Bizarre Foreign Take On Hurricane Shelter

[1369]

nobody came up with any instance in which my posts made me sound "jealous", which is a perfect example of pompousness and totally changing the subject back to me

No, they're bagging on you because you come off as an uneducated, angry, little child.

[mookie2001]

"oh im mad because i have a house in Key Allegro and I just assume youre talking about me!"

[1369]

Try again slick, I don't have a house in Key Allegro. I do have a small one bedroom apartment in Rockport that I stay in during the week while I work at my job while my wife and two children live in San Antonio.

[SWC Bonfire]

Also, Cuero and Victoria are on the Guadalupe. The SA river doesn't drain into the Guadalupe.

Well, not until within a few miles of the coast, anyways.

The illustrious Army Corps of Engineers are responsible for Canyon Lake. GBRA (Guadelupe-Blanco River Authority) is responsible for the hydroelectric dams along the way down to Cuero and Victoria. GBRA was to blame for a few ups in 1998, including dumping huge amounts of water down the river and making the situation worse rather than better.

Basically, the people running things upstream could give a what happens to people downstream. They will try to save a few houses built on the ing water's edge (hey moron, build your house on a hill) before they wash MILLIONS of $$$ worth of livestock and crops down the river.

Here's free advice: don't buy or build a house anywhere near a native pecan tree.

[SWC Bonfire]

Try again slick, I don't have a house in Key Allegro. I do have a small one bedroom apartment in Rockport that I stay in during the week while I work at my job while my wife and two children live in San Antonio.

Don't forget your yacht, 1369, and your private helicopter.

[mookie2001]

sorry man, thats rough, i feel your pain


floods...
we've had 3 devasting floods since 98
the city wont do
what would happen if the country club or the american eagle got flooded with such regularity

[travis2]

Well, not until within a few miles of the coast, anyways.

The illustrious Army Corps of Engineers are responsible for Canyon Lake. GBRA (Guadelupe-Blanco River Authority) is responsible for the hydroelectric dams along the way down to Cuero and Victoria. GBRA was to blame for a few ups in 1998, including dumping huge amounts of water down the river and making the situation worse rather than better.

Basically, the people running things upstream could give a what happens to people downstream. They will try to save a few houses built on the ing water's edge (hey moron, build your house on a hill) before they wash MILLIONS of $$$ worth of livestock and crops down the river.

Here's free advice: don't buy or build a house anywhere near a native pecan tree.

It was my understanding (I could be wrong...) that most of the rain was downstream from Canyon...

[SWC Bonfire]

Well, the city of Victoria can't do anything about it raining 30 inches in New Braunfels. Low lying areas aren't a good place to live, period.

BTW, you guys probably caught the several hundred thousand pounds of pecans of ours that floated down the river.

[SWC Bonfire]

It was my understanding (I could be wrong...) that most of the rain was downstream from Canyon...

In 1998, yes.

GBRA dumped water from Nolte and Lake McQueeny in advance of receiving water from NB. This sent an ARTIFICIALLY LARGE slug of water down the river that ended up reaching our area just as we got hit by an additional 12" of rain (in the middle of the night, as well). This raised the river up higher than any geological evidence would show it has been.

Thanks, GBRA! (FYI, we only had 16 cows, 2 bulls and 32 calves drown - we were lucky. They all washed off - we later caught some downstream that had been over the damn at H-4).