Memorial Day weekend, we received a record amount of rain in Central Texas. We had multiple tornado touchdowns. We had significant flash flooding which devastated several areas including Wimberley, San Marcos, Bastrop, and Austin. Lake Travis rose over 20 feet in 7 days and will continue to rise this week.
Round Rock had significant flash flooding with several road closures. We ended up bunking out in our master bedroom closet as we were put under a tornado warning for a little while. Luckily, it died out right as it came over us, and we are very grateful. It's estimated we received 9 inches of rain, but it wouldn't surprise me if we received more. The storm was very slow moving which means it sat over our area for a significant amount of time.
Our house (and our street) sit at the lowest point of our neighborhood. We have a culvert directly behind our backyard which flows into a flooding area and nearby Brushy Creek. Brushy Creek (which has been relatively dry from a drought for years) over flowed its banks yesterday.
Our backyard has a French drain behind the garage. It acts as a drain for several houses in our neighborhood. We are used to the backyard pooling with water during heavy rains as the flow comes from our neighbors houses as well, and the drain becomes overwhelmed with the flow (hence the pooling). Because of the insane amount of rain yesterday, we experienced significant flooding in our backyard, front yard, and the street was flooded. One of our neighbors fences was knocked out. Andrew had to go out and help another neighbor (during the storm) by putting mulch bags in front of his door because the water was starting to come in his house. It was insane, crazy. Words can't properly describe the events we saw.
I took these pictures of our backyard and front yard. The first pictures show the initial flooding, then it receded a bit. The latter pictures show the large surge we received. Luckily, our house was safe and just about 1-2 inches got in the front of the garage. We're lucky, but many people weren't in our area. Please keep us in your prayers as we are expected to see even more rain this week.
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| This is a view of our neighbors yard and the flow we are receiving from several houses |
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| This was the worst of it. It started overflowing into the yard behind use and flooded their yard |
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| That's our garage to the left |
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| I took this from our front door. |
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| After all the rain and water receded, we were lucky enough to have a gorgeous sunset! |
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