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2. October 1998 Central Texas floods - Wikipedia

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   The October 1998 Texas Flooding was a flood event that occurred across parts of South Texas and Southeast Texas on the weekend of October 17 and October 18, 1998. The storm that caused it was one of the costliest in the recorded meteorological history of the United States, bringing rainfall of over 20 inches (510 mm) to some parts of Southeast Texas and causing over $ 1.19 billion in damages ...

3. Canyon Lake Gorge - Wikipedia

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   Part of Canyon Lake Gorge. Canyon Lake Gorge is a limestone gorge in Texas, which is around 1 mile (1.6 km) long, hundreds of yards (metres) wide, and up to 50 feet (15 m) or more deep, which was exposed in 2002 when extensive flooding of the Guadalupe River led to a huge amount of water going over the spillway from Canyon Lake reservoir and removing the sediment from the gorge.

4. Canyon Lake (Texas) - Wikipedia

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   Canyon Lake (Texas) 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Canyon Lake is a reservoir on the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country in the United States. Canyon Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir formed on the Guadalupe River in Comal County by Canyon Dam, which is located about sixteen miles northwest of New Braunfels.

5. Mandatory evacuations ordered in Texas after heavy rain and ...

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   Phil Helsel and Kathryn Prociv. May 3, 2024 at 10:05 AM. Mandatory evacuations were ordered in parts of Texas, and residents in Harris County, home to Houston, were told to be ready to stay put ...

6. Floods rage through fire-torn areas, forcing more evacuations

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   At approximately 3 p.m. Saturday, June 29, Ruidoso Emergency Management issued an evacuation notice for the Upper Canyon Area due to unstable soil and life-threatening floodwaters.

7. Siphon Fire: Evacuations ordered amid wildfire burning in ...

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   September 11, 2024 at 9:21 AM. PINAL COUNTY, Ariz. - Crews are responding to a wildfire burning in the East Valley. The Siphon Fire sparked on Sept. 10 in a remote area of the Superstition ...

8. Canyon Dam (Texas) - Wikipedia

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   Canyon Dam is located 36 miles (58 km) northeast of San Antonio and 38 miles (61 km) southwest of Austin. The dam is 6,830 feet (2,080 m) long, across a narrow section of the Guadalupe River valley. The top of the dam is 974 feet (297 m) above sea level, or 224 feet (68 m) above the riverbed. A spillway, located south of the dam, protects the ...

9. Blanco River (Texas) - Wikipedia

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   The Fischer Store Road bridge over the Blanco River west of Wimberley was destroyed by flood waters. The Blanco River, downstream from the bridge, at Wimberley reached a record crest. The gauge failed at 40 feet and the USGS later estimated the crest at 44.9 feet with peak flow of 175,000 cubic feet per second (5,000 m 3 /s).