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Now it's once again supposed to loop back over the gulf before restrengthening and hitting Houston head on. In response, our school is closed for the week.[DOUBLEPOST=1503860355,1503860135][/DOUBLEPOST]This is the bayou near my house (~5 min walk). Normally, the bayou is well within steep, channelized banks beyond the far treeline. What's in front of me is a deep grassy bowl. I would have to reach up from the ground to touch the bottom branches of the trees you see.

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[DOUBLEPOST=1503860468][/DOUBLEPOST]I put an interactive panorama on Facebook if you're friends with me there
 
Just announced, US Highway 59 is closed at Goodrich, TX heading south toward Houston. That's about 50 miles north of the Houston metro area (Humble to be specific), that's how far these floods are affecting people.
 
I stole this from my brother who...

(Stole this from a friend)
For my non-Houston friends- to help you understand the devastation:
Houston is huge. The greater metropolitan area is circled by the Grand Parkway - which is 170 miles long. That makes the area of the circle inside the Grand Parkway over 2200 sq. miles.
2200 square miles of densely habited, urban and suburban, areas with over 7 million residents is flooded.
Imagine if the entire state of Delaware, with twice the population of Manhattan, was under water.
That's Houston.
It's still raining.
 
I stole this from my brother who...

(Stole this from a friend)
For my non-Houston friends- to help you understand the devastation:
Houston is huge. The greater metropolitan area is circled by the Grand Parkway - which is 170 miles long. That makes the area of the circle inside the Grand Parkway over 2200 sq. miles.
2200 square miles of densely habited, urban and suburban, areas with over 7 million residents is flooded.
Imagine if the entire state of Delaware, with twice the population of Manhattan, was under water.
That's Houston.
It's still raining.
Stealing to signal boost.
 

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The overpass at Sam Houston Parkway and Boheme collapsed.[DOUBLEPOST=1503873857,1503873806][/DOUBLEPOST]Latest models are showing it may restrengthen to cat 1 before hitting Houston head on.
 
And of course it's essential that I come to work and sit down playing in my phone for 12 hours a night because I got voluntold for hurricane duty even though there is no work at all to do (railroad) because the plant is basically shut down
 

They have been evacuated. But that is just heart breaking.

edit: and the lady doing her knitting, don't give a fuck. I like Texas.
 
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My personal tragedy, I can't watch Game of Thrones due to the satellite signal is too weak.

Oh, and the water has been out for 3 hours.[DOUBLEPOST=1503883018,1503882811][/DOUBLEPOST]GoT is streaming on HBOgo. Just like my driveway.
 
Posting to let everyone know that my brother & his family are remarkably well off so far. They had to hunker down in a closet during tornado warnings last night and did lose power for a while, but it has been restored and they have not yet had any water in their house. Closest it has come is the street they live on had an inch or two of water at one point today. They are a bit south of Houston in Rosharon, TX.

Several of their friends are not as lucky, a few have lost their homes.
 
Looks like I am stuck in my house. The only road out of the subdivision is flooded/closed.[DOUBLEPOST=1503889912,1503889611][/DOUBLEPOST]I got a wicked bad case of cabin fever. Thank God I went to a friend's house last night, or I'd be completely nuts right now.
 

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Guys it's getting pretty wet here. The culverts are saturated and the streets around us are flooding.
 
Might want to put together a bug-out bag, just in case.
Maybe make some backups of any critical files, that sort of thing.
...you know, while there's still time.

--Patrick
 
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Street is up to my knees.

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[DOUBLEPOST=1503892517,1503892486][/DOUBLEPOST]Also you're welcome for the photo of my junk.
 
HOw many people are still inside the (probably expanding) evacuation zone? Are there any mandatory evacuation zones yet?
 

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That water subsided fairly quickly. We were fine within a couple of hours. The neighbors' teens kayaked down the street.

When it was high, I saw a beach ball floating down the street. I held out my hand and it came right over to my open hand. Creepy. I was looking around for Pennywise.

"They all float down gargle gargle blub blub."
 
The bridge out of my neighborhood. It is normally 20 feet over the creek.


The road just past the bridge. There is a pickup truck in that shot. I still don't see it.



My back yard... lake. This is the first time that it has topped the dam in the last 10 years.


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Around my home/work, the rain has been coming and going. The drainage is largely doing its job, and we're not inordinately inconvenienced.
 
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