I'm surprised prescient marketers haven't pushed 36-inch Hurricane Rain Gages. Seems like a natural product for the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.
Quiet a bit is piped in from the Colorado River, Owens Valley, and California Aqueducts. But eventually might be necessary to float-in icebergs.
There is a drain under the sidewalk and it was plugged up with leaves and trash. Opened that up and solved the problem.
But there is coffee and my house guest made blackberry pastries.
Chloe, the only thing wrong with that picture is getting there. 85-90% of the roads and highways are closed in Houston.
It is still raining here at my house.
Yesterday they were showing 32-40 inches of water across Houston. Now they are forecasting another 12 inches today. It is a mess and not going to get any better for another couple of days. Shelters set up for 5k people already have twice that many people in them.
Fun, fun, fun.
And it ain't over yet.
Three Trillion Gallons of water has fallen on Houston since this started.
Still retrieving people out of flooded neighborhoods all over the city and the focus in moving to northern towns and where the holding lakes in the western part of town are releasing water. Now water is coming over the spillways. Every river, creek, and bayou is out of its banks and most if not all are over record levels.
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Of the 16 boats we sent down, 14 are still in service. One motor was burnt out in water that was too shallow but flowing way too fast to shut the motor down. Another hit something and cracked the lower end and bent a stainless steel prop. We sent an extra dozen props with them. Half of those have been used. Roads between here and there are flooded so we can't resupply them.
More coffee is available.
