We are ok, and I think we will be fine in the future.
There is some blue sky showing up in Houston. That feels nice!
Yeah happy to see that. Barkers and addicks still concerning me.
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There is some blue sky showing up in Houston. That feels nice!
Maybe on the west side of Houston.
By tomorrow AM we hope the freeways will have cleared enough that I can drive my FIL from here in Baytown to his house in Rockport. A neighbor returned to his neighborhood today and informed us that the house was undamaged(at least visibly from the road). We will assess any damage and pick up some clothing and other essentials for my in-laws, and then return for their expected 30-40 day stay with us in Baytown.
Wish us luck on a two-hundred-thirty mile debris-strewn drive!
Good luck bayaker.
Looks like buffalo bayou is going to rise by a foot in our area, so going to be really close. But we are light years better off than others in all of this, so no griping from me.
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I have a few family members native to Houston and just heard that all is OK for them–their neighborhood had water briefly coming up over the curb but then it receded, and the lights are still on. They are southwest of Downtown.
It’s over in my part of Houston. We actually had blue skies and sunshine this afternoon.
The classic definition of an adventure is: while you’re having it, you wish you weren’t. Harvey was (and still is) a capital-A Adventure.
Looks like Louisiana is in for some Harvey action. Hopefully nowhere near as bad.
My home and my mother-in-law’s home are in Fort Bend county, and my wife and I work in southwest Houston. Our rain gauge measured 49" of water (possibly more because we failed to empty it during the most intense rain so an unknown amount overflowed).
The water came up over our curb and sidewalk to put our mailbox post 4" deep. A tornado shredded the exterior of a building at the corner of my neighborhood. But no water inside the house, and only a bit of roof leakage where I work. No idea yet if rocknrhodes’s workplace is damaged, but she’s got the sort of job that will still be around if her facility is damaged so we’re not too nervous.
My family had an hour of terror trying to get home after visiting rocknrhodes’s aunt at a hotel 8:30 pm Saturday. We abandoned one vehicle at the hotel. We had to make several detours around flooded roads and take a circuitous route toward our neighborhood. Then all the entrances to our neighborhood were underwater. We parked the minivan at the highest point in a parking lot and SHOULD have just spent the night in the van (with 3 uncomfortable brats, it barely seemed like an option at the time). Instead, we got out and walked the last 0.8 miles! We didn’t know how deep the water would be and didn’t want the kids getting sucked into a storm drain, so we walked along the raised bank of a canal for most of the journey. I had a flashlight and was scanning the ground for snakes and gators, but everyone else saw a bright orange flash in the direction of the aforementioned fugging TORNADO.
On Sunday morning I repaired a neighbor’s leaky roof. The next few nights were sleepless as we watched the news, first re: tornadoes and then re: possible levee failures along the Brazos river. My home is just outside the levee districts and my mother-in-law lives in an RV on high ground right next to the river.
My 86-year-old coworker was rescued from his home by boat. His vehicles are destroyed.
Today is sunny and it looks like the excitement is over, at least in the Houston area.
Thanks for posting Rhodes. Glad to hear you made it through this safe and relatively sound. Best wishes on the recovery.
Fortunately not. This is a tort reform law having to do with lawsuits against insurance companies, not claims.
And they’re going after the price gougers:
One hotel in Robstown lost it’s corporate affiliation for nearly tripling it’s advertised price.
What I meant was that those w/ a claim who don’t file it by September 1st could be penalized simply by the enacting of the new legislation.
Well the water was up to the kerb so we bailed to some friends in the woodlands. I used our canoe to shuttle ourselves and a few other families out the neighborhood . We had parked the car out the neighborhood on the higher ground. I also paddled a few people back to their houses along the bayou on Terry Hershey park. They had water 1/2 way up the front doors and the went in through stairways on the outside to the second floor to see how things were inside.
Not pretty.
Seams like we were spared the water rose to the door but has receeded a little .
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Beumont has NO WATER.
Not a boil water alert. As in the water pumps got flooded and there is NO WATER.
Budweiser better keep cranking out those cans of water instead of beer.