Post #779321 by Prikli Pear on Tue, Aug 29, 2017 9:25 AM

We've been very fortunate here. We received at least 15" of rain Saturday-Sunday, but it was evenly spread out. It was mid-afternoon Saturday before we even began to see any runoff. The ground was so dry it soaked it up. The ditches and drainages started to fill after that, and we were worried how that would turn out. The heavy runoff subsided by mid-Sunday, so no flooded garage this time around. The wind was pretty rough, but I don't believe it ever got as high as forecast. We had 30 mph pretty steadily through Saturday night, but I'd say it only reached the predicted 40-plus during occasional gusts. A neighbor's cedar elm lost some big limbs. There were downed oak branches all around. Smaller trees, like crape myrtles and mountain laurels, were flattened here and there. Our big gate to the back yard essentially ripped off its hinges, and I had to cobble together a fix yesterday. But there's no doubt that we were extremely lucky.

Along the Colorado River (not the Grand Canyon one) there's major evacuations. My hometown of Columbus is almost completely evacuated. A flood of this magnitude hasn't hit since at least the 1920s, before the flood control dams in the Hill Country above Austin were constructed. And Houston is completely underwater. The amount of rain dumped on that area this week is simply incomprehensible. It's insane.