Which one of you jerks is building an ark?

[Jamisjockey]

http://kxan.com/2015/05/25/bastrop-state-park-lake-dam-fails/

[MechAg94]

The news was talking of another dam near Midlothian that was in danger of failing. 

(I had to look it up.  It is South of Dallas and Fort Worth.

[KD5NRH]

http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/texas/2015/05/27/midlothian-dam-near-fort-worth-expected-to-break-at-any-moment/28001639/

That could be interesting given that there are also a couple of major HV lines running between the dam and the highway.  

Update this morning:

City engineers re-evaluated the dam in the daylight and determined it was more stable that it had been. The volume of water in the lake has decreased.

Decreased while it was pouring rain last night?  Might want to look into that a bit closer.

[cordex]

Just flew into DFW and am heading to Austin now. Pretty soggy down there.

[Jamisjockey]

Wimberly flooding pics







This has become kind of the iconic pic of flooding here in Houston.  Alot of these areas the water rises really quick.  One car stalls and everyone else gets stuck behind them

[Jamisjockey]

Lake Travis near Austin is up almost 24'.

Check this out

http://gfycat.com/MeatySkeletalGelada

[Jamisjockey]

https://sg.screen.yahoo.com/storyful-trending-videos/woman-dog-rescued-houston-flood-001620715.html

I just don't *expletive deleted*ing get people.  You can clearly see that it's deep water, look at the center divider.  Stupid bitch just drove right into it.
How do these people remember to breathe?

[makattak]

https://sg.screen.yahoo.com/storyful-trending-videos/woman-dog-rescued-houston-flood-001620715.html

I just don't *expletive deleted*ing get people.  You can clearly see that it's deep water, look at the center divider.  Stupid bitch just drove right into it.
How do these people remember to breathe?

Attributed to Einstein: “Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.”

[roo_ster]

1. As we drive around with the kids we have impressed upon them that water on the road is no joke.  And running water on the road is "Maybe I don't need to travel that bad today" no-shinola serious.  I think me pushing my pickup truck sideways with only my own strength across an icy parking lot this winter helped to impress upon them that if the tires break loose from the pavement, it doesn't take much to drag an auto downstream.

2. My mother who lives out of state and does not get touched in any way by this rain has called numerous times due to the lurid coverage on the cable teevee news coverage.  Not having teevee coming into the house, I miss a bunch of the whipped-up hysteria of all sorts.

[KD5NRH]

I just don't *expletive deleted*ing get people.  You can clearly see that it's deep water, look at the center divider.  Stupid bitch just drove right into it.

We get the opposite here; when you can see by the curb that the (standing, not flowing) water isn't more than a few inches deep, they panic, stop at the edge, don't have room to turn around, then expect the 4-5 cars that just managed to not rear end them to all back up so they can have room for a 27 point turnaround.

Often they're driving jacked up 4WD pickups, too.  Apparently worried about sloshing their latte onto their skinny jeans and ruining their silk panties.  The women are even worse.

[MechAg94]

If it is obviously just shallow water I can drive through, I will take my truck through it.  As long as it isn't up to the frame, trucks are generally heavy enough to wade through without a strong current.  If I was in a car, I would be very cautious myself.

[RoadKingLarry]

[Cliffh]

We hit "wetest May on record" over the weekend and we still have almost a week more of rain forecast.  I'm about to lose my garden to grass and weeds, just too wet to even walk in it.

I was planning to cut down the winter weeds and prep the garden for planting the weekend after all the rain started.  Still haven't done it, my boots stop just below the knees & I hate walking with water in my boots.

[Regolith]

https://sg.screen.yahoo.com/storyful-trending-videos/woman-dog-rescued-houston-flood-001620715.html

I just don't *expletive deleted*ing get people.  You can clearly see that it's deep water, look at the center divider.  Stupid bitch just drove right into it.
How do these people remember to breathe?

I'm not sure who's worse: the lady or the camera guy...

[LadySmith]

https://sg.screen.yahoo.com/storyful-trending-videos/woman-dog-rescued-houston-flood-001620715.html

I just don't *expletive deleted*ing get people.  You can clearly see that it's deep water, look at the center divider.  Stupid bitch just drove right into it.
How do these people remember to breathe?

I'm just glad the dog's OK.

[Jamisjockey]

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/l/USTX0617:1:US?animation=true&interactiveMapLayer=radar

More on it's way tonight/tomorrow.  And this weekend.  UNCLE. 

May....wettest month on record for Texas. Ever.  We got 20 inches in Houston over the month.

[Balog]

We got 20 inches in Houston over the month.

Yeah you did.

[roo_ster]

Between the thunder and torrential rains and the severe weather alert on our ohones i doubt we strung 30min of sleep together.

Luckily we are near the high spot between two creeks.  If we flood you will see downtown under water.

[MechAg94]

I heard the city of Wharton has issued an evacutation order as part of downtown will soon be part of the Colorado River.

http://abc13.com/news/wharton-residents-evacuate-as-colorado-river-flooding-looms/746525/

[RoadKingLarry]

The lake where my boat lives is now 17.5' above normal and rising. the local talking heads on the news are now to the point of talking about "what if such and such dam fails?".
Oh, and it's currently raining here.

[makattak]

Meanwhile, here on the east coast (or at least the mountains of Virginia), we've had a ~50% chance of rain forecast all week.

Outcome? Well, for the first time this spring, I won't have to mow my lawn this week since it's been completely dry. Looks like I got that solution to watering my fruit trees right in time.

[KD5NRH]

Sun's out.  Weather site says 59% humidity, but it feels like a frickin' jungle out there.

Maybe it'll firm up the front yard to where I can mow tomorrow.  Still standing water in the back yard this morning.

Or maybe not.  75% chance of storms before sunrise, dropping to 30% for part of the afternoon, then back to 75% in the evening.

[vaskidmark]

Dallas rush hour brought to a standstill by water.

Everybody and his brother repeating that the rain, if evenly spread over Texas, would be eight inches deep.  35+ trillion gallons.

Somebody needs to rent a few tanker ships, suck up all that water, and ship it to California.  You could probably get paid on both ends.

stay safe.

[Jamisjockey]

Dallas rush hour brought to a standstill by water.

Everybody and his brother repeating that the rain, if evenly spread over Texas, would be eight inches deep.  35+ trillion gallons.

Somebody needs to rent a few tanker ships, suck up all that water, and ship it to California.  You could probably get paid on both ends.

stay safe.

The problem is California would word the contract so that we must ship them that amount of water in perpetuity, regardless of rainfall.  Next drought, they still get it.

[Jamisjockey]

Okay last night brought a few inches (that's what she said).
1-4 inches depending with some localized flooding but nothing like what we got earlier in the week.

http://www.khou.com/videos/news/local/2015/05/30/cars-under-water-near-uh-downtown/28241741/



Looks like we get to dry out this week.