At least my tryst with a tropical cyclone last year was short lived: it cost our city many of its trees, but passed in hours. But I know what it is to be flooded out from the previous year.
Luckily we have been just at the very edge so far. It has rained nonstop since yesterday but that's it and I don't live in a flood prone area. Houston has been getting hammered by very heavy rain today though and that whole city is pretty much flood prone.
North side of Houston here and everything is OK. Have some friends on the south side and everything is OK there too. Downtown is flooding, but it floods there when someone leaves a sprinkler on. I think @shipsupt is on the west side and I haven't heard anything from there.
I've been seeing updates from many Houston friends on Facebook. Huge parts of the city have received 22+ inches of rain and it is still going strong. In some places the flooding is up to the stoplights. Schools have canceled for the week.
If you're wondering why it floods so bad (aside from a stalled hurricane/tropical storm dumping massive amounts of water) its because it is very low and was originally marshland that was drained and now the city is covered in concrete. They depend on some large bayous to drain the water when storms hit but the rain has overwhelmed this system.
Yeah... my city's problem is that nobody gives a f**k for anything but making money, and so many lakes, ponds, waterways just got encroached on, built on, built up. Result: monsoon floods and summer thirst.
Safe and dry out west here. Lots of local flooding, roads being washed away, some small tornado damage... We had a minor emergency when our router/switch got fried in a power outage and we lost the internet! On a more serious note, there are a lot of people seriously impacted by this storm and I wish safety for them all.
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