Flash Flood Alley

It's set to swell to 16 feet overnight, 10 feet higher than it is right now.

But fortunately for so many people here in Flash Flood Alley, none of the rivers here are expected to cause significant flooding.

North of here in Nebraska, watch as this 18-wheeler careens out of control on rain-slicked roads, jackknifing on Interstate 80 in Omaha before crossing the traffic lanes once more.

And in Lincoln, Nebraska, some people forced to trudge through the floodwaters and push their vehicles out of the water.

Now, to put it in perspective, uh, we're in a drought, so the soil can soak up a good amount of that rain, but the soil is shallow here.

That's why they call it Flash Flood Alley.

We have all these hills.

It still can flood pretty quickly, even in a drought.

Uh, the aquifers, they need a lot more than what the weekend forecast this weekend is going to provide to recharge.

The soil, the grass, the vegetation This can put a huge dent in that drought pretty quick, especially if you're talking about multiple inches of rain in just a couple of days.

Uh, the problem with a lot of rain coming in a short period of time though is that it's flash flood alley.

Um, most of that rain hits the soil, can't soak up fast enough, so it's running off in creeks and streams, and then it's just going down into, uh, the waterways that eventually empty into the Gulf, and that's no good for us, right? But yes, to answer your question, we're very cautiously optimistic that this will be a big dent in, uh, the resurgence of extreme drought, which happened, um, to be issued last week for the City of Austin.

Wow.

The storm is also threatening some in the same area of South Texas known as Flash Flood Alley, which is still recovering from devastating floods in July.

It's

very important.

potentially deadly weather event that's just getting started.

It is concerning to see there.

If you see where the map of where the heaviest rainfall is predicted, it overlays almost perfectly on what we call Flash Flood Alley.

So the state of Texas is taking this very seriously, positioning almost 2,000 emergency personnel all across the state ready to respond to what may come.