The water in Allison that flooded Beechnut came just up to the back tires of my car, parked in my elevated driveway, with the nose touching my garage door (garage was too full of stuff to get the car in).
At that very moment, I started to flip out after hours and hours of straight unending pounding rain, and it stopped! And the minute it stopped, the water reached an equilibrium and within seconds, it started receding.
We had many abandoned cars in the esplanade, though. The storm had come back strong between about 2AM and 4AM and all the drunks in the bars were coming home, then got stranded in the high water just down from my house.
Being a storm nut, I was out there *observing* for my storm forum and the drunks got rowdy, then I got scared. So, I called the cops and they just laughed at me. I asked if they could at least put up a barricade to keep cars from coming onto that stretch of the street. Ha, the cop shop was on my same street several blocks down and they said they couldn't get out!
Unlike ABC 13, NBC channel 2 is only showing local news right now and not going to the hideous Today show. So, that's the channel to be on for local updates. 13 went on to GMA.