Houston caught hell. I don’t care how good your drainage systems are, if the skies dump sixteen to twenty inches of rain in a matter of hours, you’re gonna flood. It just can’t run off fast enough. When you add the natural ups and downs of terrain, low spots on the streets and freeways, you get massive problems. Most of our Houston office staff as well as station personnel in the area couldn’t get to work.
Here at home we got over four and a half inches. The ditches filled up but I saw no flooding. Predictions have several of the local streams reaching flood stages, but certainly NOT the record-breaking levels of a couple of weeks ago that shut down I-10 at the Sabine River. I understand that I-10 in Houston was shut down, but there they have a lot of low spots, underpasses where drainage depends on electric pumps that just can’t keep up with the volumes of rain that fell there.
It’s just weather. Not the first time this has happened, and won’t be the last.
