Harvey

wow that is crazy, stay safe man and all our other TX family.
 
amflud said:
Yikes. I'm not far from you. I'm in League City on League City Parkway just off I-45. So far we've gotten about 27" where I'm at. We stayed dry but most of my neighbors didn't. They didn't get it bad, though. Lots of stranded vehicles. One joker got his truck stuck in one of our neighborhood fountain ponds because it was hidden under the flood waters he was trying to go around. He's going to need to hire a crane to get it out.

Good on you for helping out your neighbors.
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Yikes. I'm not sure how much we got a little north of you. Probably very similar. Bay Area and 528 here. What a mess.
 
Are you right there where they've been doing all that road work on Bay Area for what seems like months?
 
A canoe, or couple of pirouges or kayaks are good to have around. Stay safe!

Remember, if you can't see the road, don't drive through it!
 
Maybe Houston just needs to start advertising that it's the Venice of Texas.

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Too soon?

Stay safe.

(Please pardon the gallows humor. Mr. & Mrs. Texican have a house in Houston right behind the flooded KHOU building. If Buffalo Bayou goes up another few feet (and it might, as the rain continues), our living room's going to look like Piazza San Marco at high tide in November.)
 
I paid for my ex wife and son to evacuate they live in cypress tx. I have to ask what made you stay? Not judging just asking all in all I truly hope you and yours are safe
 
For me, there wasn't even a voluntary evacuation announced in my area. The nearby Clear Creek reached an unexpected 500 year mark (a weird calculator they used that says it reached a level that there was a 0.2% chance it would reach).
 
Before landfall all of the models had the storm going in all different directions once it hit land. There was no pattern. It could've gone anywhere. Could you imagine if all of Texas east of Corpus evacuated? There wasn't even a guarantee it would go east.
 
Agian I wasn't being mean just asking I was in FL Kissimmee for the 3 back to back and we didn't evacuate due to stubbornness and paid for it. No gas for weeks electricity out for a couple weeks. Thank god I had a dozen cases of mres stashed in the garage and tons of fire wood. To everybody out there stay safe and dry
 
Yeah, I don't think anyone evacuated here.

I was the stubborn one on my street during Ike. I was the only one still home on my street. I made that decision after watching all of the looting during Katrina just a month prior and the eye of the storm was tracking just east of my area.
 
Thanks for the well wishes. I kind of flew off the handle as I typed. Sorry about that. I have sand everywhere and I think I'm making a pearl.
 
I'm from a little south of brenham, and I was over there standing by for rescue, which is usually just taking the big fire truck and pulling cars out since we really dont have the training or the equipment. Classes at A&M were supposed to start tommorow, but now they have decided to cancel monday and tuesday, but most, if not all of the roads that I use to get home are closed. College station it is. Turn around, dont drown.
 
I flew in from PR 2 days before it hit to pick up my car to ship it over.

Such is my luck that I live on an island in the Caribbean and haven't seen a hurricane and I fly home to get my car and bam!!! My folks were getting a lot of rain but are about 120 miles from Houston so they only got about 8" of rain.

So I just decided to haul ass around it and booked it up to Northern Louisiana, the. Cut down through Mississippi and Alabama to Florida. Good thing I left when I did or I never would of got my car out!

Be safe all you guys that are still there
 
The really strange part to me is that the center of the storm never got within 100 miles of Houston, and places like Victoria that were pretty much directly in the path of the storm's center didn't get nearly the rain that Houston did. Even Beaumont, which is another hundred miles away, got way more rain than some of the areas the center of the storm hovered over for a couple days.
 
Best of luck to those down in the weather. Stay safe, keep your chin up and wits about you. No point in doing something risky when Mother Nature is having one of her tantrums.

Up in NJ we were hit hard not too long ago with Sandy, so I feel for you.
 
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