scrubbedexpat097

To all you guys in the Lone Star State you need your life jackets on! Good luck and stay safe.

Reminding myself that next year when we are retired we are moving to higher ground!

Rete

Good for you, SM. We are all going to under water sooner than we thought. Understand there is land for sale on Mt. Everest.

scrubbedexpat091

I was in Texas last week (DFW area) and some of the storms were crazy, could not believe how much water fell from the sky in such a short time, and the tornado warnings, yeah so not going to ever live there...lol

lizzyq

Younger Q boy was quite taken aback by the ferocity of the storms when he moved to New Mexico last year. His school has a lightning research facility on the mountain above the town. Langmuir Lab »

scrubbedexpat097

This was supposed to be our long weekend to go on a road trip.

I guess we were destined not to go! First of all M had his heart problems again that have meant a bunch of hospital and doctor visits. Now we are on "flood" alert. Well at least we still took 2 days off and we can decide what to do if we are in the path of high water. So far we are just soggy but it is really what happens north of us and how it travels down stream.

I really wanted to enjoy my newly fenced in property this weekend. I guess I'll just look out the window.

scrubbedexpat091

What got me about the storms was how big they were, on leaving Dallas last week, there were storms to the north, east, south, and mostly west, we flew through a corridor with big nasty storms on both sides, we flew for over an hour before we could turn and start flying the correct direction, added a good 45 minutes-1 hour to the flight. Never seen clouds so black and evil looking.

scrubbedexpat097

Texas storms are pretty spectacular and I'm sorry you were caught up in it.
We have a lull right now and the sun is out but we know there is more to come. The Brazos River runs from the Dallas area right down to us on the coast so with all the rain up north for the last few weeks it is now breaking it's banks and flooding our rural areas. Plus we are supposed to get more storms here all weekend.

lansbury

Best to M, hope he can be fixed up without anything to invasive.

scrubbedexpat097

Thanks mate. It's an ongoing problem that hopefully one of these days will be sorted. It would help if he stopped thinking he was superman

Rete

Understand from the news that parts of Houston are now flooded. Stay safe and thanks for sending those storms our way. I know you are happy to share.

scrubbedexpat097

Apparently we are not done yet. We have another round starting this evening. We are closer to the coast than Houston and it all makes it way to us. Lots of flooded roads and a few areas with homes under water. But so far we are just surrounded and are keeping our fingers crossed.
Sorry, I didn't mean to share! Hope it passes by quickly x

Rete

The front yard culvert is full of standing water. It has no place to run off. I know the forecast was for 4 days of heavy storms with rain, thunder, lightning and tornado watches. Luckily, we are built on a small hill so that the front on a slight pitch up from the road while the back is 1/2 way down that 'hill'. Thankfully the french drain has been able to handle it up to now in the back. Please stay high and dry.

scrubbedexpat097

It's getting old now! We had a romantic candle lit supper for our anniversary as our power kept going on and off. Not as much overnight rain as predicted but not looking good for today. This is supposedly the last round. I hope so.

Owen778

Good luck everyone. I remember how bad our area was in the tax day floods, as well as Harvey.

Rete

How are things in Alaska, Owen? Still enjoying the new location?