Audry, I am sorry to hear about your damage.

dave said:We had what I'm almost certain a tornado a few minutes ago. Countless huge oaks trees are flat on the ground. Happily everyone here is safe but without power.

Oh Wow.

@Dave I am so sorry to hear about the damage to your property but very glad your family wasn't harmed.

We got the tail end of your storm here in Hot Springs Village, and although we had no damage to our property, there are many, many trees down along with loss of electricity in some areas.

It makes me so sad to see the destruction and loss of life with the flashfloods and makes me wonder if people who live/rent near the river know of the danger. It seems once you think you are in danger, it is too late. What kind of warnings are sent?
Glad that you and your family are safe, Dave. Hopefully your cattle is accounted for too..

I saw videos of the flooding on TV tonight, just terrible.

I hope our Houston peeps are o.k. it is way worse than I thought it was. Parts of north Texas has some bad storms again tonight.

Oh dear, I hope everyone stays safe.

I think I might have had enough rain to wash the big tree that's hung in the west water gap and send it on down the river. Likely it'll stop in the east water gap. Lots of rain, lots and lots of lightening - the electricity went off every few minutes, some hail but not much wind at my place. I think other parts of the county probably didn't fare as well according to the news. I'll wait 'til a.m. to assess it all. Aside from all the bad stuff, the rain has made things really green. It's been a while since it's looked this green. I had a couple of old throwaway dogs that got old and died. They used to love to see me come out the door. They got so excited. I don't think, though, they got any more excited to see me than the mosquitoes when I come through the door. I have a lot more than a couple of those.

to ALL of you in that great big state who have been dealing with all this day after day after day. It seems one can't even keep up with the news of the areas hit & destruction from day to day. I feel for everyone who got damage & mourn the loss of lives.

Really feeling bad about your floodings there. Hope that Padera lake dam they are featuring on the news this morning continues to hold..it would exacerbate already a bad situation.

The problem on the rivers has always been the extremely fast flash flood rise & the huge wall of water thing and the difficulty of predicting what will happen in enough time to get people to safety. I know the Guadalupe River has instruments all along the river and a system in place to reach people through reverse 911/text messages & such, not to mention TV. Even where I live, my cell phone was going off with text flood warnings quite a few times that night and once in the morning and I don't live by a river. I'm not sure what all the Blanco River has set up, but there was something in one news story that claimed that in Hays Co. nobody has claimed that they didn't get any warning at all. BUT as many know, people tend to downplay such things, stay put in denial. In the case of that house that went down the Blanco River with all those people in it...it said neighbors had come by to urge them to leave and said the dentist got in his car, but then went back into the house. The car was found afterward, smashed into a tree, with the engine still running, the house gone. One man in that group survived with injuries, their dog was found in a tree and was okay. When it comes to evacuating along a river, sometimes every second counts and better to leave before it's too late to go.

canadanna said:It makes me so sad to see the destruction and loss of life with the flashfloods and makes me wonder if people who live/rent near the river know of the danger. It seems once you think you are in danger, it is too late. What kind of warnings are sent?
Glad that you and your family are safe, Dave. Hopefully your cattle is accounted for too..

Our DD just made it to Wimberley with supplies and more food for her friends. She stopped by here to pick up an extra cooler at about 10, and called at 11 from under a tree on the hwy. It was hailing and she couldn't see because of the sheeting rain. The storm just popped up. When there was a lull, she headed out again on 281, but soon called to say the rain and hail picked up and she was again pulled off the hwy. I asked her to please come back to Austin (she's too old spank and I can't take her keys away). She made it to Wimberley without knowing Blanco county had a tornado touch down near by. I'm going to worry until she gets back to Austin.

@LindaTX8 One of those missing couples have relatives in our subdivision. Very sad.

@Bubbles Sandi they had four tornadoes touch down in Blanco today, not just one. Glad she is o.k. It is crazy the radar was clear then it wasn't. If you look at the future radar forecasts for today through tomorrow there is all kinds of pop up stuff, some being potentially bad. Everyone keep an eye on the radar and an emergency alert system programed in your phone. It is dark here now. So much for the sunshine we were supposed to have today

@needrain Donald I am sorry about your pups and tree loss.

@Esperanza I saw the four touchdowns, but I was more concerned by the one closest to where DD was heading.

Esperanza said:@needrain Donald I am sorry about your pups and tree loss.

Thanks Audrey,

The girls were very old and had gotten decrepit. In their upper 80s in terms of a dog's life. They were each close to about a year old when someone threw them out in the country. They really were lucky. And happy out here in the boonies! Really happy. I still miss them because they went with me anywhere I walked, but their lives could have been so much shorter and so much worse than it turned out to be for them. I hate it about the oak trees. It takes them so long to be old, mature trees. I'm not sure they will ever be replaced.

I just learned that a tornado touched down in my ancestral area of the county and I have to go check on a relatives property. The house is currently unoccupied, but it's still used on weekends and other times. Flooding all around me today. The weather is just astonishing these last few weeks.

We are getting what y'all in Texas have been getting. We've had over 10" of rain the last two days at my house but we are not flooding anywhere as far as I know. With the saturated ground, if we get much more rain, we'll flood though. I don't have to worry about flooding here at the house since the house sits on a small hill. We would have to get 10-12 FEET of rain to reach the house. Of course, if we got that, Starkville would no longer exist.

Good luck to all of you in Texas and Oklahoma (and probably more places now). I hope this system moves out (but not onto us) and you dry out.

I feel very badly for everyone that has to deal with those terrible storms that bring tornadoes and floods.

@needrain I'm so relieved that you've explained what throwaway dogs are. I had very different perception.