Hurricane Harvey

[Bunnylady]

Day is breaking. Rain here. Thunderstorm woke me up around 3am but didn't last long.
Wind less than 5mph currently.
Lights blinked on-off on-off during the tstorm but still on this morning.

Power still on always good news. We were without power for 10 days after Fran; with Floyd, it was only about a day and a half. When I complemented a power company employee on the speed with which power was restored after Floyd, they remarked, "we learned a few things from Fran."

 

[greybeard]

Hope she's doing ok!

We are hanging in there! To say I didn't sleep well is an understatement, lol. DH sleeps like a baby...sigh. We had almost non-stop tornado warnings all night. They were literally all around us. The damage reports are starting to come in now that the sun is up. We've had substantial rain and some gusty winds. (wish my rain gauge was working, ugh!) Took Gracie for a short walk just as the sun was coming up and there are small branches and a lot of leaves covering the road.

I have learned over the years to just go to sleep when storms come if I'm tired. Nothin I could do anyway if a tornado came across the pasture so I may as well get some sleep.

High water is a little different..I have some time to react and options.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I have learned over the years to just go to sleep when storms come if I'm tired. Nothin I could do anyway if a tornado came across the pasture so I may as well get some sleep.

I definitely shoulda just turned off the phones... those alerts are obnoxious. We turned down the volume, but I think I was hyper-alert. Might be different if I knew DH would wake up, but I know he could sleep through the roof blowing off, lol!

Feeling really lucky that we have power - it's out in many places all around us.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That's good to hear FEM.....sure hope the power continues, but that relentless rain will sure get on the nerves too....may have to "Pop a Cork" and relax a bit...after those alerts slow down some.....especially since there won't be any outside work for a few days....other than feeding and checking on the animals.....

 

[frustratedearthmother]

.....especially since there won't be any outside work for a few days....other than feeding and checking on the animals.....

You're right about that! Should probably use this time to clean closets or something, lol. maybe not...

Looks like we've had about 8 inches of rain so far....still coming down! Wind gusts in the 16-20mph range. It's a blustery day out there!

 

[Baymule]

Glad that y'all are ok and still have power. Check in from time to time to let us know y'all are ok.

 

[greybeard]

Power still on always good news. We were without power for 10 days after Fran; with Floyd, it was only about a day and a half. When I complemented a power company employee on the speed with which power was restored after Floyd, they remarked, "we learned a few things from Fran."

Same here..They learned a few things from Rita in 2005, so when Ike came in '08, they were 'more prepared'. Saw out-of-state bucket trucks from as far away as Missouri.
Rather than try to repair the main lines, they found a way to run a completely new line into E Texas from Louisiana, which cut what was projected to be a month or more without power to about 2 1/2 weeks.
(we're still paying for all that on our monthly elec bill I notice, but that's the way things work)

 

[greybeard]

Couldn't get the Harvey sunset pictures because of cloud cover, but here's "Calm before the storm" sunset pics I took about 6 hrs before Ike hit in '08...taken from the apt parking lot I lived in at the time while my home was being built.

Early the next morning, was very different...same parking lot, but from a different angle:

Got in my truck and drove thru town:

A couple weeks later..pic doesn't do justice to the reality. There were dozens and dozens of bucket trucks on that new line. The old destroyed line is on the opposite side of the highway.

 

[greybeard]

one more..

 

[CntryBoy777]

Storms can certainly change the landscape and do such damage that it takes yrs to recover from....if it is ever recovered from....totally.