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17 minutes ago, Cajun said:

My son-in-law is a DPS detective and is there working recovery with the entire department from Victoria.  He just texted my daughter (former Mystic camper).  I'm not sure about posting specifics on numbers, but get ready to hear some rough news pretty soon on what they've found this morning.  

 

it was fourth of july weekend, all the rv parks and camp sites were at capacity and totally wiped out. those numbers can't be  known yet 

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Somebody on the other thread posted that they’re hearing they found the missing girls and counselor from the Bubble Inn cabin dead.

Just got a text from another source ‘confirming’ this news.
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4 minutes ago, C-Man said:


Somebody on the other thread posted that they’re hearing they found the missing girls and counselor from the Bubble Inn cabin dead.

There's more.

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2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

it was fourth of july weekend, all the rv parks and camp sites were at capacity and totally wiped out. those numbers can't be  known yet 

And they can’t know who all they are looking for, as rv campers and others won’t be accounted for on any way until they don’t come home. 

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6 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

it was fourth of july weekend, all the rv parks and camp sites were at capacity and totally wiped out. those numbers can't be  known yet 

He's not giving a number of all that are missing, just what they've found this morning.  He did specifically say that some were "not from the camp".

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Posted
2 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

for all the folks mentioning alerts at 1-3am.  How many of yall would have gotten that alert?   

but wondering how effective a cell phone alert in the middle of everyone sleeping would have worked 

 

edit. Just saw cell phone and iPads are banned at camp which is awesome for kids but surely adults had them. 
 

Just thoughts on my walk to church

As I posted earlier….. My niece, who is on staff at Camp Honey Creek, had to climb up a steep hill early Friday morning to get a weak cell phone signal so she could call out to report all their campers were safe in the main dining hall. 
Apparently the cell service down at camp level is non-existent, and their power was out.

Luckily the water volumes in Honey Creek were not as bad as the rising further downstream at La Junta and Mystic. So their cabins evidently were not affected by flooding. 
At least that’s what I am speculating.

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2 minutes ago, Homesickhorn said:

According to one of the guys I was with in Centerpoint this morning, they found two girls alive about 3/4 mile from where we were searching. That’s all I know and all I heard. I’m desperately trying to confirm.

Oh goodness. 🥺🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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4 minutes ago, Homesickhorn said:

According to one of the guys I was with in Centerpoint this morning, they found two girls alive about 3/4 mile from where we were searching. That’s all I know and all I heard. I’m desperately trying to confirm.

Did you hear these girls were from Mystic?  

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Just drove thru San Saba. Lots of out of town fire trucks in the area. The San Saba River is swollen big. Floods cut thru on east side of town. And it’s pouring rain a mile east of town. Fortunately it’s moving east. 

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Just crossed the Guadalupe on 281 in Spring Branch, the river is still raging. A lot of emergency vehicles. It’s terrifying and incredibly sad to think what is in the river today.

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20 minutes ago, Homesickhorn said:

According to one of the guys I was with in Centerpoint this morning, they found two girls alive about 3/4 mile from where we were searching. That’s all I know and all I heard. I’m desperately trying to confirm.

A miracle.

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2 minutes ago, SurlyGator said:

Maybe read his additional posts since that one almost an hour ago.

Where?  The only other post doesn't get into more information about the Bubble Inn girls.

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35 minutes ago, LebongJames said:

Just crossed the Guadalupe on 281 in Spring Branch, the river is still raging. A lot of emergency vehicles. It’s terrifying and incredibly sad to think what is in the river today.

The latest evidence of Nicole’s crimes, at the least. 

10 minutes ago, Texas Fight said:

Where?  The only other post doesn't get into more information about the Bubble Inn girls.

A lot of people are reading into things and expecting the worst. No one knows shit yet. I think everyone is just expecting the worst and mentally preparing for that outcome. 

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well damn ....

 

Michael Phillips, a fire chief in the Marble Falls area, went missing Saturday after being swept away by floodwaters while responding to a call in Cow Creek in Travis County, a Burnet County official said. 

Phillips was driving an emergency vehicle when he went missing Saturday morning, said Derek Marchio, coordinator for the Burnet County office of Emergency Management.

 

 

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Posted
1 minute ago, Jiggy-Z said:

That little bastard flare up in SW Travis county put out my burn pile.  Thanks a lot, god.

You better capitalize that G, otherwise He may throw in a strategically placed lightning strike as well!

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1 minute ago, SurlyGator said:

You better capitalize that G, otherwise He may throw in a strategically placed lightning strike as well!

I was trying to be inclusive.

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RiP forever together....
 
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These are the grandkids of the couple I mentioned yesterday. The grandparents were dental patients of my FIL. The father went to ESD with my wife.

Sounds like the parents were five houses down in the flooding and the father jumped in a kayak or some other small boat to try and get to his parents’ house but wasn’t able to fight the current.
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Update:
Interesting battle going on right now... some drier air is trying to work NW from our SE counties, and the disturbance is hanging out to our NW. The rain area is mostly north of Williamson into North Central Texas and trying hard to expand S and SE - where the dry air is at least for now dissipating much of it.

As this battle goes, so will go our flooding this afternoon... if the rains can come in from the N/NW then it's a concern. If the air over ATX can keep putting it out, drier with maybe scattered lighter showers.

RIght now it's a tossup but the defense is holding.

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1 minute ago, C-Man said:


These are the grandkids of the couple I mentioned yesterday. The grandparents were dental patients of my FIL. The father went to ESD with my wife.

Sounds like the parents were five houses down in the flooding and the father jumped in a kayak or some other small boat to try and get to his parents’ house but wasn’t able to fight the current.

 

i can share the full write up. 3:30 am, water rose about a foot a minute. it's a rough read  

 

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2 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

Update:
Interesting battle going on right now... some drier air is trying to work NW from our SE counties, and the disturbance is hanging out to our NW. The rain area is mostly north of Williamson into North Central Texas and trying hard to expand S and SE - where the dry air is at least for now dissipating much of it.

As this battle goes, so will go our flooding this afternoon... if the rains can come in from the N/NW then it's a concern. If the air over ATX can keep putting it out, drier with maybe scattered lighter showers.

RIght now it's a tossup but the defense is holding.

Probably one of the only times I am rooting for the forcefield dome. 

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Posted
5 hours ago, troph said:

My mom is house sitting for us and can’t take a pic for shit or I’d show venture point island disappearing still might later today. Terrible pics and such a great opportunity to time lapse.

Have her PM @Armybrat for some pointers

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Posted
2 hours ago, alexis texas said:

Here are a couple additional maps from the FEMA estBFE Viewer which show that this flood was likely closer to a 500 year flood event than a 100 year flood event. Most current building codes require the ground floor of buildings to be at least 1 to 2 feet higher than the 100 year BFE. 

i posted some content in the cr thread which supports the hypothesis that this type of event on the guadalupe south fork is far more frequent than every 500 years

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Posted
3 hours ago, G650 said:

What is your application? It depends on a few factors like ability to generate power, fixed or portable installation etc...

Other than just at the casa in Round Rock, probably just to take for piece of mind when driving the backcountry in Big Bend or the occasional weekend out on PINS.  Nothing too crazy. I imagine one like mentioned above would be fine.

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Geologist talking about the high potential for flash floods in certain areas like WV, eastern KY and the hill country. New video in response to what happened this weekend. He claims that these are some unique areas across the globe. (I can’t refute or confirm that statement.)

 

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15 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

Update:
Interesting battle going on right now... some drier air is trying to work NW from our SE counties, and the disturbance is hanging out to our NW. The rain area is mostly north of Williamson into North Central Texas and trying hard to expand S and SE - where the dry air is at least for now dissipating much of it.

As this battle goes, so will go our flooding this afternoon... if the rains can come in from the N/NW then it's a concern. If the air over ATX can keep putting it out, drier with maybe scattered lighter showers.

RIght now it's a tossup but the defense is holding.

 

11 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

Probably one of the only times I am rooting for the forcefield dome. 

 

7 minutes ago, Lhorn said:

C’mon dry air!!!! Happy Seann William Scott GIF

Word.  Except in the face of overwhelming catastrophic force like the past few days, my bet is always on the Austin FF.  It is a power unto itself.

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1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Geologist talking about the high potential for flash floods in certain areas like WV, eastern KY and the hill country. New video in response to what happened this weekend. He claims that these are some unique areas across the globe. (I can’t refute or confirm that statement.)

 

We have some of the highest fatalities from flash flooding in the country. It’s time we have a state funded warning system. 

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Posted
25 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

i posted some content in the cr thread which supports the hypothesis that this type of event on the guadalupe south fork is far more frequent than every 500 years

I have a deep dark feeling that they don't want to update the flood plain maps because they'd be admitting there's a problem with their current emergency plan. It would drive insurance out of the state, and destroy RE values if it turned out vast swaths of "500 year flood plains" are really more like "50 year flood plains"

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3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

I have a deep dark feeling that they don't want to update the flood plain maps because they'd be admitting there's a problem with their current emergency plan. It would drive insurance out of the state, and destroy RE values if it turned out vast swaths of "500 year flood plains" are really more like "50 year flood plains"

Politics and economics always come into play. Look at Florida and how they responded to that condo collapse. They passed laws in an attempt to prevent another tragedy, and now they’re quietly rolling them back. It always comes back to property values. “We need safety but not at the expense of my net worth.”

separate issue but my old Houston neighborhood voted down sidewalks when the city was offering to cover the build costs. Residents didn’t want to lose a few square feet of their front lawn. I shake my head every time I see parents pushing strollers while sharing the road with commuters and delivery trucks.

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Per LCRA representative at news conference, both Wirtz & Starcke Dams currently have closed all gates...  so flows into Lake Travis will soon begin diminishing...

 

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Just now, BlackCat said:

Yall wouldn’t believe how heartbreaking some of this is. Families are getting calls saying we have your daughter and demanding a ransom. 

Jesus fucking Christ what?   I hope these people are found and literally shot in the fucking head on site and buried.  

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1 minute ago, BlackCat said:

Yall wouldn’t believe how heartbreaking some of this is. Families are getting calls saying we have your daughter and demanding a ransom. 

Fuck.  The death penalty isn't enough for some of these ghouls.

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Just now, BlackCat said:

Yall wouldn’t believe how heartbreaking some of this is. Families are getting calls saying we have your daughter and demanding a ransom. 

I had a bad feeling that was going to happen once families went public with names & pics of their kids and phone numbers.  Scammers deserve to rot in hell.

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Just now, Sgt Hulk said:

Jesus fucking Christ what?   I hope these people are found and literally shot in the fucking head on site and buried.  

Don’t pass on the hanging, beheading, disemboweling, and tar and feathering, after the shooting, but before the burial.

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