Water Rescue in Sanger

[planosteve]

Two guys on top of a pickup close to Duck Creek. Ch 8 is broadcasting.

[planosteve]

A chopper has shown up. Water is rising. One guy is in the chopper.

[planosteve]

2nd guy is being pulled in. Only the top of the cab was out of the water.

[Sangersteve]

The flooding is west of I-35, those guys were trapped just before the creek makes a hard left to turn under 35. As the water came under 35 there is more flat land for the water to spread out. One right lane of 35 was shut down as water was slightly over 35.

The scene is quite fascinating, water on 35 and 1/4 mile east, the small bridge is 6 feet above the water in the creek.

[tx3653]

Ask the soldiers doing the rescue and the guys getting pulled out of danger how much more rain they need.

[BigTex]

Army helicopters! What the hell are they doing in Texas?!

[millergrovesue]

Army helicopters! What the hell are they doing in Texas?!

Uh, Ft. Hood?

In 1979 I was washed off a low water bridge, on Onion Creek, in Austin. Had just crossed it, the first time, 5 minutes previously, taking my niece and nephew, who were little kids, to evening church and it was dry. It was another blessing that they weren't in the car because I could never have saved them. It was a true flash flood. I had no idea they happened on Onion Creek prior to that night.

Thank God and a convenient barbed wire fence I lived to tell the story. My car, a 1964 VW (no, Mad Magazine they din't float) was completely under water for a number of hours. My survival (hand over handed it with feet on one wire hands on a higher wire while a cop on the other side watched helplessly) was a miracle that can only be explained by the presence of God lifting me up. It was truly a life changing experience. A woman not 2 miles downstream from me drowned that night when her husband could no longer hold on to her.

Interesting thing about the simplicity of VWs of that era. My brother, a mechanic, dried it out and cleaned out the engine and gas tank. The car started right up after the cleaning. I drove it for another 2 years then sold it for the same amount I had bought it for 6 years earlier.

Another interesting thing - my purse, with a ring belonging to my Mom in it, was in the car. It was washed out and lost. Some guy, walking the creek a couple of weeks later, recovered my purse from the tree. Yep, my Mom's ring was still in the purse though everything else in it was lost.

That bridge was raised by probably 10' within a year or so. No way the water can go over the bridge these days.

[BigTex]

But . . . but . . . but . . . Jade Helm . . .