Rain, lightning, flooding in Houston

[BackInTex]

We are having what they called a Meso-convective Complex. A stationary one at that. The system just sat on us for 10 hours. Areas 20 miles south got less than 2 inches.

My area of town has received 20 inches of rain in the last 10 hours. That is twenty inches. The website for our county's flood warning system is down, probably overloaded as everyone is trying to get to it to see individual creek levels.

My house sits at the highest level of the watershed we are in so I'm personally O.K. Lots of other folks won't be.

[Beebs52]

I think we had ten or so inches. The township offices are even closed which is unheard of

[Vandal]

Don't forget your umbrella...

[mrkelley23]

Anyone live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane there?

[BackInTex]

Anyone live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane there?

Since you brought it up (and I looked it up) no one lives on Mockingbird lane here, let alone 1313. Mockingbird lane runs from 1700 to 1900, just two blocks, and it is a cross street between the three streets folks live and have addresses on. But they are nice addresses, in the River Oaks area of Houston. Houston's most expensive residential real estate, $4,000,000 lots.

[Bob Juch]

Anyone live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane there?

Since you brought it up (and I looked it up) no one lives on Mockingbird lane here, let alone 1313. Mockingbird lane runs from 1700 to 1900, just two blocks, and it is a cross street between the three streets folks live and have addresses on. But they are nice addresses, in the River Oaks area of Houston. Houston's most expensive residential real estate, $4,000,000 lots.

I know the area; when I was working in Houston I went to a Mensa games night there. (They'll never play Trivial Pursuit with me again.) The host said they had a flooding problem there. They also had robbery problems at the local mall.

[a1mamacat]

was thinking of you all while watching the news. stay safe!

[andrewjackson]

I now live in Midtown Houston, just south of downtown. My area got between 6 and 8 inches of rain on Sunday night and Monday according to the rainfall monitor system. There was a couple of feet of water in the street at my house on Monday morning but it never made it up to my front door or the garage door in the back of my 3-story townhouse. It was very similar to the flooding last May and June in my area.

The federal courthouse was still open on Monday so as usual I walked the 2 miles into work. When I stepped out of my patio gate I saw a trash can submerged in the water out in the street. Even worse, I realized it was was mine. It had apparently been swept off the cross-street where I had put it the night before and kind of forgot about it. It was not much fun getting it out of 2 feet of flowing water and back up into my patio. But a minor problem compared to what a lot of people in other parts of town had to deal with.

In the Midtown area the water at the intersections was consistently up over my knees but in downtown there was a lot less. I did see several manhole covers popping up from the flow of water in the storm drains. Very few people tried to drive and the Metro bus/rail system was shutdown so the courthouse was pretty vacant all day. My walk home was uneventful as the water had pretty much receded from the streets by then.

I have friends who have been flooded out for the 2nd or 3rd time in the last few years. One family was flooded out twice, gave up at that location, and moved to a house that had never flooded. It flooded on Monday.

The flooding to the north and west of the city was pretty bad and the water is still coming up in some areas. The bayous near downtown are out of their banks. We have rain in the forecast for the next couple of days so we'll see what happens.

[Bob Juch]

I now live in Midtown Houston, just south of downtown. My area got between 6 and 8 inches of rain on Sunday night and Monday according to the rainfall monitor system. There was a couple of feet of water in the street at my house on Monday morning but it never made it up to my front door or the garage door in the back of my 3-story townhouse. It was very similar to the flooding last May and June in my area.

The federal courthouse was still open on Monday so as usual I walked the 2 miles into work. When I stepped out of my patio gate I saw a trash can submerged in the water out in the street. Even worse, I realized it was was mine. It had apparently been swept off the cross-street where I had put it the night before and kind of forgot about it. It was not much fun getting it out of 2 feet of flowing water and back up into my patio. But a minor problem compared to what a lot of people in other parts of town had to deal with.

In the Midtown area the water at the intersections was consistently up over my knees but in downtown there was a lot less. I did see several manhole covers popping up from the flow of water in the storm drains. Very few people tried to drive and the Metro bus/rail system was shutdown so the courthouse was pretty vacant all day. My walk home was uneventful as the water had pretty much receded from the streets by then.

I have friends who have been flooded out for the 2nd or 3rd time in the last few years. One family was flooded out twice, gave up at that location, and moved to a house that had never flooded. It flooded on Monday.

The flooding to the north and west of the city was pretty bad and the water is still coming up in some areas. The bayous near downtown are out of their banks. We have rain in the forecast for the next couple of days so we'll see what happens.

You should work as a mailman. "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

[Bob Juch]

The TV news says over 1200 people had to be rescued from their homes.

[BackInTex]

Aerial footage of the flooding by my house.

The drone is pointed directly at my home and neighborhood at the 4:14 mark. The highway you see is US-290 that is running Southeast to Northwest. The drone, at 4:14 is facing southeast. The road you see running north/south separates my neighborhood's watershed from the watershed that is flooding on the west side. At some point today is began running over the road into my neighborhood's waterways, but no homes in my neighborhood were affected.