texans to pray for rain.

But has he asked them to stop praying?