September 19, 20196 yr Welp, it took me 3 hours to get from Kirby/Main to the Heights. Had to go all the way south to bw8 just to get on a freeway, and then took 288 back north to i10. I10 was closed, so had to find a place to cross white oak bayou. All roads were flooded. Finally went up to 610, went east to i10, made a u turn the went 610 west to yale definitely white knuckled a lotta water. By far the most harrowing drive ive made in my 33 years on this planetMy God, you are only 33??? I could have swore you were an angry, bitter, get off my lawn 73 year old
September 19, 20196 yr 32 minutes ago, Honeysucklerose said: My God, you are only 33??? I could have swore you were an angry, bitter, get off my lawn 73 year old He has a long long future of calling ballgames over
September 19, 20196 yr 54 minutes ago, irishtexan said: I assume that little red blob will disappear like a fart in the wind as soon as it gets east of bee cave. aaaaaand, that's exactly what happened.
September 19, 20196 yr 7 hours later, I'm finally home. At one point, every exit on the Beltway from 59 to Generation Pkwy was blocked off because the entire frontage road was flooded with multiple cars stranded. White Oak Bayou looked like it did during Harvey. It felt like no matter where you tried to go, there was a random flood in a neighborhood or street. Crazy nuts.
September 19, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said: Welp, it took me 3 hours to get from Kirby/Main to the Heights. Had to go all the way south to bw8 just to get on a freeway, and then took 288 back north to i10. I10 was closed, so had to find a place to cross white oak bayou. All roads were flooded. Finally went up to 610, went east to i10, made a u turn the went 610 west to yale definitely white knuckled a lotta water. By far the most harrowing drive ive made in my 33 years on this planet Wait a minute, "Lake 288" was Ok to drive?
September 19, 20196 yr Also, on every highway I was on during that 7 hour period--59, i10, beltway, and 610--there were cars turning around and driving the wrong way because of flooding.
September 19, 20196 yr Water was flooding all of the surrounding streets around our office around 1 or 2. The rain let up for an hour or so and everything receded pretty quickly. They told us to go home around 4 and the drive from the Beltway to I-10 West was amazingly smooth. Sounds like it was much worse going East or South.
September 19, 20196 yr 6 minutes ago, J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. said: Wait a minute, "Lake 288" was Ok to drive? 288 headed north between bw8 and i10 was clear at 2pm
September 19, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, Honeysucklerose said: My God, you are only 33??? I could have swore you were an angry, bitter, get off my lawn 73 year old You thought he was one of armybrat's grandkids?
September 19, 20196 yr 3rd wettest storm in US history, behind Amelia (1978) and harvey may pass amelia for #2
September 19, 20196 yr Hope you Houston/E. Texas folks make it home safe & sound. Sounds like a total shitshow.
September 19, 20196 yr Probably already covered, but I'm not going back several pages... What a shitshow by HISD. I thought parents were pissed over Knoxville not letting out one year during a 2-inch snow.... What was the super/school board thinking?
September 19, 20196 yr 20 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: This is on the front-page of Weather.com, not sure where it's at. Looks like i10 off Washington in between 610 and 45 Edited September 19, 20196 yr by Pancho
September 19, 20196 yr 18 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: This is on the front-page of Weather.com, not sure where it's at. That's looking west from the footbridge across I-10 just west of TC Jester. The bridge in the distance is the diagonal railroad overpass. Was MUCH worse there during Allison. https://goo.gl/maps/b4Mh3ZEpZR1j4WCM7
September 19, 20196 yr I spend an hour at Westcott and Washington not moving before finding away over 1-10 on TC Jester. Exits from downtown are a miserable mess. Use Waze if you’re stuck.
September 19, 20196 yr I left downtown Houston at noon and it took an hour to get home to The Woodlands. Lots of morons driving slow with their flashers on. Drove out of the rain around Beltway 8.
September 19, 20196 yr 8 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said: Probably already covered, but I'm not going back several pages... What a shitshow by HISD. I thought parents were pissed over Knoxville not letting out one year during a 2-inch snow.... What was the super/school board thinking? What exactly did HISD do? The event was crazy nuts because 6 inches fell in 1 hour (giggity) according to Jeff Lindner. I mean, sure, you could blame HISD I guess, but then you'd also need to blame other school districts, community colleges, universities, and companies/corporations in downtown as well. The crazy part is just last night every weatherperson was saying that the bayous could handle what Houston was about to get because they were so low. Cut to 12 hours later, and it's damn near Harvey like over the city. One of the reasons I got stuck was because I went out at 8am to workout because the radar said it wouldn't get bad until around 10 or 1030am. The problem is, it got bad an hour earlier and for longer than people thought.
September 19, 20196 yr 2 minutes ago, Pancho said: What exactly did HISD do? The event was crazy nuts because 6 inches fell in 1 hour (giggity) according to Jeff Lindner. I mean, sure, you could blame HISD I guess, but then you'd also need to blame other school districts, community colleges, universities, and companies/corporations in downtown as well. The crazy part is just last night every weatherperson was saying that the bayous could handle what Houston was about to get because they were so low. Cut to 12 hours later, and it's damn near Harvey like over the city. One of the reasons I got stuck was because I went out at 8am to workout because the radar said it wouldn't get bad until around 10 or 1030am. The problem is, it got bad an hour earlier and for longer than people thought. I guess I would err on the side of caution. From what I could gather on Twitter, most of the districts around Houston closed yesterday. Sure, it probably wasn't going to be this bad. Problem is, if,on the 10% chance it gets to worst case scenario, you're putting a lot of kids in danger.
September 19, 20196 yr Just now, Knoxtnhorn said: I guess I would err on the side of caution. From what I could gather on Twitter, most of the districts around Houston closed yesterday. Sure, it probably wasn't going to be this bad. Problem is, if,on the 10% chance it gets to worst case scenario, you're putting a lot of kids in danger. I wouldn't say most. The districts NE and SE of Houston closed because that's where the radar said the storms would linger. Those are your typical flooding areas around Kingwood, Lake Jackson, Galveston area. Why would HISD close because those districts closed when it wasn't expected to do anything but rain a little in the city? And I don't consider anything east of Barbers Hill "Houston area" and they closed for sure because that area and out near Winnie got nearly 30 inches. As I said earlier, this surprised a lot of people because it wasn't expected to do this. The college where I teach closed the campuses on the NE side of Houston early, early this morning. Every other campus was open. But then it started and people were seeing how bad it was getting, and every 30 minutes we'd get an email saying another campus was closing, then another, then another before the entire community college system was closed no matter where you were in town.
September 19, 20196 yr Popular Post 6 hours ago, dirtonia said: The Cajun navy is out and making water rescues. I can post contact numbers here if that would be helpful. Unfortunately the efforts have been greatly slowed by cramps. 6 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said: Heights completely underwater Quintessential Houston in 3 words. Edited September 19, 20196 yr by clapclapclap I like how The Weather Channel keeps showing before and after photos that are actually different places.
September 19, 20196 yr Popular Post So after my company started sending people home, a coworker of mine who takes the metro in from cypress left to catch the bus. He got to the NW transit center at 610 and old Katy road and they decided to stop metro city wide. He and a bunch of other people were stranded. I decided to wait until a big line of storms rolled through to leave. I figured I would go and pick him up and take him to his car since it was out my way. Google traffic said that taking 10 from downtown would take 1h45m to get to him. Memorial would take 45 minutes. So I hopped on Memorial and as I crossed buffalo bayou it was out of its banks and half way up the police officers monument. As I approached Waugh I saw cars stopped and figured water was on the road so I jumped off on Jackson Hill to zigzag my way through Rice Military. There was a lot of stalled cars and high water. Looked like this:People who don’t drive through that neighborhood are unaware that instead of storm drains there are ditches. So cars drive off into them and we’re stuck. One small dicked jackass did just that in his dually then decided to attach his wench to a power pole. Nope, I wasn’t sticking around for that disaster. Jackass. I finally made it out of Rice Military and knew from Harvey they best way to get to him would be from Washington where it turns into Old Katy. I had forgotten that during Harvey both Old Katy and Old Hempstead under the train bridges were flooded. So I had to turn back, zigzag back through Rice Military up TC jester to Cottage Grove. Here was 10 at TC:And of course Cottage Grove looked like it had during Harvey:But finally I made it to Old Hempstead on the other side of the train tracks. Here is 17-18’ of water under that bridge:Post Oak was completely packed with cars so I parked at Northwest Mall and had my coworker walk over to meet me. He had to go through several spots that were thigh high water and I am sure that was avoiding even deeper water. But I got his old Venezuelan ass home safe. I had my camera with me but I am just so goddamn sick of flooding in Houston and all the bullshit that goes with it that I didn’t attempt to shoot quality shots like I did with Harvey. Fucking over this shit.
September 19, 20196 yr Took me 4 hours to get the 9 miles from downtown to my house. Fuck this but glad the house is dry
September 19, 20196 yr 15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said: I agree. It's a bad idea to attach your wench to a power pole. While attaching your power pole to a wench can oftentimes be a good idea. Just make sure the wench isn't crazy.
September 19, 20196 yr Hang in there fellas, I was born and raised there in Spring/Klein/Tomball area, from 71-91 then 98-01, I miss home but not the flooding. It seems much worse now.
September 20, 20196 yr You must have just beaten it Swayze. My wife abandoned here car on Memorial between Waugh And Montrose right at 4PM. Hope it didn't go up much more. Her friend was 5 or 6 cats ahead and made it through to Waugh but one car between them hesitated and stalled and that was it. Looking east toward downtown
September 20, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, Patricio Swayze said: I had my camera with me but I am just so goddamn sick of flooding in Houston and all the bullshit that goes with it that I didn’t attempt to shoot quality shots like I did with Harvey. Fucking over this shit. I sorta jokingly asked on my fb today, so why do people live in Houston? Half got ticked off at me and blah blah it’s our home blah blah. Yeah I get it, but this shit happens all the fucking time now. Aren’t people sick of dealing with it? Yes it sucks that people’s homes are damaged, but fuck I would be so sick of dealing with it. Others agreed with me and questioned themselves why they continue to live there.
September 20, 20196 yr These pics are crazy. Keep em coming boys. Hope the water subsides by the morning commute tomorrow
September 20, 20196 yr 15 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said: I sorta jokingly asked on my fb today, so why do people live in Houston? Half got ticked off at me and blah blah it’s our home blah blah. Yeah I get it, but this shit happens all the fucking time now. Aren’t people sick of dealing with it? Yes it sucks that people’s homes are damaged, but fuck I would be so sick of dealing with it. Others agreed with me and questioned themselves why they continue to live there. I have a good job. Otherwise I wouldn't live here.
September 20, 20196 yr 17 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said: I sorta jokingly asked on my fb today, so why do people live in Houston? Half got ticked off at me and blah blah it’s our home blah blah. Yeah I get it, but this shit happens all the fucking time now. Aren’t people sick of dealing with it? Yes it sucks that people’s homes are damaged, but fuck I would be so sick of dealing with it. Others agreed with me and questioned themselves why they continue to live there. $$$$$$$
September 20, 20196 yr 3 minutes ago, Okie State said: I have a good job. Otherwise I wouldn't live here. This, this is correct.
September 20, 20196 yr Or you live somewhere that doesn’t flood in the greater Houston area and don’t have to go to work on days like today.
September 20, 20196 yr I waded 4 miles from an abandoned car today to pick up my son at daycare, then walk him home. Just to make sure he wouldn’t be stuck with parents stranded and have to spend the night at daycare. It was unnecessary. Houston started drying up and my wife was home 90 minutes after us with just slow traffic . Today fucking sucked. Bad. But if I have to do this once a year for what Houston gives us, it’s not even a question.
September 20, 20196 yr 55 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said: I sorta jokingly asked on my fb today, so why do people live in Houston? Half got ticked off at me and blah blah it’s our home blah blah. Yeah I get it, but this shit happens all the fucking time now. Aren’t people sick of dealing with it? Yes it sucks that people’s homes are damaged, but fuck I would be so sick of dealing with it. Others agreed with me and questioned themselves why they continue to live there. Thank god I’m leaving. Over this and it’s getting worse.
September 20, 20196 yr 31 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said: Exactly. Id take a 30% pay cut if i moved to austin My pay cut would be 100%.
September 20, 20196 yr I am pretty much only here because of family and job at this point. Between the flooding (4 major floods in the past 4 years) and the constant highway construction/traffic, I am just sick of it.
September 20, 20196 yr 21 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said: I waded 4 miles from an abandoned car today to pick up my son at daycare, then walk him home. Just to make sure he wouldn’t be stuck with parents stranded and have to spend the night at daycare. It was unnecessary. Houston started drying up and my wife was home 90 minutes after us with just slow traffic . Today fucking sucked. Bad. But if I have to do this once a year for what Houston gives us, it’s not even a question. My wife took 2.5 hours to get to daycare (Shepherd/I10 area) from her work in the Galleria area. I got home in 35 minutes by taking BW8 & 290 back from west Houston. I have a work meeting at UT tomorrow and with HISD cancelling classes, she's gonna be stuck at home alone with two toddlers until I get back at 7. Yeesh.
September 20, 20196 yr http://<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">10:17 am to 6:55 pm. $685.29 fare. <a href="https://twitter.com/Uber?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@Uber</a>, your tip limit of $100 is lame. When someone fights Imelda with you all day, they deserve at least twice that. <a href="https://t.co/bRCdS04R3t">pic.twitter.com/bRCdS04R3t</a></p>— Ethan Bellamy (@EthanHBellamy) <a href="https://twitter.com/EthanHBellamy/status/1174836739774377985?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">September 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Edited September 20, 20196 yr by whoopspat
September 20, 20196 yr 4 minutes ago, whoopspat said: My wife took 2.5 hours to get to daycare (Shepherd/I10 area) from her work in the Galleria area. I got home in 35 minutes by taking BW8 & 290 back from west Houston. I have a work meeting at UT tomorrow and with HISD cancelling classes, she's gonna be stuck at home alone with two toddlers until I get back at 7. Yeesh. Yeah. Our daycare is cancelled. My wife’s job is not. We will be flipping a coin in the AM.
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