River Report: Wet With A Chance Of More
(River • )
I’d been idly following the progress of a rather sudden rise in the Brazos River water level beginning up around Waco a few days ago and, sure as gravity, it showed up here beginning Saturday. Yesterday we noted whatever that foam is that floats on the river whenever it’s about to assert itself. The river had been running at about 13 feet, but then it was 18 feet and rising, and I see that the boys down at the Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service say it’ll reach above 35 feet at Richmond by Wednesday.
That means it might top the banks around here, and my really good collection of pecan and sycamore sticks will probably end up in Freeport somewhere. Actually, we’re planning about four days of rain on top of the extra water Waco sent us, so Freeport might even end up with a few abandoned Rosharon appliances, too.
That’s how I judge the seriousness of a Brazos River episode. If 4-foot-diameter tree trunks and washing machines are chugging down the center channel faster than I can run, surf’s up.
→ B.Dunn, Feb 01, 2010, 04 53 am
I’ve been kinda wondering about that. Wet as everything is around here, the river is way low, almost at summertime levels.
I figuered they were filling up Possum Kingdom, and reservoirs north, and it just wasn’t coming on down.
I’ll take note when I cross over in an hour or so, and when I come back home about 1700.
— jdallen Feb 1, 05:59 am #
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I don’t mind that it’s rising as long as it doesn’t get high enough to deposit mud and sand all over the lawn. The Brazos needs flushing out every three months or so.
Last year about this time it got summertime low and staid there, and then we got a bunch of golden algae, dead fish and a couple hundred guest vultures for most of the spring.
— bob Feb 1, 11:42 am #
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It’s up about a foot, is all, here at the 521 bridge.
— jdallen Feb 1, 05:15 pm #
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