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Old 05-26-2015, 04:28 PM
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I am fine! We were actually out in Central Texas all weekend about 30 miles south of Wimberly where the worst of the flooding was out there. We were kind of boxed in by flooding on roads all around us for a day or so, but didn't really have anywhere we needed to be other than out at the ranch, so it wasn't a big deal.

We drove home to Houston yesterday afternoon and managed to roll all the way over just ahead of the big line of storms. We got home and had about an hour of decent weather, then everything went to hades. We ended up with about 4.5 inches of rain between about 9pm and 1am, had tons of lightning around and the power went out twice. There were tornado warnings, severe storms warnings, and flash flood warnings coming in just about non-stop for a few hours. But we aren't really in a flood prone area, so we had no problems at the house either.

I waited until later to come into work this morning, and there were still flooded out cars in the middle of some of the streets right by my office. The area around my office got over 10 inches of rain in about 4-5 hours and apparently the water was pretty deep on the roads. I am one of three people who made it to the office today, and I am not looking forward to the drive home. It was way worse just east of my office down towards downtown, but at least for now, it sounds like there were relatively few deaths. Lots of flooded cars and houses though and we will be dealing with swarms of mosquitos for weeks to come.

We have a 30-40% chance of rain every day for the rest of the week. Hopefully nothing as bad as we had last night, but it won't take much rain to make the situation go south again if we get a storm moving slowly this week.
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