July 11, 2002
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Maybe you’ve heard about the flooding in Texas. A big ol’ storm system decided to sit over central Texas, north of San Antonio. As a result, a huge flood of water is coursing its way down the watershed toward the gulf of Mexico, taking out a couple dozen or so small towns along the way.
Interestingly enough, my parents own a house on the Guadalupe river, just north of New Braunfels, the flooded town you’ve probably seen on the weather channel if you pay attention to such things.
The house has been under water for a few days. Really big water, too. The kind of water that filled man-made Canyon Lake upstream, and then started spilling over the dam’s spillway at 3000 cubic feet per second. There’s never been a flood this bad in the region, though there have been bad ones.
The house is their vacation home, so it’s not as huge a tragedy as if it were their place of residence, but it’s still tragic. Mostly because the house is built above the 100-year flood plain, and this is the second major flood in, I think, 5 years. The last flood all but destroyed the house, and they had just put the finishing touches on the repairs a few months ago. Now they start over on it.
I’m sitting here in Austin waiting for the call. My parents are going to let me know when they get to the flood area, and then I can go join them in shoveling mud while trying not to be overwhelmed.
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Ouch. crossing finger and toes.
Yeah. We’re still trying to wring out our clothes and shake water from our gills.
The dutch now a lot about flooding…. ther was the big flood in 1953 when. The North Sea surged over the Netherland’s dike system, drowning 1,800 people and flooding 625 square miles.Nowadays in the south one of the rivers (the Maas) forms a flooding hazard almost every year in spring (when the ice and snow in a.o. Switserland is melting). I think it is horrible to see the water take away /destroy you things and then the mud…. Good luck with it…. hoping it’s not too bad
Even worse being such ,,,
Well, shit, I come in two days late..how goes the shovelling? Lord, so sorry for your Mom and Dad…and you. Take care, don’t float away.
Fear not, my tree-sitting friend. For it is I, The XangAvenger!!!! *cough* (sorry I choked on my spit). I’m here to help and I’ve got a Gary Coleman-sized boner for Justice!!! If you need me, you know where I’ll be! For I am, The XangAvenger!!!! *cough*
Whoa. Hey, Homer, my sympathies for your family’s current plight. And to think… they coulda bought some land in Marfa! Please take care, and watch out for water mocassins.
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