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In reply to the discussion: Texas [View all]Melon
(1,089 posts)5. 6 months of rain in 2 days. The majority that day.
That area got 15 inches on rocky soil. Plus everything up river was coming. Camp mystic had been right where it was for 100 years and had no history like this to go off.
The storm system kept recycling itself over the same area and creating new storms. The people on here playing the blame game are doing it for optics or their own self hatred. They are recovering bodies from fifteen foot up in trees right now.
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Yes! A hundred square miles of heavy rain channeling down natural gullies multiplies the effect dramatically
wolfie001
Jul 2025
#14
In the lead up to the storm as it passed over here the evaporation rate was tremendous...
Hugin
Jul 2025
#24
Well... good luck, Texas. Start your own weather service and satellite observations. Fund your own *
Oopsie Daisy
Jul 2025
#2
Tx officials just warned residents that they must prepare for lengthy electric
allegorical oracle
Jul 2025
#11
not appropriate to post here, but has anyone else felt the need to listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood?
spike jones
Jul 2025
#7