Houston flooding

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Houstonians: don't go out if you don't have to. I could not make it to work on the west side. Memorial is flooded, Gessner is a lake, and a lot of the tollway underpasses on the beltway and Westpark are literally death traps. Our CEO told everyone to stay home. Hope yours did the same.
 
sixpackshaker

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I was shocked that the road out of my neighborhood was not flooded this morning. Now I hope that the rain will end before the road floods over. So I can get back to my cat and dog.
 
figmentPez

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I'm fine, I'm not in a flooded area, and I'm in a third floor apartment anyway. I've still got water and power. I'm even a little happy that play rehearsals got canceled tonight, I kind of need a bit of a rest.
 
CrimsonSoul

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I'm about 45 miles south of Houston we didn't have that bad of flooding here and my house is up on a little bit of a hill so it's hard for water to get into my house so all good here[DOUBLEPOST=1461015186,1461015132][/DOUBLEPOST]
 
GasBandit

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Likewise, Aggieland is soggy but draining appropriately. The sun came out around 2 and started the process of converting us to a sauna.
 
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Death toll is at 5 so far. Often it's the people who try to drive across water and underestimate the depth and the power of moving water.
 
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It was bad when I tried to go to work this morning. I tried again at lunch and the police had barricaded nearly every reasonable route to work. Sunny now, though. Here's some photos I snapped at lunchtime:
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Keep in mind that the water is way down by this point.

Also this:
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Tinwhistler

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Friend of mine just posted this image of a retaining wall along 290 giving way



This shit better be done with by the time I come visit..just saying.
 
ThatNickGuy

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That second picture confuses me. Shouldn't the water line there be the start of the curb? Why are the cars so deeply submerged there?
 
Tinwhistler

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ThatNickGuy said:
That second picture confuses me. Shouldn't the water line there be the start of the curb? Why are the cars so deeply submerged there?
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The water line is not the start of the curb. The cars are parked against the curb, and the land slopes up relatively sharply from there.

My old neighborhood in Lewisville had a very similar topography:

 
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PatrThom

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With that sort of city planning, it's almost like they built it for the houses to resist flooding. Shame about the cars, though.

--Patrick
 
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PatrThom said:
With that sort of city planning, it's almost like they built it for the houses to resist flooding. Shame about the cars, though.

--Patrick
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They do. The streets are designed as channels, but there's only so much they can handle. Houston is designed to handle flooding, being virtually at sea level, clay-based, and crossed by many bayous. But this was the second largest flood event in recorded Houston history.
 
GasBandit

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And the bayous of Houston, they are floo-ooding
Our streets are rivers in the murder swell
So many lives on the tide
Memorial Drive's quite a ride
And the bayous of Houston are flooding

 
jwhouk

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Oh great, and just as the DeLorean Motor Company was about to get production started on those "new" DMC-12's...
 
General Specific

General Specific

My brother and his family live in Houston and his wife's family is all over that area. From what I have been able to gather, all are safe and dry.
 
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