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Post by tracyarts on Aug 27, 2017 8:02:54 GMT
So, we ended up with water in the garage, water up to the front door, water being held back by my makeshift potting soil sandbags at the back door, and water coming into a spare back bedroom through the exterior wall weep holes. No standing water in the house so far, just some seepage we were able to take care of with old towels and blankets. After the rain let up, the water receded a few feet before this new band of rain started. Hoping it receded enough to not flood worse as this smaller band of rain passes over.
Then the plan is rest a bit, and finish speed packing everything that's a priority to save and put it up higher. We needed to spend this weekend packing anyway, but I didn't want to do it like this.
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Post by yivit on Aug 27, 2017 8:33:35 GMT
Update from the SE side (Fuqua between I-45 and Hwy 3 for those familiar with the area): We were fine until around 10pm. Power flickered, then went out (but only for a couple of minutes). We've been right under the reddest part of the band hitting the east side of Houston. Went from soggy yard to it halfway up the yard to coming within less than an inch of coming into the house. At the halfway-up-yard point, moved son's just-bought-2-weeks-ago truck up between driveway (where his wrecked truck is) and front door, and pulled my car up next to it as close to house as I could. When water started going into the garage and making its way into my huge laundry room (think the size of a bedroom), we pulled everything off the bottom shelves in laundry room, moved all the clothes hanging on my rolling racks from the bottom tier to the top tier, unplugged the washer and dryer, and turned off the AC (since the outside unit was soon to have water rising on it). Son (who came here to ride things out Friday after work) made makeshift dam on front door threshold with landscape timber and pool noodle. The last break we had allowed the water to drop from within an inch of coming in to only about an inch high in both garage and at front door. We just had another round of rain, but almost 'normal' rain not monsoon rain, and it just slacked off again. Daughter is in Katy (Cinco Ranch area) and they're okay. She has her car parked where she works, which is high. Her fiance had to leave his car parked in the median less than a mile from their apartment earlier in the evening because the street their apartments are on was impassable. They talked to the family in the house by where they parked, gave them their numbers and asked them to call when the water receded some or if anyone came by trying to tow. About an hour later, they got a call - some vulture wreckers were camped out waiting for the water to recede enough for them to easily grab the cars. Homeowner's daughter went out and stopped them from towing the car, and DD's DF rushed down to get it. Whew. Their apartment is fine, and the parking lot at the apartment is amazingly draining well. Her work had some water in it (but not bad) so they closed early today, and will probably be doing cleanup in the morning. My old stomping grounds (city of South Houston) I believe has the majority of homes either surrounded by water or water in the homes. My next door neighbor grew up in the house she's in, and we were talking earlier in the week about the highest water's gotten here. Before today, it had only gotten up to the bushes right in front of her porch. Today, she has some water in her dining room (former garage). I called her when we moved our vehicles because she had her car parked behind her daughter's car (that was parked over here because it always floods where she lives) and the water was coming up, so I let her know she should probably move it. It's a good thing because she would have probably had water in the back seat if it had stayed at the end of her driveway (she has a 2-car-wide driveway and had left one side clear in case someone needed to use it to get their car out of the water). At least I have a kayak, inflatable dinghy and kneeboard in the garage! PS - Just checked garage before hitting 'post' - down to maybe 1/4" and parts of laundry room are just damp. Yay! Might make it to daylight without getting it in the house after all. ETA: My friend at the other end of the street from me has water in her house, 7" last I saw. She just posted a video of a freaking TADPOLE swimming around in her room.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 9:16:14 GMT
Stay safe everyone, thinking about you all. Can't imagine how frightening this is for you.
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Post by wellway on Aug 27, 2017 9:26:16 GMT
yivit thank you for sharing your story, I hope that is the sum total of your experience.((hugs)) Isn't awful that some people want to add to other peoples' troubles by taking their means of transport? Can you explain the term vulture wreckers? Are they thieves or people who move illegally parked cars?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 9:27:01 GMT
Winds in Hays County are getting bad. They are keeping most of the entire neighborhood up. The wind just won't stop. Onion Creek (near downtown) in Buda is about to hit flood stage. We are hanging in there but Caldwell and Fayette counties (to the east) are getting the majority of the rains (12-16 inches in the past 24 hours) and the Colorado River is starting to get close to flood stage in many areas. Hays County is sitting between 6 to 9 inches the past 24 hours. Below are the local rain totals as of the past 24 hours (Sat 8/26 @4:30AM Central - to - Sun 8/27 @4:30AM Central)
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Post by yivit on Aug 27, 2017 9:39:59 GMT
yivit thank you for sharing your story, I hope that is the sum total of your experience.((hugs)) Isn't awful that some people want to add to other peoples' troubles by taking their means of transport? Can you explain the term vulture wreckers? Are they thieves or people who move illegally parked cars? Vulture wreckers - the lowlife scum with a towing license who sit waiting for "easy money". DD's DF even talked to an officer who happened to be there when they left the vehicle, telling him that it was operable, just couldn't get it any further and he would be back as soon as the water went down a little. I'm hoping that he got that officer's card or badge number so he can report the buttmunch who was towing cars. As bad or worse than the price gougers IMO. Oh, and we are in store for this for the next few days, with tornadoes through at least tomorrow.
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Post by tracyarts on Aug 27, 2017 9:45:34 GMT
No standing water in the house yet. But I'm not confident it won't happen before this is all over. 14 inches of rain so far in my neighborhood. Lots of flooding here in Deer Park. Neighborhoods that never flooded are flooding. We're not even in the 500 year flood plain and got some water in the house. It's unprecedented.
And I am not as strong as I used to be. Having a brain injury took so much out of me. In the past, I'd be fearlessly leading the charge to deal with the situation. But this time? Anxiety is taking a toll.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Aug 27, 2017 9:49:21 GMT
My thoughts are with our TX peas.
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Post by leftturnonly on Aug 27, 2017 9:57:34 GMT
yivit thank you for sharing your story, I hope that is the sum total of your experience.((hugs)) Isn't awful that some people want to add to other peoples' troubles by taking their means of transport? Can you explain the term vulture wreckers? Are they thieves or people who move illegally parked cars? Vulture wreckers - the lowlife scum with a towing license who sit waiting for "easy money". DD's DF even talked to an officer who happened to be there when they left the vehicle, telling him that it was operable, just couldn't get it any further and he would be back as soon as the water went down a little. I'm hoping that he got that officer's card or badge number so he can report the buttmunch who was towing cars. As bad or worse than the price gougers IMO. Oh, and we are in store for this for the next few days, with tornadoes through at least tomorrow. When you have a vehicle towed in Houston, they take it to a lot where you have to pay (a lot!) to get it out. Plus, in this case, you'd have to pay the towing company. In this case, they could charge a higher rate because of the time of night on a weekend in terrible weather. It's all about making some easy $$$.
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Post by leftturnonly on Aug 27, 2017 9:58:54 GMT
Anxiety is taking a toll. {{{Hugs}}} Me too.
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Post by utmr on Aug 27, 2017 10:24:45 GMT
Ok so far but water in the back yard is the highest I've ever seen. Our side street was a river for a while about 9:00 last night but receded. We need a break soon.
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Post by yivit on Aug 27, 2017 10:45:09 GMT
This is a map of all the flood gauges in the county.
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Post by monklady123 on Aug 27, 2017 11:00:52 GMT
Yikes! I started reading this thread as I turned on CNN this morning. The thread began with some Houston Peas and CNN is showing how bad it is in Houston! Why do people try to drive through water? I don't get it. Especially after the emergency workers have said not to do it! Here, where we NEVER get floods like this, kids learn in drivers' ed "don't drown, turn around" if they see water and don't know how deep it is. I hope everyone is okay and that no one here lives in the part of Houston that's on the news. omg.
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Aug 27, 2017 11:20:29 GMT
No standing water in the house yet. But I'm not confident it won't happen before this is all over. 14 inches of rain so far in my neighborhood. Lots of flooding here in Deer Park. Neighborhoods that never flooded are flooding. We're not even in the 500 year flood plain and got some water in the house. It's unprecedented. And I am not as strong as I used to be. Having a brain injury took so much out of me. In the past, I'd be fearlessly leading the charge to deal with the situation. But this time? Anxiety is taking a toll. Thinking of you Tracy. I hope it doesn't get in the house.
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Post by leftturnonly on Aug 27, 2017 11:21:26 GMT
Yikes! I started reading this thread as I turned on CNN this morning. The thread began with some Houston Peas and CNN is showing how bad it is in Houston! Why do people try to drive through water? I don't get it. Especially after the emergency workers have said not to do it! Here, where we NEVER get floods like this, kids learn in drivers' ed "don't drown, turn around" if they see water and don't know how deep it is. I hope everyone is okay and that no one here lives in the part of Houston that's on the news. omg. 1) You have someone who needs medication to live. Insurance companies only pay after so many days between refills and that day might not come until it's really difficult to get out. Do you have any idea what insulin costs over the counter? Want to find out the hard way? 2) Last night, the message was clear: Stay inside and don't try to drive while there's flooding at night. Also, evacuate to higher ground if you are in low lying levels. Seems logical until you realize that your house is about to flood and it's the middle of the night. 3) Traffic. When a lot of people try to leave at one time, it's a horrific nightmare. People stay as long as they can and Houston roads flood incredibly fast. You may start out on a dry road and quickly find it flooded. 4) People are just people. They get stir-crazy and just want to get out.
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Post by anxiousmom on Aug 27, 2017 11:23:58 GMT
I'm sitting here watching the news and am horrified by the rain fall/flooding that they are showing. I live in Florida, hurricanes are a way of life (we build in hurricane days way the way snow days are built in school calendars up north.) I always worry about the wind damage, but the water damage is always the bigger threat because it lasts longer, is more unpredictable and causes more damage. I am sitting here praying like crazy for the safety of those in harms way and for those who are on the the rescue crews.
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Post by farmdpea on Aug 27, 2017 11:37:41 GMT
1) You have someone who needs medication to live. Insurance companies only pay after so many days between refills and that day might not come until it's really difficult to get out. Do you have any idea what insulin costs over the counter? Want to find out the hard way? Insurance companies often allow overrides during natural disaster. Even out of state in case of evacuation. Just so the peas know. Praying for you ladies!
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Post by keithurbanlovinpea on Aug 27, 2017 11:47:55 GMT
Wow this is some flooding of epic proportions. I follow this nerdy, level-headed weather guy and even his last update was pretty doom and gloom: spacecityweather.com/We are in Fort Bend County. We have had rain out the wazoo, but no flooding in our immediate area. Of course, we haven't seen any local streets so we most likely can't get out of our neighborhood, but not planning on going anywhere anyway. My heart hurts for all of those displaced, especially those you have flooded again. I have childhood friends who live in the area I grew up in who are flooding for the 3rd time.
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Post by mollycoddle on Aug 27, 2017 11:49:50 GMT
I'm sitting here watching the news and am horrified by the rain fall/flooding that they are showing. I live in Florida, hurricanes are a way of life (we build in hurricane days way the way snow days are built in school calendars up north.) I always worry about the wind damage, but the water damage is always the bigger threat because it lasts longer, is more unpredictable and causes more damage. I am sitting here praying like crazy for the safety of those in harms way and for those who are on the the rescue crews. Me too. I can't get it out of my mind. I've stooped to watching Fox because they have pretty good coverage of the hurricane.
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Post by smartypants71 on Aug 27, 2017 12:08:51 GMT
Checking in from the heights here. My street is still ok but the ditched are full and white oak is out of its banks. I'm about 2 blocks away from it and my house is pretty high up but I'm still very worried. Fortunately the only thing on my first floor is a bathroom and a study. Everything in my garage is in Rubbermaid containers so I'm not worried about that. Im going to start moving all my photos upstairs too.
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Post by katybee on Aug 27, 2017 12:30:20 GMT
I am in North Austin, and it has been raining nonstop for about 36 hours. But nothing life threatening. The ground is completely saturated and there are huge puddles everywhere. You cannot go outside without getting soaked. My big problem is that my dog refuses to walk in the rain. So I've been cleaning up pee pee puddles.
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Post by Sharon on Aug 27, 2017 12:53:43 GMT
Here in San Antonio, they were expecting us to get 20 inches of rain. I think we've maybe had 2 or 3. We seriously dodged a bullet. I hope that everyone in the path of the storms stays safe! I don't even think we've had much flooding. There hasn't been any around us.
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Post by jennyap on Aug 27, 2017 13:10:29 GMT
Thinking of you all, stay safe my friends.
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Post by mikklynn on Aug 27, 2017 13:16:50 GMT
I'm hoping everyone comes through will little damage. Stay safe!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 13:30:24 GMT
Pulling for you and hoping the rains move on and dissipate.
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Post by leftturnonly on Aug 27, 2017 13:30:29 GMT
1) You have someone who needs medication to live. Insurance companies only pay after so many days between refills and that day might not come until it's really difficult to get out. Do you have any idea what insulin costs over the counter? Want to find out the hard way? Insurance companies often allow overrides during natural disaster. Even out of state in case of evacuation. Just so the peas know. Praying for you ladies! That's true, but this is coming as a big surprise for a lot of people. They either didn't hear about it soon enough to get that all worked through, or they thought that they were in a high enough area. Just before the storm came ashore, I talked with someone in Houston who has lived in Houston for well over 20 years, who is usually very weather aware and had just been flooded 2 years ago; he hoped it wouldn't flood. Let's concede the point that everyone who needed medication got it ahead of time. And then their power went out. The medication spoils. They need to get out to get medical attention. The rain has stopped. The road is fairly dry. They start out and they find that although it's not raining at the moment, the bayous are still rising. The road they're on starts getting flooded and then BAM! There's no where for them to go. They can't go forward. They can't turn around because it's just as bad behind as in front. Don't forget that this is going to be ongoing for days yet to come. Stored food is eaten and what isn't eaten quickly may spoil quickly without refrigeration, especially if it gets wet. The only way to avoid getting stranded - either inside or outside - when an area is flooding on this scale is to have evacuated beforehand. To have evacuated beforehand would have meant that 5+ million people would have been trying to leave the Houston area near the same time. That's only Houston Harris County. That doesn't include anywhere further east that has been pounded constantly with the outer bands of Harvey. That doesn't include anywhere to the north west of Houston - like Austin and San Antonio - that are getting pounded with rain. I was along the coast for Rita. We were told sometime before daylight we had to evac. To the east was a disaster area from Katrina. To the south and west was a snarled mass of traffic that had been trying to evac. the Houston/Galveston area. Most people from my area had already started to head out. We were among the last because of my husband's job. The police were driving up and down our streets telling people through a bullhorn to leave or die. Big jumbo C5's were taking the last stragglers out of the area, as were the last public buses. It hadn't even started raining yet. We drove for 5 miles - not even out of the city limits - before we began passing cars that had pulled over to the side of the road because they had run out of gas. (But there were no people. They had been rescued already.) When we caught up with the traffic, it was indescribable. The temp was over 100 degrees and there was no place to get gas, or food, or pee. That wasn't a route the people of Houston were taking, since it was further east. It wasn't an evacuation of a million people, which is only 1/5 of the population of Houston Harris County, FWIW. This was probably several hundred thousand people trying to get out at once. Those who couldn't get further down the road were taken in where they stopped. Rita hit there, too. While they were safe from any storm surge, they weren't safe from the rain and the trees that fell. Just how far away is safety from this storm? Harvey now covers the US Gulf Coast all along Texas and into Louisiana. It hasn't moved and no one knows where it's going to go next. It can swing back out into the Gulf and become hurricane strength once more before again making landfall and all the while, it's pounding the coast. People are going to try to get out any way they can to get whatever help they can find.
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Post by leftturnonly on Aug 27, 2017 13:35:48 GMT
I am in North Austin, and it has been raining nonstop for about 36 hours. But nothing life threatening. The ground is completely saturated and there are huge puddles everywhere. I say this from experience - big trees lose their footing when ground becomes supersaturated and they just topple over. Trees uprooting are going to become a big problem for areas that are getting this constant rain. Try to be aware of what's around you.
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Post by iluvpink on Aug 27, 2017 13:47:32 GMT
This is horrible. I hope all the peas are safe and stay that way. I have a good friend who lives in the Cinco Ranch area of Katy and I'm very worried about her. So far her street is draining well but the way things are going she is very nervous and trying to stay calm for her kids. And her dad who also lives in the area lives in a neighborhood that does sometimes flood.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 13:58:29 GMT
If you can help, text RedCross to 90999 or give in other ways. It's going to take as many as possible to help.
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Post by GiantsFan on Aug 27, 2017 14:28:43 GMT
Thinking of everyone in the Harvey's path and the aftermath.
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