Texas flooding

Anyone here effected by the flood, or heavy rain? What a mess. I heard a cattle rancher lost 700 head. Probably a lot of loss we will never hear of. Stan

So sad to see all the flooding and destruction. My wife has kin in Bay City and Houston. I have kin in Portland and Port Aransas.
The weathermen said we would probably get two to five inches from the storm as it passes to the east of us.
We got only a slight misting on the Friday before it hit Rockport.
As it churned eastward we got the back side winds bringing the hot Mexico desert heat.
Would be happy with at least an inch of rain. we sure are dry.

My sister lives in Houston. Got water in her garage but not her house. That is cutting it to close for comfort.

Cattle are pretty resilient to floods; but when you get 4 feet of rain all bets are off.
What will be the problem now will be feeding the cows that made it threw since all the grass will be dead and hay storage ruined.

Crops on the other hand will take a big loss. Plenty of cotton ruined and while corn has been harvested it still goes bad when the bin floods.

One thing to watch is how the floods interrupt areas hundreds of miles away.
Like after Katrina it effected people in Iowa because the shipping port was shut down.
In south Texas it will be gasoline production if they do not get up and running soon.

The Aftermath of Harvey hit Sanford,NC late Friday afternoon... It rained 2 1/2" in about 30 min and tore up a few buildings and homes... Some minor flooding and trees down. I rode by a warehouse this morning the roof panels were laying on the ground with the metal building z-girts still screwed to them...

The paper did not categorize it as a tornado it said something about the upward pull of the storm doing the damage. Other than that tennis ball hale was reported...

May 2011 a tornado landed and stayed on the ground for 60 miles are more this event happen about 1/4 mile from there...

Don't look now, but there's another that might make landfall. Was watching last night a report talking about hurricane Irma, which is still far enough out to not be certain whether it will make landfall or not. If it does, seems it'll hit the eastern seaboard somewhere. They expect it to be a Cat 4 storm, with a possibility of reaching Cat 5!!

The worst of the flooding for some areas is still underway. Where I am down on the gulf in the Lake Jackson, Texas area, all that rain water from further north is just now starting to crest on the Brazos and San Bernard rivers.The crest levels are forecast to remain for several days before finally starting to fall. The area was already water-logged and partially flooded from its own heavy local rainfall, so the terrain is less able to absorb the new flood water from the rivers.

(quoted from post at 13:37:39 09/03/17) The worst of the flooding for some areas is still underway. Where I am down on the gulf in the Lake Jackson, Texas area, all that rain water from further north is just now starting to crest on the Brazos and San Bernard rivers.The crest levels are forecast to remain for several days before finally starting to fall. The area was already water-logged and partially flooded from its own heavy local rainfall, so the terrain is less able to absorb the new flood water from the rivers.

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How are the Howells?

Last Wednesday afternoon we got a faint mist and heavy wind from the NE.

Not enough moisture to settle the dust.

Thanks for checking on us here on the farm in NE Texas.

Live between Beaumont and Port Arthur in Fannett Texas, direct hit. We had 48.34 inches .I was fortunate no flooding. Four Nephews,Sister in law and Mother in law all homes flooded.One to the roof top. The main thing is we are all safe and sound.Total devastation in our comunitty. Yes there were cattle and horse losses.Rancher and farmers cut the fencing opened gates and most will find higher ground such as highways.We know that there will be loose livestock on the road.All ranchers and farmers working together round them up pen them and usually knows each others brand to id the livestock.As we speak Facebook pages full of livestock pics that are found.Hay, feed and supplies are arriving daily with hurricane disaster teams.I Spent the day yesterday unloading round bales and feed from Oklahoma and north Texas.We are strong hard working people as most on the yesterday's tractor site are , and will work together all races,creed and color,nnalert and nnalert and with the grace of god pull thru this disaster

As I mentioned earlier, the Coastal Plains are full of farms (lots of rice and sugar cane in some places) and ranches. I was born and grew up down there. Land is flat. Just think about it. 3' of water or more (this time) as far as the eye can see. Stays there for days. Total destruction. Devastating.

Many times my thoughts include the folks that have chosen to reside (for generations) in Port Aransas. So nice when the weather is your friend; so bad when it's not. I guess the folks that choose places like the Grand Banks on the Atlantic are in a similar situation. Course looking around, places like that everywhere. But folks survive, rebuild, enjoy life and repeat the process.

John, I asked how you came out earlier. Guess you missed my post. You make it OK?

On the Port of Houston, besides the petrochemical production and shipping facilities, they are like a funnel for a lot of grain raised in the central plains.

One thing that caught my eye was the Cruise Ships stuck out in the Gulf waiting for the port to reopen. One mentioned on the news went to NOLA to let folks off (some did and paid their way back home the news reported....to the flood) and then went back out to get back into Galveston but couldn't and had to return to NOLA. That had a real depressing bummer for the passengers.

Here in Northwest Ohio we had rain from Harvey on Saterday. I know very little about Texas and was superised about Houston being on the coast, I thought it was a couple of hundred miles inland and also superised that it was no. 4 in size in the states. I thought it was less than half the size of Dallas with at least 20 cities larger than it is.

Mark;

Answered several that asked how we made out. Might have missed yours.
We are fine. Had some rain and a little wind but nothing we could not handle.
Thanks for asking.

I just got back home from W Houston. I have two rentals in the Katy area. Both are near Mayde creek. Both were affected by the flooding on last Sunday, and Monday heavy rains. Mayde creek crested its bank on Saturday at about midnight.

We had about 2" of water standing in one house, and just barely over the foundation in the other house. I got my tenants out on Sat and put them in hotels a bit further west for 3 days.

I took my big Dodge truck 4x4 and car hauler trailer down, and pulled various cars out of the muck on Mon and Tue. We pulled up all the floor in both houses, and I'll begin putting in new tile in both. One house has damage to the cabinet bases, and hoping we can just shave off the cabinet bases and put new wood down and brace the cabinets to the new frame.

No lost people, or pets, but the tenants spent 3 days locked out of the houses. There were much, much worse happening downstream from Addicks res. The folks around Buffalo Bayou got damaged badly on Mon and Tue. We were sort of lucky that the emer release of water from Addicks res took a lot of pressure off Mayde cr and other creeks upstream. If they didn't open the flood gates, Addicks was going to go over the spillway, and that would have been far worse.

When I was staying out west, I got locked out of town by I-10 shutting down west of Katy. I bypassed a blocked onramp and just tucked in behind a line of National Guard rigs going east. The water was about 1' over I-10 there, and then further near the Brazos bridge, it was underwater on Wed for a while.

Plenty of poor folk in Houston and further east really got hammered. We were slightly unlucky, but so many had it much harder.

I have a good friend it Rockport who had a classic car shop. His shop was destroyed and several Porsches were damaged. Of course, a lot of people lost homes there, and it will be years before the Rockport area is back to normal. The devastation of the gulf coast of Texas was almost from end to end. Brownsville was nearly untouched, but everything north of Corpus was affected, all the way to Beaumont.

I made it out without much damage. I got a scrape on the side of the bed of my truck, and lots of water in the carpet. I'll replace the carpet, and have the fender fixed. Lucky in most all respects. Condolences for those who had it much worse.