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Geocritter
Jan 01, 2016Explorer
Maybe not a Christmas specific miracle…
Maybe it’s not even a miracle but I don’t know what else to call it. Last May I was in San Marcos TX at a friend’s property living in my RV and replacing its engine. My friend had warned me that there’d been past flooding in the area with up to 3’ of flood water flooding the property in the past. I was half ways through my engine replacement when devastating floods hit the San Marcos area with the nearby Blanco River cresting at +27’ ABOVE flood stage! A small RV park I’d stayed at 2 years earlier about a quarter mile down the road flooded out and several large diesel pushers at an RV park along the Blanco River were swept away but somehow the flooding missed me. Two days later Mother Nature made another run at the area but the brunt of that flooding hit to the east of me. The only thing that makes any sense to me was my late wife Gail was up in heaven whispering in Gods ear to cut me some slack. My honey was always very persuasive!
Flood water rushing by my RV while it sits on a slightly elevated concrete slab. Notice the adjoining elevated house.
A rescue helicopter landed in the road in front of my site. The highway farther down was underwater.
Steve
Maybe it’s not even a miracle but I don’t know what else to call it. Last May I was in San Marcos TX at a friend’s property living in my RV and replacing its engine. My friend had warned me that there’d been past flooding in the area with up to 3’ of flood water flooding the property in the past. I was half ways through my engine replacement when devastating floods hit the San Marcos area with the nearby Blanco River cresting at +27’ ABOVE flood stage! A small RV park I’d stayed at 2 years earlier about a quarter mile down the road flooded out and several large diesel pushers at an RV park along the Blanco River were swept away but somehow the flooding missed me. Two days later Mother Nature made another run at the area but the brunt of that flooding hit to the east of me. The only thing that makes any sense to me was my late wife Gail was up in heaven whispering in Gods ear to cut me some slack. My honey was always very persuasive!
Flood water rushing by my RV while it sits on a slightly elevated concrete slab. Notice the adjoining elevated house.
A rescue helicopter landed in the road in front of my site. The highway farther down was underwater.
Steve
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