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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Update 2: Texas Hill Country Storms



I am watching this closely, it's only affecting me as to driving in bad weather so far and what income I can earn this weekend.  Which is nothing compared to what some of these people are experiencing right now.  My apartment is ground floor and is near a wetlands, but there is a 15 foot drop off to the wet area in the forest, and I see no threat right now. 

Flooding is not unheard of in the Texas Hill Country (a 90 minute drive from my place).  I think the last major one was in 2018 which hit Lake LBJ pretty hard taking out the bridge on RM 2900, which has since been replaced with a much improved bridge.  I was in either TN or WA at that time. The Llano river crest is starting to come into the Lake LBJ now, but my friend Bev is safe as that area has had mild rains.  The Highland lakes feed Lake Travis which is a large part of Austin's water supply.

In Georgetown the San Gabriel river is 29 feet above flood stage so there's going to be major flooding there.  That whole area has a huge amount of new housing built since 2016 for all the people moving to Texas.   I'm about 10 miles to the south of Georgetown. 

Kerrville was having problems with Mexican cartels moving into the area and also Mexican gangs.  I am pretty sure that has already been dealt with by ICE.  Kerrville got hit very hard, people missing and dead in the flash floods.  Some rumors floating around of a "blue rain" falling on the ground which may be evidence of some weather modification with waterphilic hydrogels. 

PS: Donations were lean this month, I thought I'd be okay given the way my bills fall and this weekend, I thought I could work enough to make up the slack but the rain is not helping at all, slows down what I can do by about 50%.   Getting concerned about Monday.  If you could help the blog out it would be greatly appreciated. 





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