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Texas flood
Jul. 5th, 2025 09:15There's a music group by that name. Texas Flood. True Texas rock and roll.
But today it is where we are rather than someone playing guitar. The floods down south have worked their way up here. We are perfectly safe. The summer after we moved into this house it rained like this and flooded all around so I know we are not in a dangerous place. But not so much for new houses down the valley from us. I tried to get a picture this morning of the South Fork of the San Gabriel river. It has, as they say, spilled its banks.
About 15 years ago it rained like it is now. It was June and It just kept coming. I used to ride my bike on the back roads around here and frequented one that cut across the river in a couple of places, low water crossings. After the rains the Georgetown lake backed up 15 miles or so and the water that I was riding across when it was dribbling slowly over the crossing was now at a high water mark of 20 or so feet up the trees on it's bank. The whole valley below us was flooded. It was pretty amazing to see and note after it had receeded by the remnants on the trees.
I don't think we're going to be near that now but it is trying hard. A couple of more days with rain like this morning would do it. Our back yard is typically dry but we are downhill from the rest of the houses on our street and next to a storm drain that has, apparently, backed up.
I'm listening to a pretty serious rumble of thunder that is rolling down the valley just like the river so we might not be done yet.
Earlier I drove down to get some bagels and crossed over the San Gabriel. I've been watching for the past year or so as they built a development on the banks of the river remembering, as I do, that the water had flooded up those very banks not so long ago. It has not reached the lower houses yet but I suspect the people in them are reviewing their flood insurance or, more likely, their lack of it.
I was going to write more but this computer is too slow and stops when I start to type at times so rather than do something with it I'll regret, I'll stop.
But today it is where we are rather than someone playing guitar. The floods down south have worked their way up here. We are perfectly safe. The summer after we moved into this house it rained like this and flooded all around so I know we are not in a dangerous place. But not so much for new houses down the valley from us. I tried to get a picture this morning of the South Fork of the San Gabriel river. It has, as they say, spilled its banks.
About 15 years ago it rained like it is now. It was June and It just kept coming. I used to ride my bike on the back roads around here and frequented one that cut across the river in a couple of places, low water crossings. After the rains the Georgetown lake backed up 15 miles or so and the water that I was riding across when it was dribbling slowly over the crossing was now at a high water mark of 20 or so feet up the trees on it's bank. The whole valley below us was flooded. It was pretty amazing to see and note after it had receeded by the remnants on the trees.
I don't think we're going to be near that now but it is trying hard. A couple of more days with rain like this morning would do it. Our back yard is typically dry but we are downhill from the rest of the houses on our street and next to a storm drain that has, apparently, backed up.
I'm listening to a pretty serious rumble of thunder that is rolling down the valley just like the river so we might not be done yet.
Earlier I drove down to get some bagels and crossed over the San Gabriel. I've been watching for the past year or so as they built a development on the banks of the river remembering, as I do, that the water had flooded up those very banks not so long ago. It has not reached the lower houses yet but I suspect the people in them are reviewing their flood insurance or, more likely, their lack of it.
I was going to write more but this computer is too slow and stops when I start to type at times so rather than do something with it I'll regret, I'll stop.