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Yes.  The trees on the right side of the road are no more.

Jesus. I’ve driven over that crossing a zillion times, although it’s been a few years. I’m sure whenever I pass that way again, it’ll be overwhelming. And I’m just a person who spends time there. The trauma so many folks must feel. It breaks my damn heart.
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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:


Jesus. I’ve driven over that crossing a zillion times, although it’s been a few years. I’m sure whenever I pass that way again, it’ll be overwhelming. And I’m just a person who spends time there. The trauma so many folks must feel. It breaks my damn heart.

Yes sir.  My family and I tear up every time we drive to Kerrville from Ingram, which is every day. From the Ingram dam to past Hunt looks like a war zone.

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I agree flood alarms along the river probably would have helped people downstream from Hunt/Ingram evacuate.  The Camp Mystic kids, I am not so sure.  If you look at the cabins map at Camp Mystic, the cabins are between the Guadalupe River and Cypress Creek, essentially on an island.  IMO, those kids/counselors were doomed when they went to bed that night.

This is a report from Charlie Hastings, who is the Kerr County engineer:

 

Flood Timeline at the river gauge, which is 10 miles down stream from the south fork of the Guadalupe River:

July 4th Midnight - 53 gallons/second

Rained 3 hours straight

3 am - 264 gal/sec

3:30 am - 125,000 gal/sec

4 am - 950,000 gal/sec

In comparison, Niagara Falls flows 75,750 gal/sec.

The river rose as high as 55' in places.  

For those familiar with the headwaters of the two forks of the Guadalupe, the south fork is solid rock, basically concrete.  That is where 90% of the rain fell.  It was a tsunami flowing on a non-porous substrate.  A ton of water in a short amount of time.

A good friend of mine works as security for the Bass family ranch in the Hunt area.  At midnight, he was parked under the Hunt Store canopy watching the river and decide to drive home, which is behind the Hunt Store.  He said that he didn't observe anything out of the ordinary.  He said at 3:30, he and his wife woke up to water in their home.  No one was expecting this around here.

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2 hours ago, BearSchlong said:

950k?

That's about a quarter of the Mississippi river’s average flow at Baton Rouge.

On the Guad. Hard to wrap my head around that.

I am absolutely dreading a visitation/funeral tomorrow.

I always find cross references to be helpful for understanding massive numbers like 950k gallons per second.

Here is a 400,000 gallon water tank

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950,000 gallons is close to 4000 tons. Here is crane that can lift 4000 tons

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Here is Para' Falls in Venezuela. The largest waterfall in South America which flows right at 950,000 gallons per second.

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11 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

Man, mother nature is some bullshit sometimes.

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1 minute ago, wildcat09 said:

Man, mother nature is some bullshit sometimes.

And the amount of fucks she gives is perpetually pegged at "zero."  She doesn't give a shit about you.  She's coming, and ain't nothin' gonna stop her.

That's why you should prep and plan for when she will show up to give you the bidness, because she IS gonna show up.  It's just a matter of when.

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I didn't ask for the details, but Ella’s casket was hand-painted with a yellow rose motif, and someone said that Texas artist adorned similar coffins for many of the victims. Danged it was gorgeous, but I was not about to take a photo.

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