TexAg2001 said:
I'm on Cheena/Hillcroft. Where are you located? Water in the streets is draining faster than I would have thought...but it also came up extremely fast. I feel that we got lucky it stopped raining. We just moved to the area about 8 months ago so this is our first storm here and not sure what to expect (other than what the neighbors have told us).
I'm on Grape between Hillcroft and Chimney Rock. Have lived in this block, or had family live nearby since 1987 -- including Allison, Memorial Day and Tax Day floods.
I went to the HEB at Buffalo Speedway at just before 8 and Jason just had water in the gutters. Left the store after 10 minutes and it was raining torrents. I got to Mullins and Beechnut at 8:45 and the water in the streets was as high as I have ever seen it. I was driving an SUV and was worried that I might have a high water issue -- bow wave was impressive and I had to keep the throttle down until the driveway -- but thank God I didn't. Water is dropping now and headed towards the bayou with swift current, indicating that the bayou is low enough to handle the drainage and that the street flooding was caused by overwhelming rain over a short time.
Harris County Flood Warning site seems to be down but the NWS site indicates that Braes Bayou went from 24.77 ft above sea level at 7:30 pm to 37.53 ft at 9:45 pm. That rise is as rapid as the Memorial Day flood in 2015 but we didn't have the instant flooding on the streets then as we just had. Flood stage is 41 feet but I suspect that is measured further towards the Loop. If this keeps up the neighborhoods between the ghetto HEB and JCC and the Loop will get water -- again.
I know houses on the bayou side of Yarwell got some water then but don't think it went much further south than that. This is different, though.
