Field notes from Central Texas rivers, from people who run them. What the water did, what it means, and what the gauges were saying while it happened.
One wave crossed the upper Guadalupe in a day: 40,400 cfs at Hunt before dawn, 200,000 at Comfort by mid-morning, and something different at every town it reached. We followed it gauge by gauge, and kept every forecast the Weather Service issued as the river erased the last.
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Every flood we’ve recorded on the upper Guadalupe, captured live, gauge by gauge, including every forecast the Weather Service issued while the water was moving. The federal services only keep the current picture; this is the only place the whole event stays.