East Texas is flooded...again. My old place is under water, with near record river levels. Glad to be out of there, as Lake Livingston 2 days ago was releasing more water out it's floodgates than it did during Hurricane Harvey. My 2 sisters and nephews/nieces still live there but are on high ground and doing ok, but can't get into town easily, as still too many roads under water. I do have friends there, who have had several feet of water in their homes, and I do feel for them. My old property began just 45' off to the right of this picture.

This, is why ya don't drive thru high water. You never know what has happened under the surface of the water, no matter how well you know the road and I know that road extremely well. 2 days ago, photo taken by my old County Constable Sam Houston while manning a roadblock to keep morons from trying their luck. .



Earlier Saturday afternoon, the water had receded enough to see the blacktop and center stripe, revealing a washout about 14" deep and around 100' long. Asphalt and a good bit of the substrate is gone. Ya don't have to be a genius to figure out what would have happened if some local had tried to make it in his bubba truck 2 days ago.. Almost same spot as the above picture, just a little more light.



I got another 4" of rain here in Central Tx last night. Not sure how much we've gotten in the last 2 weeks but probably pushing 20" now. Every cell that came thru here, moved on over to East Texas.

The same river, crossing a different highway, about 10 river miles upstream from my old property.



Winter's Bayou 2 days ago, which is a tributary of the East Fork San Jacinto River, the same river which was my East property line. The bayou dumps into the river about 1/4 mile south of my old place.



(Not unusual to have waterways come up under clear blue skies when there has been lots of rain on the upper watershed, many miles away)

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quote Originally posted by Patrick: So you'd rather be dealing with a flooded out house? Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

This is true. Not too far from where my son lives is a strip of land close to the banks of a tributary to the Raritan river. At one time, I understand there were several homes on that strip. Now one remains. Storm Ida came along a few years ago and zap, that house's 1st floor was underwater. Can surmise that had occurred before & that's why the other houses were abandoned. You would think the remaining guy would have bugged out after Ida but no, soon after Ida the dumpsters arrived and reconstruction began. Now it looks nice again...waiting for the next Ida to come along . As you say...

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