You have the worst weather. Stay safe.
The news here in NJ shows some of the storms that swept through your region. Hope all is well. We get hurricanes & snow storms... That's nothing compared to tornados. We've had tornado warnings and some tornado activity over the years, but nothing at all like what you have there in TX.
Gadzooks!! That's a lot of rain!
Eeek! This is why I can't live in that region of the US. Tornados freak me out.
I saw on facebook your daughter's store got flooded.. hope it wss not too bad and they were able to clean it all up
Just got my bu** back home; rain starting up again. Was going to help my cousin with cleanup (she had 13''s) but decided I needed to be home, high and dry. Yes...DD's grooming shop flooded
; about 3" of water...flowed in from back all the way to front door. Everything SOAKED...she called at 7:15, woke me from a
sound sleep, "Mom, I need HELP!" Gathered towels, cleaning supplies, plastic gloves and took off. They had the water swept out before I got there so spent the morning wiping things down and soaking water out of equipment, dog cages, the WASHER & DRYER, dog "dryers", surge protectors, display cases...
. One of her customers was unable to get in yesterday afternoon to pick up her dogs so she kept them overnight. The dogs were fine (sweet as can be
) but their owner was freaking out for them...she used a kayak to get from her house to higher ground, borrowed a neighbors truck and came in this morning to pick them up! She was going to have to put them in the kayak to get back to her house!
She walked in the door and I just hugged her...she cried but her doggies were SO glad to see her! Brenham is a mess; 20+" average rainfall there; HUGE washout of street in front of Firemen's Park..swallowed a car
...Houston TV station there filming the scene; 35 students and 15 staff members had to shelter in place at the Brenham Elementary School last night...parents couldn't get in to get the kids and buses couldn't travel the roads to get them home. All rivers/streams are out of their banks; major highways between Austin & Houston are closed due to flooded. Brazos River is already 5' above flood stage in some places. Some of DD's friends had taken their kids to gym class yesterday afternoon...within 45 minutes they were flooded in and spent the night there... AND...it's "setting up" to be same type of weather today as yesterday. DH has been out since 6:30 clearing tree limbs off roads to make them passable. Bellville was VERY lucky this time around...we only had between 2 & 4 inches but our neighbors to the north are really suffering today.
Just heard on news confirmed 2 deaths in Brenham, 5 people missing. DH just called from his workplace (he went back to work YESTERDAY
) POURING rain again...pretty sure he's not going to be able to get home tonight unless he does some "creative" traveling.
One bridge he needs to cross on Hwy. 159 has water directly under the bridge already...and it "rising"...rapidly!