That water is dangerous with fireant balls and snakes trying to get dry.

I was really happy to see that post. I knew the current house is better for flooding, but that much water in that short of time has got to find a way out.

We are the lucky exception here. Much of north Houston, reaching even as far south as the Heights but especially near Cypress Creek, suffered catastrophic damage to apartment complexes. People had to be evacuated from homes or (especially) apartments via large trucks (one looked like it was stolen from the US Army in 1946; another looked like it was borrowed from a third-world nation’s army) and air boats (all of them looked like they belonged in the Louisiana swamps, but damn, those suckers could make time across floodwaters here!). Rescued people, most of them poor, faced a choice: save their families at the expense of most of their personal property left behind, or ride out the rest of the flood on the 2nd or 3rd floor of an apartment building, which might later lose power, or, if there was power, leave the residents trying to find a safe path to the ground (elevator? would you ride Ol’ Sparky?), where the complex was at best surrounded by water, and at worst had mandatory passages through water deeper than the kids were tall. Yes, most tenants chose to save themselves and their kids, at the cost of their meager possessions and their pride.

About 35 years ago I played a concert at something called the Cypress Creek Christian Community Center. I wonder how many of the well-off audience members who lived to see this storm actually volunteered to help transport those people to safety. (In fairness, there were a LOT of volunteers who helped with that and other tasks.)

Best wishes to Steve & family, and all in the affected area!