Kayaking Down Kimball Road (With Bernie!)

After several weeks of heavy thunderstorms, the streets surrounding a local lake were flooded. We went kayaking down them with our dog Bernie.

Music: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ("Pathétique")

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[taleseh]

That's great - I live at Lakeview & Kimball and I love it when the end of the road floods, but there was nothing like that summer! Maybe it will flood again this summer!

[nrgins]

Cool that you found this video! (Was it because it had "Kimball Road" in the title?)

Was strange how they didn't open the dam to release the water for a long time, and it stayed flooded. I heard that it was because they were avoiding flooding the golf course. Do you know why they didn't open the dam afterwards, like they did at Lewisville, etc?

[taleseh]

They don't want to mess up everybody else downstream. I wanted to tell you that it is up at about the same height again. I drove down there today and was shocked that it had gone over the road and almost to the gate they close in such a short tine....time to pull out the kayaks for a part2~

[nrgins]

Well, when it flooded I was checking the Corps of Engineers web site, and for Lewisville and Lake Ray Roberts, they were releasing a lot of water. But for Grapevine, it was almost nothing.

Seems that it's all politics - golf courses take priority over residences.

As for part 2, it's a bit chilly now, don't you think? :-)

[taleseh]

aww, come on - a little cold water never hurt anybody....oh wait, perhaps it has. i'm always worried about bacteria that might be present when it floods, so i would be more worried about that myself.

and yah - i was amazed that our lake's drinking water is shipped to arlington, and we keep it clean, but we get somebody elses....politics suck!

[nrgins]

eh, bacteria's always there. so many millions of gallons of water there, I don't think it's a problem. I think it's more when the streets flood, that water is toxic. But here, a little flood water mixing with a lake - not a big deal, IMO.

I didn't know that about Arlington. Guess someone's gotta keep them Cowboys hydrated, right? ;-)

I do need to get out there. Would love to move to Grapevine. Love it there!

[taleseh]

Next summer I meant.

[MisterAndresen001]

*5 Stars* Haunting background music yet very moving and appropo.

[BattlefieldDoktor]

kayaking down the street ... this can't do everyone. Bernie is really a cute dog. Thanks for the tour!

[worm2glow]

the first thing I normally associate with texas is deserts... so thanks for clearing that out! ;-) That looked really weird! but Bernie's kinda cool!