I was watching the Weather Channel today and couldn’t believe the rain totals for the Houston area–5 to 6 inches an hour in some areas. I watched a segment where a TV crew is setting up for a shot when some guy drives into a flooded area and has to be told by the TV crew to get out of his car and swim to safety. The man seemed to be in shock and the reporter waded out into the water to help him. Are there any first person reports as to the situation there?
I’m on the west side of H and the flooding is not as bad, but the bayous are all close to overflow. More rain expected through Thursday night; check back Friday.
A good portion of the workforce wised up and stayed home today.
It is profoundly wet. No flooding of either my car or my home, thank God, but it was a near thing for either. I stayed home until the water in my parking lot subsided a little, then went on in. Had to divert around several low water closures. (Originally wrote “had to go around several low water closures”, and that’s not what I meant. When you do that, you end up drowning your car like that poor hapless old man who got “rescued” by the live TV reporter.)
It was a lot worse NW of town, I understand. We got about 8 inches or so in the Galleria area; NW Harris County had anywhere between 15-18, with one gauge recording over 20. That’s a lot of rain. Supposed to rain off and on for the next few days. Hope it doesn’t get as bad as it did this morning.
Harris County Flood Control Map. You can look at the bayou depth gauges there and see just how fast they rose this morning. At times some of them rose around 15 feet per hour or faster. Crazy.
Northern 'burbs here. It was a hellacious night, with heavy downpour for three or four hours without letup. No flooding on my street, but two blocks away, in a 1970s subdivision that has flooded in the past, some people had four feet of water in their homes. Damn shame, especially since this is at least the third time since TS Allison that they’ve gotten inundated.
Ken Ham is building his Ark in the wrong place. So much for Answers in Genesis. Did God tell him to build his Ark in Kentucky, only to open the sluices of heaven to pour his wrathful deluge on Texas?