re: Brazos River Cresting this evening. MAJOR flooding

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I rented (5) 12" pumps to the city of simonton last week. They knew it was going to be bad.

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They evacuated last year on memorial day. It was bad for them then and this time around is way worse. Good luck to all of those folks.

I live in Katy and take 99 south to 59 to work in the AM and the river looks pissed. My company also has a few oil wells in the little town of Thompson (right off the brazos), and as of 10am this morning, the entire town is inaccessible and under water.

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I live in Katy

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Without googling, it took your posts to reveal to me what the frick all of you are talking about. I didnt' have the slightest idea where this major flooding was happening. And not a single picture in this thread.

Terrible thread.

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I live in Katy and take 99 south to 59 to work in the AM and the river looks pissed. My company also has a few oil wells in the little town of Thompson (right off the brazos), and as of 10am this morning, the entire town is inaccessible and under water.

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Hell, that's where the power plant is. I wonder how all of this may affect it. And I think greatwood may be in trouble right there at 99 and 59. I want to say they got real close last year. All of this is just insane.

It usually takes me 30-35 mins to get from Sealy to 99/I-10 in Katy. I left last night at 645pm and didn't get to 99 until 815p.

Crossed Brz this am back to Sealy, and feeders are flooded up to almost a mile on either side.

Not good. Not good at all.

What about sienna plantation neighborhood?

I moved to Simonton in 1978. Experienced the two floods in 1992 and 1994 as my family home was still located there. Very few people had flood insurance in 1992 and even fewer in 1994. Entirely too many houses had been built with blatant disregard for the deed restrictions regarding the 100 year flood plain. There was a mass exodus after the second go round with people walking away from their uninsured and now-flooded homes. A lot of the people evacuating this time around bought these homes pennies on the dollar from the banks. I'm betting these new owners passed on flood insurance as well and there won't be another group coming in to scoop up their flooded homes. Sad to see these people going through the same thing. The worst part is the 2" of Brazos River mud left atop everything once the water recedes.

I along with Marlo Stansfield live in Sienna and it sounds like the other posters coworker lives close to us. as of now the ball fields are flooded (doing its job as an engineered flood plain), McKeever road is closed in one direction at the intersection of Sienna Parkway. the water was about 3 to 4 feet below the bridge just past bees creek on Sienna Parkway and I have it on good authority from my buddy in the county office that the parkway will likely be unpassable from tonight through possibly the weekend. the only way out from the back of the neighborhood will be steep bank to mcKeever (assuming McKeever's east side doesn't also flood out…if it does we are stuck like chuck with 3 to 4 days of steady rain on the way

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Brazos River

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Never heard of it.
I figured it was something in south or central America at first.

Why would I have heard of the Brazos River, never living in Texas? It doesn't seem large enough to be anything more than a recreational river for canoeing and such.