EAGLE MOUNTAIN LAKE — Take a walk in Frank and Janet Prochaska's rain boots, and you'll soon see the predicament they're in.
"We've got a little issue," Frank laughed.
Tuesday morning, the lake water that's surrounded their home for a week now on Eagle Mountain Lake started slowly seeping inside. Sandbags they spent all day layering outside their home are their last line of defense.
"We've done everything we can do, and just wait it out now," Frank said. "It'll start going down."
If anyone is watching water levels more closely than this family, it is the people inside the "war room" at the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD). The room and staffing has been in full swing since May 11.
"We have people here 24-7, monitoring, watching what's happening, the actual conditions, running models, running projections," said Rachel Ickert, director of water resource engineering.
"Right now, we're just within a couple of inches of being in the floor of several homes in Eagle Mountain," said David Marshall, director of engineering and operations support, of the water levels.
But Marshall believes the hard work and educated moves made by the people in this room have spared most people from bad flooding. They believe the lake could crest Tuesday, though the next 12-to-24 hours will be critical.
"I'm thinking within two days things will really slow down," Marshall said, yet he's still urging people who live on Eagle Mountain Lake, Lake Worth, and Lake Bridgeport not to let their guards down.
The Prochaskas say they know without the TRWD's strategy, the minor flooding they're seeing inside their home could've been major.
"As long as it doesn't get any worse, we're not going to complain," Frank said.
