Houston flyers?

[Will Hinton]

Anyone know anything about our Houston connection?  We have a lot of our folks living there and that is some of the worst I've ever seen!  Our prayers are certainly needed for Texas.

[Dan Berry]

It's gonna be tough on them. It quit raining this afternoon and that helps.
Friday will be a big day when a river crests.
Mark figures the Scobee field has 15 feet of water on it.

[Steve Lotz]

That would get the cottonmouths moving.

[Brad LaPointe]

I attended a F2D Team Trials at Scobee after a hurricane a few years ago . The locals were a lot more worried about razor back hogs than anything else. The real enemy were the huge swarms of fire ants floating around . Nasty things those fire ants .

Brad 

[Dan Berry]

It looks like Mark and his son's house won't flood.
The field won't usable for a while.
Those are the only guys I've heard about.

[Ken Burdick]

Mike Willcox and family are safe

[Dave_Trible]

Frank told me Saturday that the field was wet but not under and his house OK but since they opened those dams right near Scobie field all bets are off.

Dave

[Balsa Butcher]

Any news on Dubb Jett? His engine shop is in Houston.

[Dane Martin]

Dee Rice has been in contact several times recently via Email. He's concerned about his house being in the flood zone as it expands, but I haven't heard any more since the 27th, but he did mention his family's houses were destroyed.

[frank williams]

The last time I posted here I made a capricious statement about how nicely organized this storm was, very compact eye and nice defined feeder bands, unlike the generalized blobs we've see for storms recently ........... it not nice to mock Mother Nature ...... That night one of the beautiful feeder bands lined up on my house and it rained something fierce.  2am and the water from the bayou is at the front door.  All totaled the NASA area got 50+ inches of rain over the last couple of days.   Never seen anything like this, and I've seen a bunch of storms and hurricanes.  We didn't have much wind, although Rockport TX was leveled, but we sure got the rain.  The beforehand prediction of it coming ashore and looping back out in the gulf and then coming in again came true.  I didn't think their computer modeling was that good to predict almost a week ahead for a complex movement like that.  I always poo poo CFD modeling, but maybe I better rethink that.

Scobee field is not just wet, but under water.  Probably 8-10 ft of water.  The last 100 year flood (2 years ago) only put about 3-4 feet of water over the circles.  The team Trials will not be at Scobee field this year.  We are working on it and Randy will have an announcement in the near future regarding the trials.

Darrell Harvin got close but is dry.
Howard Williams got some water.
Mark Troutman, so far is just dry.
Carl Chapman got flooded.
Dee Rice, at last contact was dry.
Stubblefield, I haven't heard from.
Dubbys shop, I don't know but its in a bad area around Hwy290
Don Cranfield is ok and I think his dads place may escape, but the rivers are still rising

Thank you all for your concern ... we'll try to keep you posted .... right now the sun is out and the wind is dry and out of the north .... a nice day finially.
I have a video of a boat trip down Interstate 45 past acres and acres of car dealerships under water .... buy your new car quick before they start shipping these up to you Yankees.
 

[Will Hinton]

Thank you, Frank, for the extensive update.  We here in Ohio simply cannot begin to concieve what you folks are going through.  Keep praying, all.

[Garf]

Since I know where my old wreck of a car has been, I will simply do a paint job and interior job on it and some mechanical work and keep it another 5 years.

[Randy Powell]

Being from the Puget Sound area, we understand torrential rain. I have sat and watched it rain an inch every half hour - for days. More than that in some areas like Ho and Quinault. But we are mostly built for it with huge drainage canals and run off systems. And it's not flat here. Lots of hills and places to get out of a flood area. I have all the sympathy in the world for the folks in and around Houston. They just aren't built for this and it looks like they are getting hammered.

Good luck to them.

[frank williams]

Thanks for the support Randy
You are right .... the highest point within a 100 mile radius of Houston is the freeway overpass on IH10 and IH45.

[frank williams]

News choppers are just now allowed to fly .... the views are unbelievable ... 100's of sq miles of homes impacted.  A major mess. 

[SteveMoon]

Thanks for the update Frank. Up here in Dallas we're really hoping everybody
comes out of this ok. Please keep us posted.

Steve

[Tom Niebuhr]

I talked to Richard Oliver a few days ago. He is high and not affected. His kids are flooded and can't get out due to the flooded roads.  He told me that Dubb's shop has flooded in the past , they have everything high above the floor, but with the terrible amount of rain, there is no telling how high the water will go. There is no way to know until the water goes down.

With no oil coming, the Dallas area gas stations had very long lines tonight. Looked like the gas lines of the 70's.  Many gas stations are already out of regular gas.. The prices are going up very fast, I have hear of $3.75 in some places already. 

This will affect the whole country.

[Fredvon4]

I am several hundred miles from the Houston area. We just barely got outer band rain here, predicted 3 to 5 inches but we only saw 1.25"

My dinky town is fed by 3 major Texas highways and we were/are out of gasoline but some one is doing ok with the re-supply as the shortages each were only for 2 days (so far) Not bad price increases (so far) reg is $2.18

35 miles away in Belton, the convention center is filling up with displaced folks.

We are close to Fort Hood so we have military down at the gulf and here locally assisting FEMA and Red Cross

Last time we had this much influx of people needing help was Katrina 2005 when we got thousands to help from Louisiana
 
Lampasas, our county and town, has 35 folks (ambulance, sheriffs water rescue, and fire fighters) dispatched to the disaster area

Got the word this morning to please stop donating clothing...water, food, and cash is more needed---  there is no space to store, or volunteers to sort, all the clothing

A POX on all the heartless A holes, who always run around our area, buy up fuel, water, generators, ply wood and head down to make big profits...shameful