(08-28-2017 10:10 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 10:09 AM)PlainTiger Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 09:03 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 08:53 PM)PlainTiger Wrote:  This is really getting bad. I used to drive through the Addicks reservoir on my way to work every day, down Eldridge Road. It's hard to imagine that it's full, wow!

After Alicia, it was full for about 6 weeks and that road was closed.

I lived there from 1991-2000, and I never saw it cover Eldridge. I know it covered Highway 6 for about a week one time.

Maybe it was Highway 6. It was one of those roads crossing the reservoir.

Alicia was before my time. Maybe 1980? I bet you are thinking of Allison, which was in 2001. That was after my time. It may have covered Eldridge that time, I don't know.

(08-28-2017 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 12:51 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  I'm still dry. But man, oh man, earlier tonight was a bit scary. The worst of the rain came in about 9pm. Must have gotten 4 inches in an hour. The water rose 4 feet in less than 30 minutes. Probably just street flooding. Stopped right at the door. Then the rain suddenly stopped and the water went away.

Hope you stay dry, but sounds like its time to make sure you have a bag packed with irreplaceables so you don't have to do it at the last second. (in the old days-like 10 years ago-you would want pictures as well as documents-now I guess you can copy it all on a thumb drive).

The scary part of it is this....I'm literally at the highest point inside loop 610 (my house is 72 feet above msn).

My Bayou has receded, and is back in its banks. If we don't get another 20 inches of rain today, I *might* be okay. I'm staying unless it gets dire. My next door neighbors are 88, 83, and 92 years old and live alone. If I have to jet, its going to be a real mess for my neighbors. We have a house with a second story to move to.

My Go Pack has - insurance info, a passport, my medications, and cash and wallet. I have an air mattress an axe and a hammer. Also a life jacket and some food and water (in a small icechest).

Even though I'm out of the 500 year flood plain, I have flood insurance.

(08-28-2017 10:56 AM)PlainTiger Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 10:10 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 10:09 AM)PlainTiger Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 09:03 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 08:53 PM)PlainTiger Wrote:  This is really getting bad. I used to drive through the Addicks reservoir on my way to work every day, down Eldridge Road. It's hard to imagine that it's full, wow!

After Alicia, it was full for about 6 weeks and that road was closed.

I lived there from 1991-2000, and I never saw it cover Eldridge. I know it covered Highway 6 for about a week one time.

Maybe it was Highway 6. It was one of those roads crossing the reservoir.

Alicia was before my time. Maybe 1980? I bet you are thinking of Allison, which was in 2001. That was after my time. It may have covered Eldridge that time, I don't know.

Get those two names confused. Alicia was 1983. I was thinking of Allison. Not sure which or both, but roads were closed through there.

(08-28-2017 11:03 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 12:51 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  I'm still dry. But man, oh man, earlier tonight was a bit scary. The worst of the rain came in about 9pm. Must have gotten 4 inches in an hour. The water rose 4 feet in less than 30 minutes. Probably just street flooding. Stopped right at the door. Then the rain suddenly stopped and the water went away.

Hope you stay dry, but sounds like its time to make sure you have a bag packed with irreplaceables so you don't have to do it at the last second. (in the old days-like 10 years ago-you would want pictures as well as documents-now I guess you can copy it all on a thumb drive).

The scary part of it is this....I'm literally at the highest point inside loop 610 (my house is 72 feet above msn).

My Bayou has receded, and is back in its banks. If we don't get another 20 inches of rain today, I *might* be okay. I'm staying unless it gets dire. My next door neighbors are 88, 83, and 92 years old and live alone. If I have to jet, its going to be a real mess for my neighbors. We have a house with a second story to move to.

My Go Pack has - insurance info, a passport, my medications, and cash and wallet. I have an air mattress an axe and a hammer. Also a life jacket and some food and water (in a small icechest).

Even though I'm out of the 500 year flood plain, I have flood insurance.

Don't know how your street is (still a number of streets without curbs or gutters), but it may be useful to wade out in boots and made sure the drains, if any, in the street are clear of debris. They get clogged and you can get unneeded backup.

(08-28-2017 11:16 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 11:03 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 12:51 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  I'm still dry. But man, oh man, earlier tonight was a bit scary. The worst of the rain came in about 9pm. Must have gotten 4 inches in an hour. The water rose 4 feet in less than 30 minutes. Probably just street flooding. Stopped right at the door. Then the rain suddenly stopped and the water went away.

Hope you stay dry, but sounds like its time to make sure you have a bag packed with irreplaceables so you don't have to do it at the last second. (in the old days-like 10 years ago-you would want pictures as well as documents-now I guess you can copy it all on a thumb drive).

The scary part of it is this....I'm literally at the highest point inside loop 610 (my house is 72 feet above msn).

My Bayou has receded, and is back in its banks. If we don't get another 20 inches of rain today, I *might* be okay. I'm staying unless it gets dire. My next door neighbors are 88, 83, and 92 years old and live alone. If I have to jet, its going to be a real mess for my neighbors. We have a house with a second story to move to.

My Go Pack has - insurance info, a passport, my medications, and cash and wallet. I have an air mattress an axe and a hammer. Also a life jacket and some food and water (in a small icechest).

Even though I'm out of the 500 year flood plain, I have flood insurance.

Don't know how your street is (still a number of streets without curbs or gutters), but it may be useful to wade out in boots and made sure the drains, if any, in the street are clear of debris. They get clogged and you can get unneeded backup.

I've been doing that the last 3 days. We have curbs and sewers.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/...item-38488

This article from 2015 talks about historic Texas floods. Has a list of 56 photos. Allison in 2001 had 40" in 6 days (slide 48). The 1979 flooding was 43" in 2 days. Slides 34 and 35 show Alvin underwater.

I couldn't readily find it but was looking for info on a flood in the 1820s. Floodwaters from the lower Brazos and lower Colorado merged. That is a distance of 25-30 miles.

(08-28-2017 11:03 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 12:51 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  I'm still dry. But man, oh man, earlier tonight was a bit scary. The worst of the rain came in about 9pm. Must have gotten 4 inches in an hour. The water rose 4 feet in less than 30 minutes. Probably just street flooding. Stopped right at the door. Then the rain suddenly stopped and the water went away.

Hope you stay dry, but sounds like its time to make sure you have a bag packed with irreplaceables so you don't have to do it at the last second. (in the old days-like 10 years ago-you would want pictures as well as documents-now I guess you can copy it all on a thumb drive).

The scary part of it is this....I'm literally at the highest point inside loop 610 (my house is 72 feet above msn).

My Bayou has receded, and is back in its banks. If we don't get another 20 inches of rain today, I *might* be okay. I'm staying unless it gets dire. My next door neighbors are 88, 83, and 92 years old and live alone. If I have to jet, its going to be a real mess for my neighbors. We have a house with a second story to move to.

My Go Pack has - insurance info, a passport, my medications, and cash and wallet. I have an air mattress an axe and a hammer. Also a life jacket and some food and water (in a small icechest).

Even though I'm out of the 500 year flood plain, I have flood insurance.

You sound well prepared. Hang in there. Thanks for staying to keep an eye on your neighbors welfare. Stay dry.

Beaumont is having people being rescued from flood waters as well. Texas needs help because Houston is not the only hard hit city right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT8uuH_9t6s
Drone video of the downtown area. Looks like its worse than Allison 2001.

As David says, other areas are being hit. Rockport took the brunt of the winds. When Katrina hit, all the focus was on New Orleans, but Mississippi got devasted as well.

Did anyone get up and go to work (there regular job) today in the Houston area? Is there any normalcy at all? Millions of people's lives are just stopped. This has to be a big economic hit in productivity.

(08-28-2017 02:02 PM)hoopfan Wrote:  Did anyone get up and go to work (there regular job) today in the Houston area? Is there any normalcy at all? Millions of people's lives are just stopped. This has to be a big economic hit in productivity.

Other than the National Guard, Police and public safety people and media personnel, no.

Suspect this whole week Houston will be shut down. Hurricane Alicia shut down downtown Houston for several days. It came ashore on a Thursday and downtown was blocked off all weekend, possibly into the next week as well.

Things getting worse. Ft. Bend County around the Brazos River is under mandatory evacuation. So is Dickinson in the southeast in Galveston County.

So far with my family, one sister from Friendswood is in a shelter and has lost cars and has several feet of water in her home. A nephew has water in his house and is staying with friends. A niece has a partially flooded parking lot in her apartment complex where most cars are ok for now, but some have water in the vehicle. And my parents have just called for evacuation in Pearland as water is starting to slip under the doors into their house. Its come up about 3 feet since yesterday and has to be at least 4 feet in the street.

Well my parents made it safe to a shelter. But weren't sure where! And my Mother's battery was nearly dead and she didn't have her charger and my Father waded in waist deep water with his phone and charger in his pocket. But we think we know which one. There are probably only about 5 possibilities. One sister has a dry house but my other sister and parents are in shelters on the other side of I-45 which is a lake at this point. So they will probably be there for a couple days.

(08-28-2017 11:40 PM)bullet Wrote:  Well my parents made it safe to a shelter. But weren't sure where! And my Mother's battery was nearly dead and she didn't have her charger and my Father waded in waist deep water with his phone and charger in his pocket. But we think we know which one. There are probably only about 5 possibilities. One sister has a dry house but my other sister and parents are in shelters on the other side of I-45 which is a lake at this point. So they will probably be there for a couple days.

Let us know which one, if you can find out. My area is pretty dry and the Trotter Family YMCA, which is down the road just opened up as a shelter. I am going to go out and volunteer tomorrow, maybe I can see if I can locate them.


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(08-28-2017 11:03 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 10:52 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 12:51 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  I'm still dry. But man, oh man, earlier tonight was a bit scary. The worst of the rain came in about 9pm. Must have gotten 4 inches in an hour. The water rose 4 feet in less than 30 minutes. Probably just street flooding. Stopped right at the door. Then the rain suddenly stopped and the water went away.

Hope you stay dry, but sounds like its time to make sure you have a bag packed with irreplaceables so you don't have to do it at the last second. (in the old days-like 10 years ago-you would want pictures as well as documents-now I guess you can copy it all on a thumb drive).

The scary part of it is this....I'm literally at the highest point inside loop 610 (my house is 72 feet above msn).

My Bayou has receded, and is back in its banks. If we don't get another 20 inches of rain today, I *might* be okay. I'm staying unless it gets dire. My next door neighbors are 88, 83, and 92 years old and live alone. If I have to jet, its going to be a real mess for my neighbors. We have a house with a second story to move to.

My Go Pack has - insurance info, a passport, my medications, and cash and wallet. I have an air mattress an axe and a hammer. Also a life jacket and some food and water (in a small icechest).

Even though I'm out of the 500 year flood plain, I have flood insurance.

Good grief. Best of luck.

If you can, take a flashlight, signal light, and matches or a lighter, preferably waterproof if available. And of course water. Don't bail to anywhere without water if you can.

Stay safe.

(08-28-2017 11:44 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 11:40 PM)bullet Wrote:  Well my parents made it safe to a shelter. But weren't sure where! And my Mother's battery was nearly dead and she didn't have her charger and my Father waded in waist deep water with his phone and charger in his pocket. But we think we know which one. There are probably only about 5 possibilities. One sister has a dry house but my other sister and parents are in shelters on the other side of I-45 which is a lake at this point. So they will probably be there for a couple days.

Let us know which one, if you can find out. My area is pretty dry and the Trotter Family YMCA, which is down the road just opened up as a shelter. I am going to go out and volunteer tomorrow, maybe I can see if I can locate them.


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Thanks but they're on the other end of town somewhere in the Pearland/Friendswood area. They're in their upper 80s and I think they probably didn't take everything they should. Kind of hard for anyone to do it in that situation. I don't think any of us expected their house to get flooded, although we were pretty sure their roads would be impassable. Just hope they remembered their meds. One sister was going to try to walk through it with them, but I don't think she got through before they got picked up. My Mother only remembered one pair of shoes and got them soaked. Not good since she just had foot surgery last week.

Just praying the storm finally goes somewhere else. Inland so it doesn't strengthen again.

Maybe your boy Osteen will open up his former arena

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(08-29-2017 06:02 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Maybe your boy Osteen will open up his former arena

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I'm not a fan of his by any means, but I heard a day before everyone started attacking him that the church was flooded. Knowing the old Summit, it probably was flooded early and often. Sounds like Lakewood Derangement Syndrome.

Stay safe Tom, bullet, UTSA, David, and any others in the Texas gulf coast area!

(08-29-2017 06:02 AM)fsquid Wrote:  Maybe your boy Osteen will open up his former arena

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He's a wolf in sheep's clothing.