Posted by docmirror on September 04, 2017 at 13:11:02 from (107.213.165.255):
In Reply to: Texas flooding posted by 37Chief on September 03, 2017 at 09:02:35:
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.
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