http://herald-zeitung.com/news/local_news/article_082ec136-924e-11e0-82bc-001cc4c03286.html

Friend of mine...he floated for MANY miles riding a cooler downstream. He said he was sure his wife and daughter had been lost, but had actually been rescued much earlier after they were all separated. Amazing story...

Good morning sunshine.

Rvs lost again under IH 35

I remember when Linda built her house on as high a pier system as high as the city would allow only to watch it float away when the spillway was breached in 2002. Not in pieces, the whole place.

I watched that happen on the tv news. Wasn’t that a Memorial Day flood, or July 4?

The City should close that RV park, anybody get washed down the river this time?

6.5 in New Braunfels, RiverChase area.

I remember the 98 flood fondly, we got a week off school and even after we went back, the school got water in it so it wasnt school as normal lol.

Parents lost our first TT in that flood to the Cibolo Creek, it was parked in a storage lot, out of the 50 or so TT's that were in that storage lot, it was the only one that floated.

I heard they lost a couple RVs but everyone got out.

Not as fortunate near my place this morning for a mother and one of their children it seems
Very, very sad. I can tell you the same creek comes across FM1518 less than a mile east (downstream) from this crossing on Greytown road where these poor folks got washed away in it.
I will only say that if FM1518 didn't have any barricades out this morning in either direction when I went through at 5:15am I seriously doubt there were any up yet on greytown road.
The water was every bit of 300 yards wide coming across 1518 up to about 10" deep when I crossed early so that little crossing had to be horribly bad.


https://www.ksat.com/news/local/202...y-by-floodwaters-in-st-hedwig-5-rescued/

Damn 68
That must have been really bad to deal with.
I can vividly remember some boats and RVs going over the McQueeny damn and just exploding into tiny pieces when they hit the whitewash at the bottom in that 98 flood.

July 4th. It was weird, because they kinda knew when it was going to breach. We had a barbecue at our house form residents who lived just down from the spillway. Poor people, everything they could not take with them went gone gone.

This was lake Placid. Wasn’t bad, ended up getting out with large tow truck and forklift. Gutted it out and it was a deer lease camper only for the next 15 years. It was only 1 year old at that time. Was going to haul it to or lease in Mason County the next weekend. Oh well.
The camper is about 200 yards from the river, the property is close the boat ramp under I10.
Notice the level of the water, this pic was taken Sunday morning. After all the rain Friday and Saturday.

Wow

I will never forget that 98 flood
I helped clean about 3'-4' of mud out of AC's Place on Dunlap.
It was absolutely horrible

BIL house 50 yards from river on 14’ piers, water was lapping the bottom of the house. Old house where camper was parked next to had 5’ in it. That house has flooded several times since the 50’s.

Skipper's house was a full foot outta the flood plane and he wouldn't buy flood insurance. He got 30 inches in the 2nd story.

Lessons learned the hard way..

That '98 flood was bad at Grapetown (Luckenbach). The guy we'd bought our place from kept 20 acres and put a mobile home on it. 'Nicest place he'd ever lived in. They were putting his "girlfriend's" (he was in his 70's at the time) grandchildren up in the trees during the storm. Had to call for rescue. We found and returned twenty dollar bills on the banks of the creek that they'd stashed in the mobile home. He and her moved into town, but her daughter and her husband built a house on 3 acres that they were given, 300 yards away from where all this happened; maybe a foot higher ground. People do stupid stuff when something's free.