Posted on 08/24/2017 8:44:29 AM PDT by NautiNurse
I had military choppers landing in my neighborhood tonight, evacuating people.
The bayou came 7 or 8 blocks all the way to my street and then stopped rising. No way in or out of my area except boat and copter.
a large ladder fire truck got stuck on my street for a while.
Did you escape serious flood damage?
Prayers up!
This old lady in MA has been thinking about you———what a disaster.
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Oh man, what a disaster.
Except for my street, entire area flooded.
A huge ladder fire truck got blocked by water on my street and had to back up a quarter mile, and then just loitered because there was no where to go. Firefighter friend told me they cant go above the hubs.
Bayou came all the way up to my street, about a mile, and stopped right in front of neighbors’ house. It was surreal. It had stopped raining for a bit and we marked the high water extent in the street.
abandoned cars every where.
I helped an old lady to a helicopter. Military coming in still. They are landing at church parking lot, zip 77025. Folks are messed up. I am A OK by comparison.
Tired from working pumps and draining buckets all night.
Hey. It is crazy here. I am on a slight ridge, so subtle you cant see it until there is flooding. My bayou, Brays Bayou. Is a mile away about. All houses between me and bayou are flooded to some extent.
On the norther, fancier side of the bayou the flooding is worser/ deeper for the first sevrral blocks and then the incline rises and homes are safe. Lots of nice mansions there built 6 feet off the ground, and older homes zero feet off the ground.
I’m pumping out my yard and garage. Due to settling my garage is lower than my yard. I cut a trench the length of my property. I am sore and tired
If anyone can spare a prayer, my daughter’s school/church was completely inundated. My wife actually cried from it.
Saint Thomas Episcopal, in 77096. 5 blocks from bayou.
To be honest, winds here never got much over 35 and that was just momentarily.
heck, they are landing blackhack-type helicopters a few blacks from here.
Thanks for the info-—I had been thinking of you and your family.
I’m in MA and cannot even imagine what it must be like——the TV shots never depict the complete reality of this type of disaster.
All we can do in this type of thing is keep putting one foot in front of the other,plod along, and let God handle the rest.
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Still think blah blah blah?
This is the raee one that actually validated the prestorm hype.
As the water recedes, I will be headed down to Houston to help with the clean up.
Keep praying for all those inundated.
Glad you’re OK (other than sore and tired) and still relatively dry.
Did your power stay on? How did your truck fare, and your fish?
If you ever go to sell your house, it should be worth big bucks, as it didn’t flood.
“Keep praying for all those inundated.”
Prayers up!
And thanks be to the Lord for those who escaped the worst of it, and a blessing on those who went to, or are going to, the aid of those in need.
It was the weirdest thing. My street and the next over did not flood. Everywhere else did.
I did not lose power. Areas around me did. Water never got high enough to tnreaten our vehicles.
Underneath 610 at s. Post Oak I saw a flooded out fire truck just abandoned, alone. Not the same one that got stuck on my street.
It was surreal. I was tired. Drove to my daughter’s school. It is a few blocks from the bayou and received several feet of water, but by the time I got there the water had receded and folks were busy putting furniture out on the curb.
I helped a lady to her helicopter ride. Saw a lot of folks from my super neighborhood waiting for their helicopter ride. Lot of sad folks.
re: fish. I have koi, goldies, and minnows in an outside pond that fared well.Lots of debris, obviously.
Due to weather I did not feed them for several days. When I cleaned the pond today I made a gross discovery: sometime during the hurricane a bird fell in the pond, and my fish ate it. To the bone. Everything but the elbows, which was pivotal to identification, as it was in several parts.
Wow...killer Koi. Now that they have a taste for it, I guess you’re going to have to throw them the occasional bird...or some fried chicken.
These “Koi” don’t happen to have a large protruding fin on their back do they?
Anyway, I’m glad you and your home came through all this safe and intact.
Have valued your storm threads I and II. Could you start a third thread: Recovery Efforts After Hurricane Harvey. this will be a long slow slog and information will be needed and valued. At any rate, thank you for your efforts.
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