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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.

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.

Cats & dogs, living together! Mass hysteria!

Dave said:

Cats & dogs, living together! Mass hysteria!

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If things get desperate, I am afraid that the 8 pound cat would hurt the 100 pound dog.

sixpackshaker said:

If things get desperate, I am afraid that the 8 pound cat would hurt the 100 pound dog.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the asshole in the cat.

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.

When I get home I'll have to post all the "Houston is Closed" memes.

Keep your feet dry!

The whole planet of Houston is flooded?!

ThatNickGuy said:

The whole planet of Houston is flooded?!

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Yes General.

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]

Likewise, Aggieland is soggy but draining appropriately. The sun came out around 2 and started the process of converting us to a sauna.

Still raining here, unfortunately it's not bad enough that I can't go to work.

CrimsonSoul said:

Still raining here, unfortunately it's not bad enough that I can't go to work.

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I was a bit disappointed that my road was not flooded this morning.

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.

It's not letting up anytime soon either.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=29.763276172000474&lon=-95.36326622799965#.VxVusZMrKEJ

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:

Keep in mind that the water is way down by this point.

Also this:

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.

Some other pictures

My cousin who lives in Houston spent all day at the bar according to Facebook.

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Seems to be a theme.

--Patrick

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?

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:

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

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.

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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I'm so glad you asked. I looked at that one for a while too.

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

Oh hey, their lights are still on.
For now.

--Patrick

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

jwhouk said:

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

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They may want to add a submarine feature.

The rain flooded only a small section of SE Texas, about twice the size of Rhode Island.

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.

Celt Z said:

They may want to add a submarine feature.

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As long as they can still fly, it shouldn't matter

BErt said:

As long as they can still fly, it shouldn't matter

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But the hover feature does not work over water.

sixpackshaker said:

But the hover feature does not work over water.

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...unless you got power

Well, in their defense it is the greatest fast food restaurant ever invented.

fade said:

Well, in their defense it is the greatest fast food restaurant ever invented.

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Every time I visit Houston, Jack in the Box and Whataburger are two fast food places I have to have before I leave town again. But Whataburger's higher on that list.

Tinwhistler said:

Every time I visit Houston, Jack in the Box and Whataburger are two fast food places I have to have before I leave town again. But Whataburger's higher on that list.

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Wait--is that Jack in the Box? I thought it was whataburger, but now I see "Jack" on everything. I stand corrected if that's Jack in the Box.

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In & Out is creeping into TX, too, now, and that's pretty close to Whataburger.

Fun trivia: there's a smaller whataburger chain in SC that is not affiliated in any way with this Whataburger. They're just coincidentally named.

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I've had In & Out and Whataburger. Respectfully disagree

I've seen the "What A Burger" stores..there's one in NC, also, that's on the route when I take my son to his mom's for visitation. But I've never been inclined to visit just because it has a similar name.

Oops I edited. I assumed that was Whataburger in the photo because of the orange and white. Now I see "Jack" on everything. I could understand tubing to Whataburger.

Oh goodie. It's raining really hard again.

I miss Conway's Red Top.

It wasn't chain (I think they had at most 5 locations), and it wasn't in Texas (it was in Colorado Springs) but man... they made the best burgers and malts ever. They had one a mere 3 blocks from my Dad's house. And the burgers were the size of dinner plates. I went to High School with the presumptive "heir" to the Conway family business, and it was clear he had no inclination whatsoever to take it over... but I suppose it wasn't meant to be. Conway's Red Top got into money trouble in the recession and ceased to exist

This flooding is going to cause me a very busy day today. Lone Star College campuses were closed Mon - Wed, so that canceled both dress rehearsals and the scheduled opening night for the show I'm in. Now we get to have dress at 4pm, and a show right after at 7:30pm. With a cast that's highly distractable and probably haven't even looked at the script in the last 3+ days. *sigh* At least my main role is opposite one of my best friends (playing my daughter for a second time), and I know that she'll have her head in the game.

GasBandit said:

I miss Conway's Red Top.

It wasn't chain (I think they had at most 5 locations), and it wasn't in Texas (it was in Colorado Springs) but man... they made the best burgers and malts ever. They had one a mere 3 blocks from my Dad's house. And the burgers were the size of dinner plates. I went to High School with the presumptive "heir" to the Conway family business, and it was clear he had no inclination whatsoever to take it over... but I suppose it wasn't meant to be. Conway's Red Top got into money trouble in the recession and ceased to exist

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We have red tops down here, like 2 or 3 that I know of

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CrimsonSoul said:

We have red tops down here, like 2 or 3 that I know of

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There's one in Brazoria and one in Lake Jackson and one in Clute the Brazoria location sucks but they do have good malts and the best taco salad I've ever had. They've been here since I was a kid. Maybe a different owner of these locations than yours? They have no signs saying what the name is but the roof is red so we just always called it red top?

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CrimsonSoul said:

There's one in Brazoria and one in Lake Jackson and one in Clute the Brazoria location sucks but they do have good malts and the best taco salad I've ever had. They've been here since I was a kid. Maybe a different owner of these locations than yours? They have no signs saying what the name is but the roof is red so we just always called it red top?

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Must be different people. Do they have super-huge burgers?

I don't think so, just normal sized ones

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I'm about 120 northeast of Houston, company I work for has several stores in Houston, got a call from our district loss-prevention guy earlier this week. He wanted us to put all our more expensive items (that were sitting on the floor) up on pallets to keep them dry in the possibility that we may flood. I'm like "Matt, we're on the biggest hill in the city, we can look across and see the tops of the flat roofs across the highway from us. If we flood, you guys in Houston will have long ago driven through town to escape the sea. I'm not doing that." He laughed.

I'm about a 90-minute drive NW of Houston. My Dad works with FEMA so he might even be heading there for clean-up later. We had flash flood warnings here but nothing bad.

And I just checked the weather forecast. We're supposed to have thunderstorms all next week and Houston will see even more flooding.

Well... at least it's not purple rain.

jwhouk said:

Well... at least it's not purple rain.

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Our worse yet: people rain.

Gruebeard said:

Our worse yet: people rain.

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--Patrick

Saw this comparison photo on Facebook:

Eleanor Tinsley?

fade said:

Eleanor Tinsley?

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Looks like it was taken from University of Houston Downtown. It's close to Eleanor Tinsley Park, but I'm not sure if it extends that far.

Took this one right near my house. I live on Buffalo Bayou, and the water is still over the park trails in a lot of places and the bayou is still really high and fast.

My grandparents used to have a house within 50 yards of Buffalo Bayou. Good memories. Of course, I wasn't there for any floods (or when Hurricane Alicia tore off the roof in 1983).

Phase II has definitely hit. I think I'm a quart low on blood just from taking that photo.

fade said:

Phase II has definitely hit. I think I'm a quart low on blood just from taking that photo.

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--Patrick

Here we go again. Well, west of Houston this time.

https://weather.com/news/weather/video/bravos-river-in-texas-at-record-levels?pl=pl-the-ari-effect

GasBandit said:

Here we go again. Well, west of Houston this time.

https://weather.com/news/weather/video/bravos-river-in-texas-at-record-levels?pl=pl-the-ari-effect

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I stayed with friends in Tomball for the convention. It flooded up there pretty badly over the weekend. I ended up having to take 249 to the north of town and come into their neighborhood from the opposite direction, because Holderreith Road became "Lake Holderreith".

I think on Saturday, they were having a regatta as I passed by.

and I am supposed to get another 3-5 inches of rain today.

Thankfully the flood map for Brazoria County predicts flooding for a few streets away from me, but shows my street to be flood free, yay!

sixpackshaker said:

and I am supposed to get another 3-5 inches of rain today.

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This sentence started with promise, but then ended disappointingly.

fade said:

This sentence started with promise, but then ended disappointingly.

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Just like Nick's Prom Night. ™