Hurricane Harvey

[Bunnylady]

I sent FEM a text, so far no response.

Hopefully, she's just incommunicado at the moment.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Praying for you Texans

 

[Baymule]

Weather station just said that Naussau Bay (below Houston and to the east of FEM) just got over 9 inches of rain in one hour!

 

[CntryBoy777]

Oh my!!.....I hope all are okay....I've been wondering about FEM, thanks for the update there Bay....sure hope GB is okay too.....

 

[Latestarter]

Not much to say but I sure hope our south TX folks can hold on and make it through the next week or so. @Baymule you've been talking about your sister down near the river... I sure hope she's taken to her wheels and gotten out of there. If she hasn't, it may already be too late for her as well. Instead of rebuilding a flood damaged home, this time she may be rebuilding from a clean slate... Sure hope FEM isn't flooded in with a sinking island... Has anyone heard from Kate? I believe she's well south of the area getting pounded now. We also had some other newer members down that way. Sure hope they're doing OK as well.

 

[Latestarter]

SBC just posted on my journal that she's been in contact with @Ferguson K (Kate) and she's/they're doing OK

 

[frustratedearthmother]

We are ok. Unbelievable devastation in the surrounding areas, but we are ok. I'm almost embarrassed to say that I actually slept in this morning. Was up past 3am watching and listening. Finally got so exhausted from two nights of not much sleep that I turned off the phone and totally crashed for a few hours.

I think the only thing that saved us was that the bands of rain would hit us, then split around us, and then we would get a break for awhile. Our ditches/culverts are freshly cleaned out within the last couple weeks and things are draining well. Don't know what will happen when there's no where left for the water to drain to. Not sure we're totally out of the woods yet, but thankful that we are ok.

Hoping that Greybeard can get out of a bad situation.

My brother and parents are in Baytown. They are ok. It's a good thing because I couldn't get to them even if lives depended on it. Flooding all around us.

We're not out of this yet. Just hoping and praying that we stay lucky and that everyone else gets out of this ok!

 

[Southern by choice]

SBC just posted on my journal that she's been in contact with @Ferguson K (Kate) and she's/they're doing OK

oops sorry LS- son't know how that happened I thought I was on this one.

So glad to hear from you FEM

 

[babsbag]

Greybeard, I am praying that the rain around you will give you a break and that all is safe.

 

[greybeard]

After driving a tractor over it, then walking it, I and wife were able to get out a little earlier, but nowhere to go. The county roads are all flooded.
I probably could have made it to my sister's place further up the highway but left it up to my wife. She wanted to return home. We barely made it back in, but we'll stick it out here.
So far, we still have electricity, plenty of canned food, a generator and enough fuel for 48 hrs if the power does go out.
My exit/entrance problem.

And, as if there isn't enough water coming down already, the water treatment plant decided to pump itself out this morning.

My home is on pilings, with top of first finished floor a full 6' above grade, and it does have an upstairs.

It is going to get worse before it gets better, once the river rises. That will be this afternoon sometime, and thru the night.

SJRA is going to let water out of Lake Conroe, but slowly and incrementally. Since that water feeds the West Fork San Jacinto River and the East Fork converge farther downstream, the increased flow from West Fork will adversely affect how much water I see from my fork of the river.
http://www.yourconroenews.com/east-...Rivera-Authority-reverses-course-12003233.php