It really has turned into quite a situation here. After an 18 inch rainfall on Sunday, we barely escaped flood by a few inches. Made it through another 16 inches of rain on Monday. Rianfall began to slow on Tuesday and thought we had turned the corner. Went to get fuel in cans to head down to Rockport to help my Sister with the storm mess down there and came back to the house to find trees toppled due to saturated soil at neighbors houses. Got out my chainsaw and as soon as I made the first cut 3 truckloads of guys were on scene with chainsaws to assist and cleaned up,and cleared trees in minutes!
While our streets were clear of flood water at the time, some of my neighbors got together and we went to the south side of memorial drive towed Buffalo Bayou to help others who were getting flooded. We had everything from big trucks, kyaks, rubber rafts, jet skis, and some really nice boats hauling people to dry ground. The coast guard was overhead in choppers pulling people out on a string.
After working on that all day we returned home in the afternoon to find that water was backing up in our storm drains and our street was beginning to flood even though there was no rain and the sky was clearing. Reports were that the water was to rise 3 feet. We all went into panic mode put up what we could and left as the flood waters got so high in the street we could barely make it out.
Got up early and went back to find that fortunately the water level only came up a little more over night. The morning news was still calling for an additional 3 feet so we parked at high ground waded in and continued to put things as high as possible. Throughout the day the water level only increased a few more inches. We have about 12 more to go before it gets to the house so I am feeling pretty good about it. During this, a friend who lives on a golf course knew we were in bad shape because of news reports, shows up today with a truck load of sand! Strangers out at the parking area helped him bag it and carry it in on rafts and kayaks. Unbelievable!
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