I mean… how does this happen…? How fast does the water level rise…? Coukdn’t you climb a tree or latch on to something that floats? Here in Alberta we sometimes see rivers overflow their banks… and people might get killed if they fall into a torrent… but people getting carried off…? It’s hard for a stubble jumping prairies kid to get his mind around…
The water rose 26 feet on the Guadalupe River in 45 minutes before daybreak, while they were sleeping. The camp got washed away.
ReplyDeleteFlash flood warnings went out at 1am via NWS. The campers at Mystic were not allowed to have cell phones and it appears no one at the camp was monitoring weather radar or alerts. The girls were all asleep in their cabins. Flood waters hit between 4 and 5am. There were 750 girls at that camp. It's a miracle hundreds weren't killed.
DeleteThe water can rise FAST, depending on geography. And I believe that the major flood was O-dark early in the morning. Go out on Youtube and watch the tsunami videos from a few years back that an earthquake had caused..
ReplyDeleteLook up flash flood. Can happen in seconds and wasn't this one the middle of the night?
ReplyDeleteGrok says this is how much rainfall happened:
ReplyDeleteIn the Texas floods on July 4, 2025, rainfall amounts varied across the affected areas, particularly in Kerr County and the Texas Hill Country. Reports indicate widespread rainfall of 4 to 6 inches, with some areas receiving up to 10 to 15 inches in a few hours. Specifically:Kerr County: Up to 10 inches of rain fell overnight, with some areas like Hext reporting 3.25 inches in one hour (6–7 a.m.), Mason receiving 2.63 inches in an hour (5:10–6:10 a.m.), and Brady Creek getting 5.35 inches between 12:30 and 2:30 a.m.
Hunt, Texas: Approximately 6.5 inches fell in three hours early Friday, considered a 1-in-100-year rainfall event.
Texas Hill Country and Edwards Plateau: An estimated 1.8 to 2 trillion gallons of rain fell, equivalent to four months’ worth in four hours, with totals of 10 to 15 inches in some spots.
San Angelo: Reports ranged from 2 to over 10 inches, compared to the typical July average of 1.1 inches.
Around that part of the world, they not kidding about turn around. Don't become turtle food. Poor little kids.
ReplyDeleteI've done a lot of camping along that river. In most places where they are talking about, the normal water flow is knee deep with some isolated deeper swimming holes. But the flood plain is easy to see, 50 to 200 yards of flat ground on both sides before a very steep climb up to the normal ground level. Pulling an RV I gotta throw the truck in low gear to get outta there. So in good times, people that own riverside land set up campgrounds on that same flood plain and idiots like me pay good money to set the RV up right next to that cozy little stream. In bad times, not only is that campground 30 foot under water, the river itself goes from 20 ft wide to quarter mile wide and traveling at a 40 to 50 mph. Yeah, you have a very short window to evac assuming you got any warning at all. I'm starting to rethink all the campgrounds we've stayed at in the past dozen years.
ReplyDeleteWell thanks fellas. I’m one of those guys that needs either numbers or videeyah to properly frame things. Last week or so, we got a (for us) torrential downpour. It was about 1.8” in an hour or so. If you went outside you’d get soaked through in the first 10 seconds. The sewers were starting to gag and there were large puddles in places on the street. Reading Anon above and some of you guys…I’m wondering still: how do you even breathe when water is coming down like that? When we got the 1.8” in an hour it was like standing in the shower in the bathroom. 4” in an hour? 6”? That must be like standing under a fire hose…? Have any of you guys done it?
ReplyDeleteColumbus, OH, 1992: 8.5" of rain in less than 2 hours. Everything flooded. The rain pounded down so hard the water physically couldn't run off fast enough. Parking lots had two feet of standing water six hours later.
DeleteOn Father's day about 15 or so years ago here in Billings Mt there was a tornado, EF 2 or 3 and we were coming into town from a backpacking trip. There was probably 4 to 6 inches of rain in less than an hour. It was like driving in a waterfall. Streets were a foot under water and you couldn't see 2 feet in front of the car. My basement flooded. One other time same thing happened and the kids and I were out in it bailing water out of the window wells. Water was a foot deep in the yard. You couldn't breathe standing up. Had to bend over. Basement flooded that time too. Since then I have taken precautions. :)
DeleteDid a job near Sundry and a downpour came through a campground. River rose only 2 ft of water but floated the RV's off their parking spots and washed them into the river where everything had to go through a 8ft diameter culver. Needless to say everything was turned to matchsticks instantly.
DeleteI was in Gimpy Oz long ago and as we drove through after a flood I saw grass hanging from the high tension wires going across the river. 40 ft above the water level.
We got caught in a cyclone at Noosa Heads and I saw the salt spray coming sideways through the kitchen window. 100 ft above the beach. Don't mess with storms.
Mind-Blowing Time Lapse Video Shows How Quickly Flooding Happened in Texas
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Dangerous flooding.
That river went from "nothing" to "all" in the space of a minute and a half in the pre-dawn hours. That's how it happened, Glen. The same thing happens from time to time here in the West. A thunderstorm on a hill 20 miles away sends a torrent down bone-dry washes, catching campers, hikers, and off-roaders off guard. Never, NEVER camp in or around a wash in the desert!!!
ReplyDeleteTime lapse video showing the river's rise. About 3 minutes between it's regular flow & flood peak.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/mind-blowing-time-lapse-video-shows-how-quickly/
My first trip to the American Southwest. My ADHD was screaming something is missing in the towns and cities... Took me two days to notice what it was. No storm drains or sewers.
ReplyDeleteSee normally they don't need it, they get 8 inches of rain in a normal year in that part of Texas. Everything is gathered into small drainage ditches which lead to bigger drainage ditches which lead to a fucking road which leads to a two-lane road, to interstate to a field
Tell me; can you honestly say that you're prepared for ALL contingencies at your house? Can you AFFORD to be prepared for any contingency at your house? You see; that's how it works on a larger scale.
DeleteIt's because they build stupid, get away with it most of the time, and then every 40 years or so they pay for it.
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