Not like things are getting worse

if they do it is even worst!

keeping the remainees stocked up with food and water.

fruitless base on the pic in the OP

The one-story houses are 2/3 under water, but the 2-story ones aren't. In that neighborhood, look to see if there's light-colored siding above brickwork to spot the 2nd floor.

It also pays to notice some of the video shots, too--there are areas where you see brown going up to the base of the house (flooded) but others where you see green around the house (unflooded) and some where you can see the grass through the floodwaters (a foot or less of water, probably). In a lot of the shots you can't see the base of the house, but the water's brown up to what you can see so they're within a couple of blocks of the bayou. When people say "waded through waist high waters" that's the highest, and that's going to be at street level.

TC was rescued last Sunday from about 5' of floodwater. When we gutted parts of TC's house last week inside in one part there'd only been 6" of water; in lower parts of the first floor there had been about 2 feet of water; the house was 6" above the surrounding ground (so the garage had 2 1/2 feet of water), but everything sloped down a few feet (so the street was at maybe 5 feet of water, maybe more). Her 2nd floor was, obviously, untouched, and in fact we left the tv on the wall and the stuff on the counters because it was untouched. She was rescued because she was without power and there no was no way to know when the waters would subside.

It's a rather complicated mixed bag.

will keep the water level high for another 2 weeks. Keep in mind it is only for homes that are still inundated.

They aren't dragging people out of their homes, but they are cutting the power starting Sunday at 7 am. I live in an apartment in the evac zone and I'm dry, but some apartments on the other side of the complex did get some flooding. I just hope they don't kill power for the whole complex.

She rents a second story apt near Eldridge and Memorial. She grabbed as much stuff as she could and is staying with a friend in Katy. She sold her home two years ago in the same area of town, south of Buffalo Bayou. Her old house had poor drainage and she got fed up with trying to fix it. I'm glad she sold it.

If the first floor flooded and there is still standing water, wading through the flood waters isn't a safe option, especially on a daily basis. But my apartment is on the furthest side from the Buff Bayou flooding. I'm near Dairy Ashford and Briar Forest. Dry apartments and parking lot. There is a cop car posted on our street so people won't try to drive into the flood waters. I asked the cop if we had to evacuate if our building was dry and had power and he said we could stay.

They are letting ALL tenants out of their leases if they have to move or just want to. I'm happy here though so I'm staying. My only problem is that the exit (and entrance) are under water so I can't drive out. I'm going to take the bus to work next week. It will be an adventure!

The bus near my house comes only once an hour...and requires multiple transfers to get anywhere...

The one I will be taking runs every 15 minutes, but if I lived further out in the burbs it would be less often.

At least that's what a guest on some NPR show said recently.

President Obama was POTUS...Remember when Texas went nuts over a planned military exercise & claimed President Obama was going to invade Texas. Those were good ole days...Now those insane delusional crybabies are running the country!!

"Mandatory" in Texas, at least in Harris County, doesn't mean they're going to arrest you if you stay.

It means that they're telling you to get out. Disobey and you're ignoring some stern, well-founded advice. But there's no police violence there to back it up, no threat of arrest.

"Voluntary" means it's probably a good idea, you might be at risk, but whatever.

So we have mandatory evacuations if it's because it's mandatus or ordered. We don't if by mandatory you're saying that there's some criminal liability for non-compliance.


(It's the same with "zoning." We don't have zoning. But we have a lot of regulations that stipulate what you can build, where you can build it, and how you have to build it. Those do come with penalties for non-compliance. But there's no zoning board and the regs don't deal with the purpose of the building but the building itself. You can put up a building and use it for industry, housing, church, school, sex shop or liquor store without anybody messing with your intent. Unless there's an HOA, and HOAs here are really obnoxious. So we don't have "zoning," but we often have the consequences of zoning.)

was being released.











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Homes just east of Beltway 8 are inundated with water from the overflowing Buffalo Bayou north of Briar Forest Dr., Saturday, September 2, 2017, in Houston. Houston mayor Sylvester Turner issued a new mandatory evacuation order Saturday for homes with water in them south of Interstate 10, north of Briar Forest, east of Highway 6 and west of Gessner Rd. As water continues to be released from the Addicks and Barker reservoirs

just to keep up with the rivers/creeks still flowing into both reservoirs (Addicks & Barker). A number of those rivers have still not reached a crest yet and some are at crest but will remain there for some time before dropping (and their crests are already far far above their previous record flood stages).

The earliest flooding had hit the areas further north behind the reservoirs because the water had no place to go and backed up when it hit the full reservoir pools, which also began to spill over on the north end in one case.... Now the areas south of the reservoirs (some that hadn't been majorly impacted by flooding including low-lying parts of downtown) are getting that water (in some cases, for the first time), as the water north of them continues to get released, and moves through them (including into Buffalo bayou), towards the final exit point in the Gulf eventually.

I live very close to Barker and last i heard the reservoirs are on a controlled release and one is at 80% full as of last night. No way are either dams "full open". The reservoirs will be on controlled release for several weeks.

and watched all of the briefings from Jeff Linder & Ed Russo (morning, mid-day, evening through to their last major briefing) , and Linder indicated that they were gradually moving up the release rate to a combined 16,000 cfs release for both Barker & Addicks, which if I heard him correctly, was pretty much the max for those reservoirs. This was because the levels had still been rising despite the earlier releases, and they needed to get the water out faster to avoid spillover at the southern spillway (the water was already spilling over at the northern spillway which they considered an "uncontrolled release", and was exasperating the situation of water already backed up in the communities adjacent).

The "several weeks" (prior) release rate that you are talking about had been something like 2100 cfs for each.

Because I live in a watershed myself here in Philly, and they have been doing major work to repair and upgrade it, I found myself spending quite a bit of time last week researching and following what was going on with that entire system, and had been following the USGS sites watching the gauges (some of which failed but had temps put in) -

USGS Addicks
USGS Barker

So please, I am on your side. I didn't expect myself to get so involved in learning about how the system was configured (and why) but I did. I have in-laws down there (two of whom live in Richmond and had to evacuate - fortunately to their daughter's house which was not flooded). I do truly wish you all the best.

Then it seems most had the sense and means to get out. When the ground is saturated and mushy, underground electrical, water and sewer lines can shift.

We've already had 1 electrocution of a young man who walked through high water to rescue his sister's cat. He stepped on an exposed cable and that was it.

Then back east.

Big military types.

I working in the yard and you could hear them coming.

About half the buildings in my apartment complex have flooded first floor units but the rest of the complex, including my apartment, is dry. A big military vehicle came through my apartment this morning blasting a horn. We all wandered out with WTF looks on our faces. They just wanted to make sure we weren't staying in flooded units. We are in the evac zone.

The copters were sort of loud today.

I slept in so I missed part of the day.

Say safe.

This is why I would never have a ground floor apartment.

I guessing they are still releasing water.