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Same for me, the streets are covered with water that is almost up to my knees. (yes I walked in it, XD < I was curious) It's slowly making it's way up to the house. I think if it gets any higher, my family and I are going to start carrying some furniture and whatever they want upstairs. I don't think that it will flood the house, but if it keeps raining we'll having atleast a few inches inside.
There is a creek nearby that overflowed, and the homes of the people that live there have already flooded. I hope that they're all ok over there. I'm mostly worried about the constant tornado warnings. We can handle the water. If the house floods, it is what it is. But a tornado could a be a serious problem since we don't have a basement or anything. But I'm sure everything will be fine!
I hope you guys experiencing Harvey are keeping dry and staying safe!
I have lived through a flooded house before, and it is a horrible experience. You need to understand something... you actually need to understand something important about the water that might enter your home. It is not relatively clean rain water, it is actually something called "gray water," which is a combination of rain water, sewage coming up from the flooded mains, and all those chemicals and debris that are on the streets, parking lots and flooded businesses. The water is a potential health threat: I caught mono from it in 1998 just by helping clean up debris from a flood. I hadn't even been in the water. So, please keep in mind that clothing and furniture will be soaking up the bacteria, viruses, feces, and assorted chemicals that are floating in the gray water. This means you need to be VERY careful about what you try to save from the debris once it's been submerged. Underwear should be thrown out. The same goes for any clothing that you cannot soak in bleach. Also, think about the wood furniture that you have: it will be soaking up water, too. You'll need to clean it and disinfect it before moving it to your new home (or into storage). Finally, this is a warning about any electronics left in the house. Even if they are above the water line (our home got knee-deep water, so a lot of computers and TVs were not technically underwater), if you have to abandon the property and will not be running the Air Conditioning in the building, try to get them out of the house as fast as you can. Once this storm passes, the humidity is going to skyrocket. And if your empty house has no AC, the humidity will damage all your electronics in a matter of days.
I strongly suggest that if you think you might flood, walk through the house and take photos of your key items, including serial numbers and model numbers. After you have photos, take a video and narrate it, pointing out items and when you bought them. You may have heard this advice before about the video, but what you may not have heard is that your insurance adjuster is NOT going to sit through the video. They want photos. So you should have both.
I hope you are all okay. So far, I've been luck. Still have power, supplies and no flooding in our neighborhood.
My best to you all!
...+1. This is something many people (even in the media and government) never think about.
And remember the insurance adjuster is not your friend or on your side their job is to make sure that you are paid the least amount possiable and disallow items.
My cousin had a handmade bed from the early 1700's had been handed down from family member to family member since it was made the first question the adjuster asked was what company manufactured it and what was the original cost and if we had the original receipt or a copy of it after we reiterated the beds history it was Oh sorry that would need to have an antique policy to be covered and isn't covered under your homeowners/renters policy
Just checking in to see how everyone in Texas is doing. Stay safe everyone.
You are right.Adjusters are NOT your friends. We had to fight tooth-and-nail (and SCREAM at them on the phone, call them liars to their faces when they claimed they hadn't received documents and photos (I whipped out my record book and told them exactly who had signed for the papers, at which point I told them they were either liars or idiots, and I'm willing to believe both)). And they took 4 months or more to pay off the full amount we were owed. If my wife's dad hadn't loaned us $10k to get by on, we would have had to take one of their low-ball offers. As it was, we could afford to wait them out and fight for every penny they owed us.
The rain is slowing down, and a few stores are opening up in NW Houston. Things at my house are okay (never lost power, still have lots of supplies), but there is flooding all around us. This has devastated the city.
That's good to hear. I just saw a news report where one of the hospitals in Houston was trying to get approval to evacuate some of their patients because flooding had interrupted some of their services and was impacting patient care. I've seen some pretty devestating photos of some of the Houston area.
We are getting some very minor rain from the very outter reaches of the storm and yet there are areas getting enough rain for minor flooding just from the amount of rain so quickly. I can imagine it must be 1000s of times worse in Houston. I've survived devastating floods a time or two and you never know how bad things are going to be until the flood waters recede so you can look at the damage. Keeping my fingers crossed that everyone makes it through with minimal damage.
The first forecasts I saw said that Corpus Christi was going to get the worst of it, but from what I've seen in the last day or two, it really looks like Houston is getting the worst damage from the storm. Downtown and the southern part of the city look practically under water from the pictures I've seen.
Thanks for the warning. I'll make sure to take alot of pictures. We've already moved most of our moveable belongings upstairs. If anything gets wet downstairs, we'll probably toss it. Any clothes are definitely going out first. Luckily the water had time to drain when the rain stopped, but it still could happen. It's crazy, it pours down for about an hour or two, floods the street and starts coming up the driveway and to the door, and then the rain stops. Depending on how long the rain stops, the water drains. Last night the water that was coming up the driveway was almost to my thighs. But this morning when I got up, the water had drained so much that you could see the street again.
Are you serious?! Ok, thanks for the warning
Oh yeah and it got worse before it got better
I'm seeing and hearing about a lot of help for you folks down in Texas and the surounding states.
It's finally dying down. We still have some threatened levies and cresting rivers to worry about, but for us, at least, the worst is probably past. Checking around, though, it seems that a LOT of my friends and co-workers weren't as lucky.. I know of at least four who have multiple feet of water in their houses and a couple more who lost their vehicles. And we haven't been able to check on my mom's house since she rode out the storm at my brother's place, and while that neighborhood hasn't flooded as far as we know, all the surrounding areas did.
And just as a historical side note, today is the day that Katrina made landfall (august 29, 2005.) Harvey was actually a more powerful storm when it hit, but fortunately most of the wind damage was far to the west of Houston, so almost all of our damage will be from flooding. Even so, I've heard estimates that the economic impactas will be as high as $150 billion. .
Lost power for about 24 hours -- temp was okay, but MAN, was it humid in the house. It's back up now.
The rain has slowed down, but this town is still a mess, and LOTS of roads are unpassable.
Not to mention that a huge number of cars have been flooded, so even if your roads are clear, a lot of folks will still be traped. They're saying on the local news that at least several hundred thousand cars are under water, and the number could be as many as half a million. And they won't know until the waters go down how many of those still had people in them. In many areas they don't expect the water to go down for days or even weeks, so it's going to be a long time before the actual cost of Harvey is really known. We've had several Blackhawks flying really low over our neighborhood this afternoon and my guess is that they're scanning the bayous, backyards and pools for the bodies of people who got swept up at the height of the storm.
Feeling for you all down there. We get everything here in the Midwest- tornadoes have their own season, and it lasts for 8 months (and sometimes they strike when it's NOT tornado season, like they did last February.) We've had two major flood events in the past few years here in Illinois. One was supposedly a hundred year event, but most locals agreed it was closer to a five hundred. It was just insane. We were one of the lucky ones. Our hundred year old farmhouse sits above most of the property with good drainage around it. But it rained so hard for so long, that there were no places left for the water to go. We ended up with a half an inch in our cellar. Most people had six feet or more. Fields became lakes, and so many of the rivers overflowed. Wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Praying for your safety and well being, and an end to the rain!
Remember that when you are able to get out to keep an eye out for all the ill tempered nasties that normally live under rocks or holes in the ground (assrt. snakes scorpions etc,)
Very good advice!
Tornadoes are also a threat here. Most of the city was under a watch or warning much of the past four days.
Thanks one and all for the well wishes. Now it's time to clean up and get back to work.
I'm POOPED.
I think that, for me, the worst is probably over. The rain has stopped (at least for now), I filed my insurance claim (leaking roof). And the power is back on.
I'm just POOPED.
I did not take the photo, nor is this a 3D render, but I thought I would share this image. I created it (based on a news photo) using Akvis Sketch, and am posting it at my blog along with an update on how we're doing after this horrible storm. I just thought some of you might be interested in seeing it.
My house is directly south of the Addicks and Barker resevoirs, the ones that they had to start releasing water from, even though they knew it would flood some neighborhoods, so we've been on watch for two days as the rising water slowly trickled in, filling the storm drains to capacity and then some. By yesterday afternoon the water was three feet deep in the street just a block and a half to the west of my house... higher than it rose during the height of the storm. Two blocks north, just about everything is flooded and they're saying that many of those homes will have several feet of water in them for weeks. And ten blocks to the south, they were literally evacuating people by helicopter.
And yet, by sheer fluke of how the storm bands hit and how the drainage systems run, the rising water never quite made it to us. I'm going back to work tomorrow, though a lot of my co-workers will be telecommuting because the roads they'd have to use aren't clear or their cars were submerged, and I know that at least one of them (and his entire family) were among those who had to be rescued from a house that became an island. And we still don't know about my mom's house. Like mmitchell, I'm worn out, but until last night, I don't think my wife had slept except in short spurts for the last week. Today I let her sleep 'til noon.
Hurricanes suck.
Yes they do.
I'm glad you all are at least surviving fairly well. I'm beginning to get conerned about my old college best buddy who lives on Carlota Court (the one just off Beechwood). Before the storm he said he was staying, had lots of supplies, and was 18 inches above the 100 year floodplain. I hope that was enough but although I emailed him I haven't heard from since the storm.
And as if one wasn't enough, it looks like there may be another major hurricane (Irma) impacting the US in 10 days or so.
Yup. I'm in the Addicks reservoir (or was). We were evac'd by air boat. When they called the voluntary evac, we loaded up the car and tried to get out well before they time they'd told us to get out by, but water was already too deep at the front of the neighborhood, so we had to turn back and that is the only way in or out. The next morning the water had covered all the streets and the air boats came around picking up people that hadn't gotten out yet, so we shut off our breaker and hopped in. Fortunately, we had family that could get to us at the staging center we were taken to, so we're with them now.
I really hate to be pessimistic, but that is *right* off of Brays bayou if it's the one I'm thinking of, and it's *in* the 100 yr flood plain and certainly the 500 year. There's a good chance he was evacuated and doesn't have access to the internet. I think most of those folks were taken to George R. Brown (which means if they aren't going home, they should be going to NRG Stadium shortly). Cell towers are *packed* right now and folks are being inundated with calls and emails and texts from loved ones checking on them.
I think Harvey is in the Carolinas.
It's close but not the one you are probably thinking of. That one has house numbers in the 4 digits. His house is on a short cul de sac a little north of there and that runs off Beechnut Street. It is about 2 blocks east of where Beechnut Street intersects Bissonnet Street.
Yes, that's the west side of Meyerland. The entire area was evacuated. It's just north of Brays Bayou. Put his address in here. He's on the border of the 100 and 500 yr plain http://www.harriscountyfemt.org/
Oh wow! That's so scary but I'm so glad you got out ok. Have you been able to get back to your home? Do you know the extent of the damage?
My heart goes out to you guys in this situation. I'm praying for the missing people and pets and for those who've lost their homes. It's maddening to be so far away and not be able to help. We're donating some money though and trying to keep up with what else we can do from here. It's not much, but we're doing what we can. You guys stay safe and please let us know if there's anything else people can do to help.
Yep thanks for the info and links. Before the storm he had said that he was 18 inches above the 100 year flood plain. So he was right about on the borderline between the 100 year flood plain and the 500 year flood plain.There is also a 9000 block of Carlota Court that runs from Reamer Street to Kuldell Drive, is closer to Brays Bayou, and of course well within the 100 year flood plain.
I did find some NOAA post Harvey imagery of the area ( https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/harvey/index.html ) His house is on the left side of the right cul de sac. But it is hard to know how much flooding there was and how much the water had gone down by the time the pictures were taken.
wow.... that's a lot of water..
same is happening as monsoon rains cause havoc in India, Nepal, Bangladesh where over 1,200 people have died and has affected over 40 million people.. In Bangladesh it's reported two-thirds of the country was under water.
that is a lot of water!
We won't have access to our neighborhood for a few weeks we're told. The water at the front of the neighborhood is chest deep (or was when we left). Right now they're coordinating folks with flat-bottomed boats taking people in for emergency supplies. I know one neighbor had to go in to get a prosthetic leg.
Those are definitely more current pictures. Looking at the Addicks area, that's how it looked Wednesday on but not before, so flooding around Meyerland had gone down already, but you're right. There's no way to tell how much. The cell towers are still packed though and LOTS of calls and texts aren't going through at all.
Yup. I have a lot of friends and neighbors from India that moved to Houston for the similar climate :/ So they're worrying about their own homes and their families back there still :/
They said on the news tonight that Harvey dumped 1.5 times the capacity of Chesapeake Bay. That is a hell of a lot of water! And the state Attorney General has over 600 complaints of price gouging just in the Dallas/Ft Worth Metroplex over the last couple of days. And it's hard to find gas up here (mostly because of everyone freaking out and afraid there will be a gas shortage, so they all made a run on the gas stations and caused any shortage that might have been coming to hit harder and faster)