Hurricane Harvey

[russellsmojo]

Any news or updates from South Texas folks? Praying for all you guys. It looks crazy to watch on tv.


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[rdlangston13]

I'm at work but my wife and son are in Katy. Son is staying with my inlaws for the weekend since my wife has to work. Hospitals don't shut down for hurricanes. She is on the recovery team at the hospital so once the storm hits and passes she will have to go in and possibly stay for up to 3 days. When she left last night she took an air mattress, pillow, extra clothes and scrubs in case she got flooded in over night and had to stay. I talked to her earlier and she said they keep getting waves of medium severity storms and the power flickered on and off all night. Her parents house and our house lost power during the night but I think it has since come back on. Our main concern is flooding from the rain since we are predicted to get somewhere in the neighborhood of 20"+


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[deerfield]

David - Are you currently on an oil rig? What are the conditions? - Stuart

[Woody929]

#fishintthestreets (again)

[Broke Pilot]

I'm stuck in Dallas at my Lear recurrent training but Linz is holding down the fort in Conroe.only got a few sprinkles until this morning. She says it's steady but not a hard rain. I have a feeling by Monday things around my area and down to Houston will have changed. The Sugarland airport is closed due to water on the runway (it floods pretty easy)

[rdlangston13]

David - Are you currently on an oil rig? What are the conditions? - Stuart

Conditions are very calm where I am but I'm a long way away from where the storm hit. I'm basically straight East of Venice Louisiana south of Mississippi. Wife says we keep getting tornado warnings and her best friends town(Rosenberg) is under mandatory evacuation do to the Brazil's River flooding. Last year it crested at 54.7 ft and it was pretty catastrophic, right now it is forecast to crest at 55 ft.


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[Broke Pilot]

If anyone down that way needs to bail out, I've got room up here in Conroe! Just call or text 24/7. I finally made it back from Dallas.
936-662-6234

[rdlangston13]

We may have water in our house by morning. Up to the back door of our neighbor 2 houses down.


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[Broke Pilot]

Stay safe... if your wife needs anything let us know! Y'all are welcome up here.

[twkoehn]

Thoughts and prayers to all being affected by the storm. Hope everyone stays safe!!!!

[trayson]

So, my family is in the Tomball area of Houston. They are WELL prepared with gas/food/generators. it's mid calf deep in the yard of my Mom/Stepdad, and it might get into the house. My sister's house is a few hundred feet away and so far they're doing fine. they are keeping in good spirits (gasping because they lost power during Game of Thrones). But my sister's hose is a bit higher than Mom's. Their pool might soon be joined by the marshlands that are forming around Mom's place.

This is my step dad standing in what's supposed to be his yard, but looks like a Florida marshland. My brother in law ventured out to the main street and said it's deep... they'll be staying put.

http://i.imgur.com/wG3VIPm.png


When I was down in Houston last month, I was able to go out on Lake Houston with one of the members of the Supra/moomba FB group, Scott. He has an SA that normally is moored on a lift. His house is waterfront.
He shared a couple pics on FB...

He took the boat off as access to his lift is under water:
http://i.imgur.com/YyoMdTb.jpg

And this is his back yard with Lake Houston starting to swallow it up. He's going to be moving stuff to higher ground and hopefully the roads are passable enough to have them even be able to get there to help him out.
http://i.imgur.com/2Labdje.jpg

[trayson]

The water in Tomball TX where my family is has subsided a couple inches. it's enough for their septic system to work again.



Got an update from Scott on Lake Houston. He had to move his waverunner out of the boat slip and has it tied to a tree floating free. The water is about to the house, and they're moving stuff in the house higher if possible. The water's definitely got a LOT higher there. Pic of the same boat house:

http://i.imgur.com/OTEI7Bg.jpg

[rdlangston13]

The situation at Lake Houston is likely to get worse before it improves, last year Lake Conroe set a record on tax day releasing 33,000 cfs from the dam into the San Jacinto river. Today they have smashed that record by releasing 75,000 cfs from the dam. All of that water goes to Lake Houston. My dad is trapped in his condo on Lake Conroe, he has some ply wood across his glass patio door to keep the waves from the lake directly impacting the glass. So far they have only had water from seepage make it inside. The parking lot is completely flooded and his dock and lift is destroyed. Coast Guard is performing helicopter rescues at their condo.

[rdlangston13]

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My house courtesy of a neighbor last night. Luckily it never got higher and we stayed dry

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Dads back patio door at lake Conroe

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Parking lot at his condo complex

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Inside the gate is the condo pool


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[BigOrange]

Prayers offered for you all and all in that situation.......

[Broke Pilot]

Lake Conroe is going to be destroyed for a while to come... there's going to be a lot of water hazards out there.
David, hope your dad makes out ok over there. Anyone that needs a dry-ish place to be is still welcome at my house! And I've got plenty of storage space if anyone needs to move a boat wavrunner car etc...

[rdlangston13]

Lake Conroe is going to be destroyed for a while to come... there's going to be a lot of water hazards out there.
David, hope your dad makes out ok over there. Anyone that needs a dry-ish place to be is still welcome at my house! And I've got plenty of storage space if anyone needs to move a boat wavrunner car etc...

Last I heard the water is going down. I think Lake Houston is going to fair far worse than Conroe with 79,000 cfs being dumped into it right now. So horrible for everyone on both lakes.


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[csm]

Did some boat wrangling on Lake Conroe yesterday. Our lakehouse I/O got loose, windshield completely smashed and frame bent, and quite a bit of fiberglass damage. The first pic is my truck in a neighbors driveway with the trailer in the FRONT yard to get to the boat.

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Right after we got that boat out, a neighbor flagged us down because the boat below had gotten loose and floated up to their back patio. We had to walk the boat back out and tie it off between two docks. When we got to the docks, we were in chest deep water while standing on the actual pier.
Crazy. Nothing compared to what's going on in Houston, but an interesting day none the less.

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[trayson]

When I was down in Houston last month, I was able to go out on Lake Houston with one of the members of the Supra/moomba FB group, Scott. He has an SA that normally is moored on a lift. His house is waterfront.
He shared a couple pics on FB...

He took the boat off as access to his lift is under water:
http://i.imgur.com/YyoMdTb.jpg



So, update on Scott. Water is over their deck and he's taking the kitty and heading to higher ground. He did as much as he could working through the night to put stuff as high as possible in the house, but it's not time for him to get out. Yes, he was able to get his Supra SA out of the slip before it got too high. And he has his waverunner tied to a tree so it can float up as water rises.

Pic from this morning, where you can see his same boathouse as above:
http://i.imgur.com/u3ljnGb.jpg

When I was there last month, the water level was easily a couple feet below the floor of the boathouse. :-(

[sivs1]

So, update on Scott. Water is over their deck and he's taking the kitty and heading to higher ground. He did as much as he could working through the night to put stuff as high as possible in the house, but it's not time for him to get out. Yes, he was able to get his Supra SA out of the slip before it got too high. And he has his waverunner tied to a tree so it can float up as water rises.

Pic from this morning, where you can see his same boathouse as above:
http://i.imgur.com/u3ljnGb.jpg

When I was there last month, the water level was easily a couple feet below the floor of the boathouse. :-(

Thanks for the update, Scott hoping for the Best. Trayson how is your family doing?

[trayson]

Thanks for the update, Scott hoping for the Best. Trayson how is your family doing?

My family is just fine. their water has receeded. there are some neighboring communities where the creek has flooded houses, but they got lucky and things are okay for them.

[rdlangston13]

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This is Jim Grants house, he is a friend and also the GM of Rinkers Boat World who sold us or Mojo this year. He and his wife just purchased this house and their official move in day was yesterday. He told me they already had about 60% of their stuff moved in so I guess it's good that they were not 100% moved in. These pictures were taken remotely via their security system. The system cut out so they have no idea if it got high after this was taken.


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[wolfeman131]

awful . . .

I don't like seeing any of this and hope you all stay safe. I saw your fb post about your wife & her staying at work and agree that she is certainly a hero!

[trayson]

Scott posted up on FB a quick video showing water still draining OUT of his house. Based on the waterline that I could see on his wall, the water in his house was 12" to 18" deep. It's not that high anymore (must be below house level right now) but more rain is forecasted. :-(

[rdlangston13]

Here are some pictures some
friends have sent me

I10 in Winnie, TX, east of Houston.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170830/a3fc2281476035c432d834c4b0c57b66.jpg

Some shots from Brett Howell taken around his house near down town https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170830/c826e996ec3f2a07557d5294ec742f46.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170830/3c07f4e7125573c02529c2ab98a7ae15.jpg

This shows the swelling of buffalo bayou over a 3 day period https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170830/c26bef3c9087b4f503965fc4a4cc9202.jpg


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[BrettLee3232]

Geez la weez that's horrible


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[kaneboats]

Prayers for all those affected.

[moombadaze]

so much destuction, some of the photos are just hard to fathom. Prayers to all dealing with this. and for Heidi-one of many out of sight hero's-cant image her having her husband out of town, and away from her child with the threat of flooding where he is at-my hat is off for that girl.

[rdlangston13]

so much destuction, some of the photos are just hard to fathom. Prayers to all dealing with this. and for Heidi-one of many out of sight hero's-cant image her having her husband out of town, and away from her child with the threat of flooding where he is at-my hat is off for that girl.

She's a rock star for sure. Luckily her parents stayed in constant communication with her as the waters were rising so she didn't have to wonder how they were too
Much. Just got some pictures from my father of his condo on lake Conroe now that the water has come down.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170831/4243d8cc9c4a4aeb9df632fa1239c5aa.jpg
You can see the bunks on the dock to the left. That is where his LSV normally is but thankfully it was at the shop getting some work done so it was spared!

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[rdlangston13]

A couple more. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170831/3c752f55c5f4e34f1142683b2fc5c20a.jpg

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Any one who is familiar with Houston probably has heard of Gallery Furniture or Mattress Mac. This man started selling mattresses out of a tent 30+ years ago and now owns two of best furniture stores in the city. As soon as this started he immediately opened his stores to refugees letting them sleep on the display beds and use his stores like their homes. Even set up and area in the warehouse for people to bring their pets with them. He is also house a national guard company and pulled mattresses down from inventory to put on the floor once all the displays were full. His trucks have been tasked with retrieving survivors and bring them back to his stores so he can house them. Mattress Mac already had a reputation for being a good honest business man and I told Heidi we can not longer buy furniture from anyone else (our living room furniture and bed room set already came from Gallery Furniture). What an exceptional citizen and human being!


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[Darter]

Any one who is familiar with Houston probably has heard of Gallery Furniture or Mattress Mac. This man started selling mattresses out of a tent 30+ years ago and now owns two of best furniture stores in the city. As soon as this started he immediately opened his stores to refugees letting them sleep on the display beds and use his stores like their homes. Even set up and area in the warehouse for people to bring their pets with them. He is also house a national guard company and pulled mattresses down from inventory to put on the floor once all the displays were full. His trucks have been tasked with retrieving survivors and bring them back to his stores so he can house them. Mattress Mac already had a reputation for being a good honest business man and I told Heidi we can not longer buy furniture from anyone else (our living room furniture and bed room set already came from Gallery Furniture). What an exceptional citizen and human being!


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That is a fantastic story of a true neighbor... talk about giving back and using what you have to help out.

[trayson]

I've been following Brock and all the guys at Doomswell on their instagram.

during the peak of the flooding, Brock the owner posted up an offer to take in a family into his personal home.

The other day they went out with a bunch of Kayaks and SUP's and rescued a bunch of people and pets that were stranded in the flooding.

Then they were out yesterday delivering food and assistance to families and they worked on helping with demo in 17 homes that had water damage.

I couldn't be more proud of the Doomswell crew out there helping their community. #HoustonStrong #TexasStrong #SurfDifferent