The Great Flood of 2010

Yesterday it started to rain, and I mean RAIN around noon, and it didn't stop until this morning around 7:30! This is the most rain I think that I've ever seen in my life at one time. I heard that we were getting somewhere around 3 1/2 inches per hour! It stormed ALL night last night. There was thunder and lightening, I now understand where they get the term "rolling thunder." I knew there was a lot going on out there because I NEVER wake up at night to storms, but I was up all night last night due to all of the storms going on. It didn't help that Chase was on the bed shaking it all night.

So, when R called me right after he left and told me to get out and drive around the neighborhood and take pictures, I couldn't wait to get out and see what was going on. Of course I first had to wait for Mr. Man to wake up. But as soon as he was up, we were out the door. Oh how I do love a good piece of "gossip" if that is what you can call this!

Let me preface this with, we are in, what I consider the high ground. I mean, we do live in the hill country. The weather radio kept going off last night for flash flood warnings, but I never thought that meant our neighborhood. Well, it did! Not our house, because in our neighborhood, we do live up on the hill. Our neighborhood is very natural and has lots of "valleys" that are dry and full of grass. Take a look at what they look like now!

Our neighborhood is made up of a bunch of smaller neighborhoods. When you are coming out of our part (at the very back of the whole thing), there is an option to turn left. This is a dead end and it's a good thing today! I guess we are working on making a lake there with rapids and all!

Here is one of the "valleys" that runs the length of the neighborhood. Like I said, this is usually bone dry and just grassy. Now it's probably at least 4 feet deep and gushing along.

Can you see the small white caps?!

Then you get to the retention pond at the front of the neighborhood. Yeah, well, not so much now. We have a full blown lake in our neighborhood now!

Ok, this one really got me. One of the front streets has this wall built of rocks (there are a lot of them around here) and this wall turned into a beautiful waterfall. The kids asked me if that waterfall has always been there! No, but it is pretty. Except that it has brought a lot of the large rocks down into the road.

I soon realized that I was meeting cars that had turned around to go back home and that noone was turning right out of the neighborhood. I went back to the retention pond where I found about 20 cars parked and everyone out of their cars looking at our new lake. I realized that the major road that runs right by our house was closed because our lake had flooded it. Not just flooded it, it was raging across the road and was pretty deep.

Just past the tractor in this picture is where the water was running across the road.

We are supposed to get rain all day long today which means more flooding. It's neat to look at beacuse it's not affecting me and my family, but I'm sure there are some people being affected, so please say a prayer for them that everything is ok and that the rain stops before doing any real damage, assuming it hasn't already.

I hope you have a great day and STAY DRY!