Community Chat

[monicakm]

How can 25 in of rain fall in 45 minutes? All those children that died and I wonder if they'll find more🥺. And the children that survived are most likely going to need counseling for, among other things, survivor guilt.

[shoekitty]

Flash flooding phenomium. Huge amounts of rain fall all at once.  The grounds ability to absorb water is not there.  Hard ground.  The water just rises, and it is fast.

we were on motorcycles coming out of Las Vegas in the late 1980's.  There was flash flooding a few miles in back of us. Scariest moments ever.!!!  The water rises like river, and is fast. Sometimes it comes from sudden snow melt, a dam break or leak. In our case,heavy , massive rain cloud burst, and drought hard , packed soil 

[kze]

Yes, besides the drought that caused the rock hard soil our weather people gave another reason.  There's been a low pressure sitting over our area that has had nothing to move it for a few days.  Normally heavy rain moves fairly quickly through an area but this just stalled and accumulated.  I don't pretend to completely understand this so I hope it makes sense.  

Edited.  The majority was about 45" but not all of it.

[Nonametoday]

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@shoekitty wrote:

Flash flooding phenomium. Huge amounts of rain fall all at once.  The grounds ability to absorb water is not there.  Hard ground.  The water just rises, and it is fast.

we were on motorcycles coming out of Las Begas in the late 1980's.  There was flash flooding a few miles in back of us. Scariest moments ever.  The water rises like river, and is fast. Sometimes it comes from sudden snow melt, a dam break or leak. 

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@shoekitty 

It's the closest thing that fresh water would have to a tsunami.  

[Caffeina]

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@monicakm wrote:
How can 25 in of rain fall in 45 minutes? All those children that died and I wonder if they'll find more🥺. And the children that survived are most likely going to need counseling for, among other things, survivor guilt.

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That's about how how much the river rose in 45 minutes, not how many inches it rained.

[SilleeMee]

Rising sea levels (from glacier melts) cause more water to go up into the atmosphere and then the water in the atmosphere falls back onto the earth in the form of rain or snow. It's only going to get worse in the coming months and years.

Flooding is happening all over the globe.

[Desert Lily]

6-15 inches of rain fell at a rate of 3-6 inches per hour. The Guadalupe River surged 20-27 feet in 45-60 minutes in various areas is what I read on the Fox Weather website.

[Kachina624]

Kerrville is in the Hill Country.  Not only did a lot of rain come down but it ran off all the hills in the area into the Guadalupe River and other tributaries.   Flash floods are very common in the Hill Country.  All the low places along their highways have flood water measuring poles to show how deep water is.

This instance was much worse than most, but not the worst ever.

[MoJoV]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

Rising sea levels (from glacier melts) cause more water to go up into the atmosphere and then the water in the atmosphere falls back onto the earth in the form of rain or snow. It's only going to get worse in the coming months and years.

Flooding is happening all over the globe.

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I remember hearing this was going to happen from the science community a few years ago.  Here it is.  It's real and going to affect the world.

[rms1954]

It's weather.  There are no explanations.