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From the frying pan into the bayou!

#1 Postby vbhoutex » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:42 pm

Central and Eastern Harris County, basically from downtown East is experiencing major flooding due to training/stalled thunderstorms with rainafall rates sometimes approaching 4" per hour. Some of I-10 and I-45 are now impassable.

This is the last email I recieved from Jeff about it.

Major flooding ongoing over downtown Houston and central Harris County.

Several major freeways are impassable along with almost all secondary and surface streets. Water is getting very close to going into homes and businesses because the rainfall rate is so intense the underground drainage system is not able to handle the loads. Streets are currently being used as the primary drainage system.

Stay where you are, do not try to travel across any parts of central and eastern Harris County.

At this time all the bayous are handling the water, but we are getting tremendous inflow into Buffalo, Hunting, and White Oak bayous.

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#2 Postby Roxy » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:49 pm

Watching KHOU now, I can't believe these pictures...like a miniature allison!

Amazing how two weeks ago, we were so dry thinking it would never rain again, now it's a monsoon around here!
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#3 Postby vbhoutex » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:18 pm

Roxy wrote:Watching KHOU now, I can't believe these pictures...like a miniature allison!

Amazing how two weeks ago, we were so dry thinking it would never rain again, now it's a monsoon around here!


It is crazy!!! West side is in much better shape than the east side. My son will probably have to spend the night at his girlfriends house in Crosby(I'm sure he hates that!!NOT!!!)I'm not sure he can get home from Baytown with at least two portions of i-10 flooded.
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#4 Postby Shoshana » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:37 pm

Y'all be careful. We're havin a gullywasher here in Austin as I'm typin this. Temp went from 103 to 78 in just a few minutes. We needed the rain - hopefully some will soak in rather than run off...

They were showin kids in Rice Village in Houston on floaties in the mddle of the street playin... ew... that water's nasty!

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#5 Postby JenBayles » Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:57 am

I'm thinking those kids won't like it when they swim through a "floatie" of fire ants either!
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