Brazos Gets Ornery Again
(River • )
It figures that after trickling along at ridiculously low and stinky levels for almost three-quarters of the year, the Brazos River might feel the need to assert itself.
That’s happening now, the result of days and days of mostly rain upstream between here and Waco. Barely 11 or 12 feet deep here in Richmond for the past several months, the Brazos, brown, sore and swollen, rose past the 33-foot mark today at about 2 p.m. It’s forecast to hit about 40 feet sometime on Halloween.
That’s not really a problem for us here, although downstream at Rosharon they’ll probably flood and get nasty. They usually do. Around here, real flooding doesn’t begin until 48 feet. At 40 feet, residents on the river merely exchange brush with our neighbors. Our stick piles float off to the east, to be replaced with Jimmy’s stick piles chugging in from the west.
The willow tree mostly submerged in the photo above usually provides shade for us while engaged at our favorite fishing hole. The place we usually park our chairs is about 12 feet under water now. Click on the photo for a (warning) much bigger look. And keep in mind that this river still gets a lot more unwieldy.
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