I posted some images earlier and wil post some more from our drive around yesterday. I’m in the local Ham club here, and monitoring the effort. Pretty sudden, and caught many inside their campers along the river’s edge. 14 Rv’s washed away in one park alone. The first two Images are after and before, same spot.The entire park was all assembled for a huge concert and fireworks show. The Entire park venue was scrubbed by the waters, not a single fixture remaining, and the stage was pushed and mangled downstream into the trees. Some cypresses were de-barked as much as 15 ft above current level of water at the time we took the photos, so it had gone down already by 0930.
Our radio Shack is pretty close to the river, so we didn’t staff it during the high water period, as egress from the area, is iffy. Google maps, on satellite view gives you an idea of where things are. Flat Rock. Park was totally under water, all of the lower part of. Shriner Park was covered, The hwy 16 bridge which is about 50 ft, high, had water up to 4 ft from the bridge bottom. Fernando Lemos bridge was under water, and the veteran Loop bridge was about 4 ft from the water. The concert stage was. Crumpled like a beer can, and pushed into the trees downstream.
And the kids? Unknown. Campers? Unknown. Entire families suddenly gone. People in cars who tried to escape, trapped and screaming as they floated downstream. The kid in the tree, went over 15 miles, and tumbled over 5 dams.The hydraulics at the dams were like a rock tumbler, churning logs and tires, and debris over and over.
