I am technically dry, safe, and lucky.....but I might have a piece of property that is under several feet of water and could remain that way for quite a while.....so not THAT lucky but not nearly as unlucky as those who lost more important things.
Lost power Sunday morning around 10am and power was restored at around 9:30pm. Lost them again Monday at around 8am and have been without power since. But we're dry and eating good, so that's a blessing.
I think my house is dry. I am safe. And I am definitely lucky. People just a few miles away in all directions got flooding in the house, but we haven't (yet*). * Left for Dallas on Thursday but heard from a neighbor this morning that my house took no water. That could have changed by now of course...
Only had a flicker or 2 the whole week. streets around my neighborhood are flooded and inaccessible, so I'm running kind of low on food (not really, I'll just have to switch to chips and other non-perishables). VERY lucky, and my heart goes out to everyone impacted. I haven't gotten much sleep at all watching my city go through this.
Our neighborhood never flooded. We are very fortunate. We lost power yesterday at 9am and 36 hours later we still don't have power. I have a generator so we are okay but a bit nervous about the temps rising... Compared to lots of people I know, this issue is trivial.
Lost power a few times and a minor roof leak but very fortunate. Thankful whoever built my home put it on a hill because my neighbors werent so lucky.
Still have no idea what the situation is at home, but i'm expecting it to be pretty bad. Hopefully I can get over there in the next day or two and check it out. For those of you who are lucky enough to not have had any issues, please consider donating to the United Way of Greater Houston, Red Cross, or any other charity of your choice. The city and the people could really use it. Just did donations on behalf of my mother/father and I earlier today.
Street flooding up to driveway, but everything else unaffected; minor water supply scares, but it turned out okay. Can't imagine how horrifying it is to lose your home to the floodwaters and not knowing what to do for the next few weeks...
Safe and dry here in Austin at 900 feet above sea level (with good drainage - you can flood in Austin, as well), but we have friends and family in the Houston area with water in their homes. Don't know if the damage is bad enough to be a tear down at any of them, although the folks close to Addicks may be the worst off. My significant other heard that it could be 3 weeks before the water leaves many of the homes affected there. After 3 weeks in the water, it's going to be tough to save them. I sure hope she is wrong about that, but it's what she heard on one of the news outlets. The Addicks situation will take time to resolve itself, that's assuming that the berm holds. Water is still coming in faster than they can drain it into Buffalo Bayou.
