How have you faired during the hurricane?
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Katy area here just north of IH10. Water got over the curb a couple times, but thats it. I have a rental in the Cypress area and it made it up to the garage a couple times. I was actually out of town on Army National Guard duty and just got home a few days ago. Wife held down the fort with all 4 kids. the area I was in got close to 40 inches of rain, but flooding was not really an issue.
Live in SE Houston (Sagemont area). We got 7 inches of water in the house, on Saturday (8/26)by mid-night. I had a 14" waterline mark at the front door. By 2am (8/27) we had pushed/swept most of the water out of the house and water was down to the middle of the yard. I have Flood insurance and had claim going by 4am on the 27th. we took pictures of just about everything that night and during clean up. I have one wall left to remove 2' of sheetrock and I will been done. Just a waiting game after that, waiting on Insurance guy to show up. We were very, very lucky compared to people on the other side of Beltway-8(~1.5 miles away), as most of them had 3' or more of water in their houses.
I was working last week in the Texas City area. Dickinson was hammered. A lot of people lost everything.
One thing I saw while checking on clients employees and families was that everyone was working together in the neighborhoods.
Made me very proud to be a naturalized TexaN. Imagine entire neighborhoods with everything they own stacked like this out on the curb.
One thing I saw while checking on clients employees and families was that everyone was working together in the neighborhoods.
Made me very proud to be a naturalized TexaN. Imagine entire neighborhoods with everything they own stacked like this out on the curb.
West side of Spring here (99/Kuykendahl area). Harvey was enough rain to show us the four leaks in our roof that have been there for years. $950 later roof is fixed. So no complaints here. I went into work (Ellington Fire Dept.) Friday afternoon and stayed busy supporting the USCC & ANG. However we did have water get into our truck stalls. About 4" and flowing strongly at it's peak. I finally went home Wednesday afternoon.
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Sorry I’ve been absent here but we’re doing good, our house in Portland faired well just minor stuff and a lost fence. Our shop in Rockport got heavy damage and we’ve been dealing with that, Rockport as a whole looked like a war zone, a buddy of mine with Aransas County PD says they estimate around 170 tornados tore through when the eye made landfall.
Tony (V-Tach) is good, their house made it through with minor damage, the shop and range is good and they’ve already been open for business suffering only minor roof damage.
Tony (V-Tach) is good, their house made it through with minor damage, the shop and range is good and they’ve already been open for business suffering only minor roof damage.
Love the Caution Wet Floor sign!
You know how the military works... Safety first! LOL
In spit of getting 36 to 40 inches of rain in our backyard rain gauge, thanks to the good Lord, we stayed high and dry. Lost power a couple of times, but only for a couple of hours one time, but by the time I drug myself out of bed and went out to start the borrowed genny, the power came back online. Main lesson learned was don't put RV in the shop for repairs this time of the year, and get a mid size genny for emergency use which I have already accomplished.
billviverette
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- Jun 26, 2015
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Wow! Quite a step back in recent history. I slept well that night - and my heart goes out to those that did not - only because we live near a huge drainage culvert and it's all downhill from here to the West Fork of the San Jacinto. So the water rose - over 8 feet in the culvert during the day, but it still had another 3 feet to go to top the bridge to our roads, and even more to top the canal (and only then to utter effing flooding hell).
