While we are looking at a beautiful cloudless North Texas morning, it's still raining in Houston. Nita spent the night at her house last night even though she had no electricity. Her trees have many broken branches and her fence is history. There was no standing water in her neighborhood last night, but when she heard the water pouring off her gutters early this morning she knew it must be raining again. She got up to find the water was up to about 6 feet from the street into her yard, and filled the side street beside her house all the way into the cul-de-sac that runs along the East side of her house. She donned some snow boots (she's investing in rubber boots soon) and went out with her rake to clear the storm drain at the corner of her lot. As soon as she did that all the water began off from the neighboorhood. She said there is a flood pond and canal in the neighborhood. The designers of the pond put the run-off pipes very low toward the bottom of the pond and not up at the top bank of the pond. So when the pond fills to the pipe what do you think happens? Yeah... back-wash! She also had a snake on her front porch this morning.... she's like me when it comes to snakes, they don't freak us out.
So she has good news, no leaking, no damage to the inside of the house, just outside clean-up stuff. She wanted to know if Jolea and I would come down to help her clean the yard.... oh sure, we'll be right down in about 15 hours... the traffic heading south will be atrocious today with it being so nice here. Nah, we're going shopping. She has no power and couldn't cook for us, why should we go if she can't cook? She made coffee on her propane grill this morning, I guess we could have WIENIES! Let the game begin... evil roar.
Haven't heard anything about my cousin's house... six blocks north of the sea wall in Galveston! Yikes... hope it's ok. You know that really famous pier in Galveston, the one that had been there since Prohibition???? It's gone! A pile of rubble!
For those of you in the far off lands, go to TXCN.com to see live coverage of Houston and Galveston. At this time they are showing I-10 underwater and it's flowing like the Colorado River flows through the Grand Canyon. Really scary looking, and would you believe they are having to TELL people not to go out!!!! Maybe they were hit in the head with debris and are delirious....
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That place in Galveston is called the Balinese Room,
www. balineseroom.com
Cool post. I love your updates. You are one of my fave bloggers because you write so smoothly; so well.
Blimey, your cousin's house is close to the sea. I dread to think what might have happened to it.
I'm relieved to hear that Nita's house wasn't flooded[love her name] but am left wondering why she needs 'snowboots' in Texas. Does it snow there or am I being a dumbass, like when I thought that all of Africa was one country and was jungle, and that Arizona was one big, flat desert!
Nita used to live where it snowed... sometime 6-7 inches, and she has been skiing many times. It doesn't snow in Houston much, but when we lived down there we had a severe ice and snow storm that shut the town down for 2 days. People who ask questions are never dumb... it's the ones who don't ask that are.
Love the blog - read it all the time, but you already knew that! Love the story about your sister -- reminds me when my "other" sister (the blond that we keep questioning mother about) wanted me to fly to Houston to sit out her first hurricane with her! Heck no!
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