flood in Austin

[colliehauler]

Weather channel was showing RV's floating down the river under the I-35 bridge. Tiberwood Rv park in New Bruffels.

Tornado in other part tossed a 5th wheel on top of a Holiday Inn roof.

[John_Joey]

When you're a Texas snowbird you learn pretty fast not to camp down by that pretty river.

FWIW, when the camp host tells you to move, move.

[colliehauler]

Sounds like people worry more about the semantics of the warning more then the event itself.

[2oldman]

johnhicks wrote:
That was from the NWS and was really never intended for "ordinary mortals" to read. It's an alert sent to media and repeated on he NWS website.

It's also on my smartphone on the Weather channel app.

[colliehauler]

Scottiemom wrote:

BarbaraOK wrote:
So is the flooding in New Braunfels or Austin?

Barb

Austin reportedly had 14.5 inches of rain yesterday.

Dale

The RV park that floated away was in New Braunfels.

[Scottiemom]

BarbaraOK wrote:
So is the flooding in New Braunfels or Austin?

Barb

Austin reportedly had 14.5 inches of rain yesterday.

Dale

[johnhicks]

That was from the NWS and was really never intended for "ordinary mortals" to read. It's an alert sent to media and repeated on he NWS website.

[2oldman]

Hiker_01 wrote:

2oldman wrote:
If they YELL it's much more scary!

Actually, it's primarily a throw back from the old teletype days. .

Old habits die hard. If they actually want people to read those things they should write it so your eyes aren't bugging out when you're done.

[Hiker_01]

2oldman wrote:
If they YELL it's much more scary!

Actually, it's primarily a throw back from the old teletype days. The keyboard design was different than the current qwerty keyboard of today. You had upper case letters if you typed normal, and if you hit shift, it went to symbols/numbers - there were no lower case letters.

[BarbaraOK]

So is the flooding in New Braunfels or Austin?

Barb

[2oldman]

If they YELL it's much more scary!

[johnhicks]

Yes, nasty stuff..

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
406 PM CDT FRI OCT 30 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN BASTROP COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
WILLIAMSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
TRAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
NORTHEASTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
WESTERN CALDWELL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
CENTRAL HAYS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 402 PM CDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING ACROSS
THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS ALREADY OCCURRING.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
AUSTIN...ROUND ROCK...CEDAR PARK...GEORGETOWN...PFLUGERVILLE...SAN
MARCOS...TAYLOR...LOCKHART...ELGIN...WIMBERLEY...GRANGER...
WINDEMERE...TANGLEWOOD FOREST...ANDERSON MILL...SERENADA...AUSTIN
BERGSTROM INT AP...KYLE...LEANDER...HUTTO AND LAKEWAY.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED
AREA. EVEN THROUGH RAIN IS DISSIPATING RUNOFF FROM EARLIER STORMS
WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

STAY AWAY OR BE SWEPT AWAY. RIVER BANKS AND CULVERTS CAN BECOME
UNSTABLE AND UNSAFE.

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&