Flooding In Texas

[Ken Massingale]

All you guys in south Texas o.k.?

[mdutch]

Well you posted this at 6AM today. I'd say the lack of response should be of concern...

Seriously, I hope everyone escapes without serious damage. Remember, in a pinch, wood floats!

[kwgeorge]

Don’t know about the guys up north like Jim and Loring but down south it was just a bit nasty. We did not get the flooding you see on TV as that was about 20 miles or so north of me.

Ken

[LCHIEN]

we got some mildly heavy rain but in my neck of the woods we were in no danger of flooding.

I don't mean to minimize what happened to the ones who did get flooded
but when I see these things on the news they report heavy rain in one area and show shot after shot of the .1% of the homes that got flooded leading you to believe that in some large central area 100% flooding ocurred.

What happened in Houston is we got some heavy localized, non-moving rain storms that dropped 10" per hour 20"/2 hours on small areas that flooded simply because no storm system can handle that runoff. Terrible for the people that got flooded, inconvenient for the people who got delayed in traffic and back to normal for the rest of us.

Thanks for the concern, though.

A lot of roads were under water for a couple of hours and that caused airport shutdowns as traffic snarled. I think the flooded areas receded in a matter of 2-3 hours once the rain stopped.

[Jim Boyd]

Just made the grass grow here. And people not want to go car shopping

[mac_daddy]

Mostly downtown, east side

Most of the news reporting showed downtown and the regular spots flooded. Not too much to figure out that most of news footage was flooded out cars.

[Jeffrey Schronce]

Just made the grass grow here. And people not want to go car shopping

Wait until those people get their claims checks for their flooded cars. Just be sure to check those trade ins carefully! LOL!