UPDATE: The lower Greens Bayou still hasn’t peaked. And it’s still raining.

I live on a cul-de-sac. Here’s the end of it.
During the height of Allison’s flooding, I could walk down to the end of the street and see a foot-wide, three-inch deep stream of water that had meandered through the neighborhood to flow into the storm drain that took it into that little bayou. From there
, I could walk to the Kroger’s, and see their single line of sandbags keeping the water from their flooded parking lot out of the building.
Don’t think I’m doing that this time.
On the bright side
, I estimate it will take another two to three feet before we’re in danger of flooding
, and the upper Greens Bayou is slowly dropping.
On the dark side
, it’s still raining.
That’s not quite true; I can probably reach I-10, but with 340+ major highway closures (which doesn’t count other streets; assume thousands), I’m not going anywhere. I couldn’t even reach Greens Bayou on the morning scout. I’ll have what pictures I could get
, shortly. Times like this, I wish I had a drone….
Edit: forgot to mention
, Barker and Addicks floodgates are open, and Lake Conroe’s gates have been opened also.
We’re losing parts of the Flood Warning System. Not a lot, but I’ve never seen “OOS” tags before. Also, reaching their server seems to be a bit… spotty, and the local Greens Bayou gauge hasn’t reported a stream level in over 90 minutes (but still reports rain).
Raining
, thunder (which I haven’t heard in a while), and the power blinked. But we might be about to get some clear sky for a few hours.
But…
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I dug up my nearly 15-year old Sony 2 megapixel camera. Screw Microsucks and mePhone.
More below the fold.
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