lake travis making a comeback!!!

[Baron Von Crowder]

The Padera lake dam is about to give out. You Midlothian folks be careful.

heard that this morning. The water doesnt have far to go before getting to Joe Pool, though.

[mstng86]

Well, the engineers are saying it won't break.

So..

[Labora]

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/2015/05/27/midlothian-dam-expected-to-break-at-any-moment/28000473/

They are reporting it will hold now.

[GhostTX]

Only 25 homes (which they already evacuated), 287 and pasture land would be affected. As breaks go, it'd be "minor".

[Baron Von Crowder]

Well, the engineers are saying it won't break.

So..

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local...ment/28000473/

They are reporting it will hold now.

perhaps ol Harry had a chat with it?

[mstng86]

Man, 29, drowns after dam waters overtake kayak on Trinity River

The body of a man who disappeared Saturday after water released from the Eagle Mountain Dam overtook his kayak was found Sunday afternoon in a discharge pool of the Trinity River, officials said.

Joshua Reed, 29, of Fort Worth, and five others had apparently entered a restricted area to kayak in the Trinity River channel, downstream of Eagle Mountain's main dam, around 7 p.m., according to Chad Lorance, a spokesman with the Tarrant Regional Water District.

The kayakers told authorities that they had paddled up to the dam's discharge apron when water released through the dam from Eagle Mountain Lake overtook their kayaks. Lorance said the water had been released because the lake was full.

Alerted to the incident at about 10 p.m., TRWD police, game wardens, Eagle Mountain and Fort Worth fire departments, and a Fort Worth police helicopter searched by ground and air for the kayakers, which included a 6-year-old girl.

Don't mess around with water people. It's more dangerous than you can ever understand.

[GhostTX]

Don't mess around with water people. It's more dangerous than you can ever understand.

Ya...I read that and first thought through my head was "dumbass". Sad he had to learn of his folly with his life.

[Big A]

With a 6 year-old in tow no less... Sucks that he died, but c'mon now, really?!

[GhostTX]

With a 6 year-old in tow no less... Sucks that he died, but c'mon now, really?!

Missed the part about the kid. Ugh!

[GeorgeG.]

This. I was trying to imagine being in that father/husbands place, waking up today and knowing that my wife and two kids were swept down river in a house, and can't be found now.

Probably too late to analyze it now but why did he not abandon ship(house) long before the water got that high? Pretty sad ordeal

[95DRGT]

Probably too late to analyze it now but why did he not abandon ship(house) long before the water got that high? Pretty sad ordeal

According to reports Blanco rose 26' in one hour in the middle of the night.
The previous day you are overlooking a serene gentle flowing river so it would be difficult to imagine how high it would come up.

We stayed in Wimberley last summer for a week in a house on the river. There was just a trickle of water running down the Blanco. Its very hard for me to imagine how high and how fast a river can rise.

I think 13' is considered flood stage and it crested at 43'. Previous high was 33' in 1939.

[turboford]

Spillway over flow at Texoma.

[Baron Von Crowder]

My cohort in New Braunfels told me that some idiots hopped in tubes and were floating the flood waters, had to be rescued, and are now getting fined.

[BP]

Spillway over flow at Texoma.

You should edit in a couple of sharks next to the chopped kayakers.

[YALE]

My cohort in New Braunfels told me that some idiots hopped in tubes and were floating the flood waters, had to be rescued, and are now getting fined.

They did that shit in the city park here in Stephenville. Same result.