Tuesday, June 26, 2007
White Rock Creek may flood early Wednesday morning
If it does, raft on over to your nearest wifi cafe and spend the day with Pegasus News.
DALLAS — The National Weather Service is issuing a flood warning for White Rock Creek until Wednesday afternoon, with the creek rising so high, it could force evacuations in the Lake Highlands area. Flood height is 84.0 feet and it was at 88.33 feet on Tuesday at 8 p.m.
As Fox 4 puts it so well, "hundreds of homes in northeast Dallas, Lake Highlands, Lakewood, and White Rock could be in jeopardy."
What Fox 4 fails to mention that it should have is that viewers might want to charge up their laptops, place them into waterproof bags, and take them to higher ground so that they can get updates from Pegasus News on how badly their houses are getting drenched.
Posted by T.G.
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John Meyer, says:
Well, according to this incident report on <a href="http://www.traffic.com/Dallas-Traffic/Dallas-Traffic-Map.html">Traffic.com</a>, NW Hwy w. of Flag Pole Hill has finally flooded out:
"Northwest Hwy westbound between Buckner Blvd and Lawther Dr - flooding - all lanes closed due to high water."
No mention of the eastbound situation, but I'm guessing that the lanes are closed in that direction too (since the street level is the same going in both directions).
Frankly, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner during this wet spell.
I live in (Old) Lake Highlands; my neighborhood is fine; and I don't see a stream of refugees floating by out front, so perhaps the Fox 4 folk were worrying about lower-lying properties in the neighborhood.
Rain gauge out back shows 3.5 inches (over about the last 36 hours).
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Mike Orren, says:
Glad you posted this John. That's my route to the office.
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John Meyer, says:
Mike - go north on Audelia and take Royal west. Works great.
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noleman, says:
can we get some pictures of the spillway?
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Mike Orren, says:
Here's a goodun:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/utaballe...
Anyone else who has some, send 'em and we'll post: http://dropbox.yousendit.com/pegasusnews
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John Meyer, says:
noleman, you can have a look at some video of the spillway action <a href="http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2007/jun/28/video-coverage-white-rock-lake-spillway/">here</a>:
Since you asked nicely and all...
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