Insane Flooding in Kerrville, Texas – IOTW Report

Insane Flooding in Kerrville, Texas

Friday, 4 July 2025, 20:35 BFH Uncategorized 11

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  4. It’s ugly. Prayers needed. The Guadalupe went from 40 cfs to 40,000+ cfs in less than 20 minutes. I’m starting to hear than many of the Mystic camp girls have been found, I just don’t trust the reports in this chaos. We do have 13 confirmed fatalities.

    The only good news is many of the reservoirs down stream from this event are below 50% full. Unlike California, Texas will catch as much of this as it can.

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  5. “Unlike California, Texas will catch as much of this as it can.”

    Well any reservoir that’s half full will catch that water. Right? You need to seek help.

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  7. “You need to seek help.”

    Texas doesn’t toss it’s water in the ocean creating poverty trying to save an extinct smelt fish like Commifornia. We actually manage our water, but some things can’t be tamed. These rivers have a history of flash floods. It’s the boundary between dry west Texas, and the east Texas piney woods. There’s almost no top soil where these rains fell. It just hits the ground and runs away. The Canyon Lake reservoir was built to prevent an event like this from flowing 200+ miles to the ocean like it used to. Since watershed Geology is very specifically in my educational wheel house I tend to fixate on it. I’ll save the “Why did they put a girls summer camp there” discussion for another day.

    But yea I need help… I’ve had to check on a couple friends. The numbers this morning are worse, and moving the wrong direction. The TNG has deployed, and I’m checking ARES go bag, but we’ve been told to stay away. What I don’t need is condescension from a Commifornian machinist who has to look on a map to even find Kerrville.

    KR

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  9. @Walpurgis,

    Yep. Lago Vista and areas west of Round Rock got an additional 15 inches of rain overnight. Lago Vista is right on Lake Travis, so it mostly just drops into the lake, but they’re cut off via low water crossings. We have some additional flooding & evacuations along the San Gabriel river, mostly impacting homes built along dry creek beds. There’s now multiple water rescues underway in Burnet County.

    LCRA Hydromet is here:
    https://hydromet.lcra.org/floodstatus

    This covers the more northern area, not the Guadalupe. Inks lake is spilling over the spillway (no flood gates), and they’ve opened flood gates at Marble Falls and Lake LBJ to make room for the inflow from San Saba & Llano. Lake Buchanan and Lake Travis are expected to be able to hold what’s coming. A flash flood warning was just issued for the area east of I-35.

    For the Guadalupe, it’s managed by:
    https://www.gbra.org/news/flood-resources/

    They don’t seem to do updates in real time. I expect to see these pages get updated over the next few days. There’s 250,000 people counting on Canyon Lake holding.

    Numbers are starting to come in… Today is going to be a hard day.

    KR

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  10. ^^^
    I have a son living in Cedar Park and another who lives in Georgetown. A third son works over there and is there, now. I haven’t been able to contact any of them yet, but sons are that way. I expect they are all fine.

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  11. Prayers for everyone affected. I hope for the best for your sons, Dr. Hambone.

    Mrs. RMM received a message from a fiend in Canada asking if we were OK. We are about 300 miles away from the trouble. We have had some heavy rain, but nothing like that.

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