We got hammered with rain in our area (Burnet to Austin). We have a cabin out on the North Branch of the San Gabriel (north of Lake Georgetown) and were forced to evacuate by the county on Saturday. The county was super cautious due to what happened on the Guadalupe on Friday. Such a tragedy there!
There is an RV park just down river from us that they were most concerned about so evacuated a low area that we all were in. This is data (water height) from a sensor a mile or so south of out property. Data is from January 1, 2020 until yesterday. Shows that 10 feet is common level for floods in the spring but this weekend‘s level went to 26.5 up from around normal of 2.5 feet.
The river was as high as I have seen it and was incredibly impressive. But honestly not too much damage to anything. The county road bridge was under water and the railings were damaged (see below), some trees are broken or leaning and one old (over 100 years old) bridge near Joppa Church was washed away. It had been replaced with a concrete structure but was left standing until the flood took it down.
