I was talking to my sister about that a few minutes ago, last report I got on TV was 16" at Harris county line. More headed your way but not as heavy as that from the way the radar looks. I Forgot to check our gauge, we got rain all day starting around 2AM or so till sometime this afternoon while I was napping. Nothing like you got though.
I remember the Houston floods, I was there in late 80's when Galveston was evacuated for a hurricane, had a heavy rain and Houston flooded at another time, my uncle and I drove around pulling people out of the underpasses. Bad design those, insufficient drainage, all below 610, get 3 inches rain and every underpass in sight floods. Almost got into a fight with 2 wrecker drivers standing there arguing over who would pull some guy out, we ignored them and pulled him out, refused to take the $20 he tried to give us, wrecker drivers tried to start a fight.
We told them if they were stupid enough to stand there and argue it was their own fault, drove off and left them standing there cussing us. All they had to do is flip a quarter, one take that guy and the other drive on, there were dozens of people all over town stalled under the 610 underpasses. We pulled at least 15 cars out that day alone.
Glad you're OK. Just found out one of my aunts was flooded out last week when heavy rains hit north Louisiana, 3 feet of water in her house. They're over 75, sheriff's dept came and got them in a boat. They're OK but have a big clean up, house might be destroyed, it was probably built in the 1930's. They live 50 yards from Bayou Bartholomew, you can literally throw a rock from their front yard into the bayou. As far as I can remember that's the only time in my 60 years it has ever left its banks. As far as I know they're OK too.
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