That's a lot of water!

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/07/mexico-evacuates-tens-thousands-texans-leave-homes-flooding-hits-rio-grande/

Wow, you're not kidding.  Thats a crazy amount of water.  Stories like that make me glad that I live down here in southern Florida.  Floods like that never happen.  I can deal with the odd hurricane once in a while, I'd hate to have to up and leave because a river is spilling over.

Yup, lots of water, Amistad Lake hasn 't had that water level since the mid 70 's, all the Rio Grande basin, ( from El Paso all the way down to Brownsville ) is on alert , not only because of Amistad, there are at least a couple of large lakes in Mexico that discharge their waters to the Rio Grande on the Reynosa/MacAllen area ( Marte R Gomez aka Sugar Lake and El Cuchillo ) which directly affect the area down below ( Matamoros/Brownsville ), the CNA has already opened the gates on those two.

I called my friends Roberto and Demetrio to see how he they were doing ( both live in MacAllen ) and both said that so far everything is fine,