On Saturday May 23 and Sunday May 24 the Blanco River Crest at a record flood levels. Sunday morning the river crested at 43 ft., 30 ft over flood stage. At that time the flow rate of the river was 223,000 cubic feet per second - 2.5 times the flow rate of Niagra Falls.
Assessments are still being done on homes damaged, but we were told yesterday that over 1,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged in the Wimberly, San Marcos area.
In Discussions with Mark Minick with Upbring we were made aware of an immediate need for Flood Buckets in the area. We Recieved the request for buckets at about 2:00 PM on Tuesday. By
5:00 the trailer loaded with about 300 buckets was hitched up and Dan Cowan and I were pulling out for San Marcos. We spent the night in Temple were Chad and Kayla Winkler put us up for the night. We pulled up to the Volunteer Center at San Marcos by 10:30. A wonderful group of volunteers from Americorp help use unload the buckets. The buckets were to be taken out and distributed to families who had received flood damage, After unloading the trailer Dan and I arrived back in the Metroplex at about 4:30. It was a quick turn around, but it is nice to know that we can meet these types of needs in less than 24 hrs.times
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