They say the second movie is never as good as the first. With floods, that just ain’t so! We got a really hard rain in on Sunday. It lasted much longer than the usual 2 minute Texas rain. When the ranch manager came by to let the horses loose and told me to watch for flooding I took it seriously and kept an eye out. The rig had already moved on so I was alone waiting for the next phase to start. Unfortunately, an eye was not enough for a flash flood which occurred the next day long after the rain had stopped. Late in the day, the rocks I had admired out my kitchen window just half an hour earlier disappeared. I went outside to check and found water just starting to run underneath my trailer from behind. It was running very fast. I immediately began disconnecting all electrical and shut down the generator. I started pulling outside items to higher ground and saw the water begin coming in from the side as well. I knew I was in trouble.
I tried to call my support person for help but he was too far away to be able to help. I tried calling the ranch manager but got no answer. I drove my truck out of the water and up to the ranch manager’s gate but no one answered the page or honking horn. I tried waving down a trucker but he thought I was waving hello and just waved back and drove on. I was on my own and the water was rising fast. It was now across the road and coming from the other side too.
All I could do was pull all the cables in, move things inside to pull in the slide-out which had water on it that drained inside as I closed it, crank up the jacks, and hitch up my truck. That took a lot of precious time and I was trudging through deep water the whole time. The water got higher. My support person kept calling and checking on me to see how I was. The external sewer tank I was connected to started to float. I had to work at it to get disconnected from it since it was hard-plumbed to my outlets. Then it started to float off so I had to take time to pull it around the back of the RV to beach it. The water rose.
