Lake Travis impact from recent rain (estimates, average, flooding)

[cBach]

Originally Posted by scm53

What a complete nonsequiteur. Pointless comparison. One hopes you do in fact understand the difference between people that are either so oblivious to their surroundings or reckless enough to blindly drive into high water - and the people who have chosen to serve others and rescue these idjits. You do understand the difference, don't you?

Frankly, on Memorial Day, this odious attempt to make a debating point is especially distasteful. One could extend that faulty logic onto every person that we are giving our gratitude for today. In my twenty seven years as a Navy carrier aviator, I lost dozens of friends. All of us chose that career in full recognition that we chose a "profession in which their lives are at danger". To say that life of selfless service is the same as recklessly driving into high water cheapens that sacrifice.

Disgusting.

No I don't understand the difference in wanting somebody to perish, either way. A sailor perishing or a cowboy that was coming back home late at night after tending to the cattle at the ranch and is tired and not thinking clearly and can't see ahead and doesn't realize there is a low crossing road that is flooded and then gets sucked away by the water does not deserve to be a victim of the "darwin awards." Both are lives that are valuable and need to be honored. And before you say "But I bet the cowboy was drunk, he deserves it." Well, don't you think the sailor was drunk too? My best friend was a sailor, he told me what happens on and off shore. People should value people, period.

And saying that just because someone falls into the low end of the IQ spectrum they deserve to die is equally disgusting. One life is not more important than another.

[cBach]

Llano River is above flood stage, great news for Lake Travis:

5/25/15 4:10 PM 10.08' 19459 cfs, 10' flood stage

[ToddATX]

Lake Travis is at 649.38 now, and with Llano flooded we should still be coming up for days, even if this rain subsides. This is awesome.

[LI2Texas]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

So poor people are not entitled to as much water as rich people?

No, actually. No one is entitled to anything.

[10scoachrick]

Where's that strawman?

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by cBach

I would totally be for having sensors and automatic gates when it floods, just like a train crossing. But they currently don't have those!.

As long as it's paid for with "other people's money", right?

[LI2Texas]

Originally Posted by Gorfml

It was a hypothetical...

Most of these ppl who go thru low water can see what's going on but just go for it... Same piggies who try to go around traffic in the merge lane... Wash them away!...

I doubt that. When it's pouring you can hardly see water on roads until it's too late.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by Nor Cal Wahine

I have a high water marker two doors down from me at the end of my road and see them all over the place out here.

I mean no disrespect, but wringing hands and proposing multi-million dollar solutions to solve rare occurrences of flood damage and save Darwin candidates from themselves is exactly the extreme nannyism that folks here complain endlessly about other states *coughCaliforniacough* subjecting residents to. That's not the Texas way.

Originally Posted by cBach

But wasting taxpayers money on needless feeder roads "is the Texas way" huh?

And that's another kind of comment ("We didn't have those where I came from and I don't like them so you shouldn't have them even if they HAVE worked just fine here for a very long time) that fits into the category that Nor Cal Wahine is referencing above.

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by cBach

But wasting taxpayers money on needless feeder roads "is the Texas way" huh?

Who decided they are needless.

[cBach]

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

And that's another kind of comment ("We didn't have those where I came from and I don't like them so you shouldn't have them even if they HAVE worked just fine here for a very long time) that fits into the category that Nor Cal Wahine is referencing above.

Touche'.

You got me, but you have to admit many Texans are awfully sensitive and defensive when it comes to criticism. I never criticize Texas culture like BBQ or TexMex food but safety is always one of my concerns and I think we can all agree about that. I have a son about to enter driving age. I would hate to think that the first time he enters a low crossing road, if he is swept away that people would think he deserved it.