I don't know how many of y'all heard about the flooding in Texas, but my sister sent me some pictures that were taken at the school she teaches at in Texas. All I can say is WOW!!! That is going to take awhile to clean up.

I'm not sure if this was taken before or after the dam broke. I'm asuming it is before b/c there are still students in the school and they evacuated the school after the dam broke.

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This is looking out the front doors.

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This is a park in front of the school.

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This is the teacher's parking lot...or should we say river. A very FAST moving river.

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This is another picture of the parking lot. Not sure if it's the same one or one of the others.

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This is a picture of the school sign. The rain was so hard it knocked off the "E" at the end of Hearne.

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That's a lot of water.

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I saw it on the news. It reminds me of a huge flood we had last May here. Rained about 8" in a few hours one night and the next morning the Chattahoochee River(major river) had overflowed. It flooded part of the city a couple of miles from here and damaged some buildings. It took about a week for everything to get back to normal.

Originally posted by Brent88
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I saw it on the news. It reminds me of a huge flood we had last May here. Rained about 8" in a few hours one night and the next morning the Chattahoochee River(major river) had overflowed. It flooded part of the city a couple of miles from here and damaged some buildings. It took about a week for everything to get back to normal.

Hearne had 18" of rain then after the dam broke some roads were under 3 feet of water.

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Originally posted by Ags2000
Hearne had 18" of rain then after the dam broke some roads were under 3 feet of water.

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Where is Hearne Texas? I live around the Dallas/Ft Worth area and I had not heard about it. Wow!

Originally posted by Princess2003
Where is Hearne Texas? I live around the Dallas/Ft Worth area and I had not heard about it. Wow!

I just looked it up, it's just north of the Bryan/College Station area which is southeast of Waco.

Originally posted by Brent88
I just looked it up, it's just north of the Bryan/College Station area which is southeast of Waco.

:D Thats exacylt where it is. It's on Highway 6 between C/S and Waco. It's about a half hour north of College Station. If you've ever traveled hwy 6, you have to go through it, no choice

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Originally posted by Ags2000
:D Thats exacylt where it is. It's about a half hour north of College Station.

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OHHHH Okay! I know where College Station is. Thanks for the info.

I'm glad we missed all that water. My area just got wind and heavy rain for about 1/2 an hr.

Here are several links to some footage of Hearne. The aerial was taken today.

http://media.l-s.com/KBTX/damage4%20lg.wmv

http://media.l-s.com/KBTX/damage3%20lg.wmv

http://media.l-s.com/KBTX/damage2%20lg.wmv

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Originally posted by Princess2003
OHHHH Okay! I know where College Station is. Thanks for the info.

No prob.

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That sucks...:o

Looks like the storms are finally over with and we won't be seeing another chance until Monday, maybe. Here in Houston, it rained for 10+ hours straight yesterday. I caught all of the footage up in Hearne and College Station.. good grief. ohno:

Originally posted by little insomniac
Looks like the storms are finally over with and we won't be seeing another chance until Monday, maybe. Here in Houston, it rained for 10+ hours straight yesterday. I caught all of the footage up in Hearne and College Station.. good grief. ohno:

Sorry to hear that! Springtime here in TX sucks! :rolleyes:

Originally posted by I'maDESIlover
Sorry to hear that! Springtime here in TX sucks! :rolleyes:

True, but at least we can't say it's boring. :lol:

Originally posted by little insomniac
Looks like the storms are finally over with and we won't be seeing another chance until Monday, maybe. Here in Houston, it rained for 10+ hours straight yesterday. I caught all of the footage up in Hearne and College Station.. good grief. ohno:

Hurricane season starts in 2 1/2 weeks. :eek:

Originally posted by Brent88
Hurricane season starts in 2 1/2 weeks. :eek:

I know, and even though we may not see any this year, I'm not looking forward to it. Especially since it doesn't end until November. :(

Those pics are wild Ags. I heard about it on the news. Stay safe. :)

Originally posted by little insomniac
True, but at least we can't say it's boring. :lol:

Especially when I live in Tornado Alley; I consider myself lucky since my small town has missed some of the worst tornadoes (like the one in Jasper 97)

Originally posted by Janice
Those pics are wild Ags. I heard about it on the news. Stay safe. :)


Plan on it. I was supposed to go up there this week...but that didn't happen. I'm just glad my sister was flooded in at her place and wasn't at the school when the dam broke.

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Originally posted by Jen1989
Oh, I know. When I got here to Houston, Thursday afternoon, it was raining. When I left the Univ. which is three hours away from Houston, it was pouring, and I got to Houston and the weather was just as bad.

What lousy timing (the rain and all) for you to be back in town. I never thought it'd let up! :eek:

Originally posted by I'maDESIlover
Especially when I live in Tornado Alley; I consider myself lucky since my small town has missed some of the worst tornadoes (like the one in Jasper 97)

Oooo, the one in Jasper.. yeah, that was scary. I'm really glad your town missed that one. :( But I agree with you, about living in Tornado Alley and all.