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Holy waterworks, Batman!! This stupid Harvey can GTFO, as far as I'm concerned!!! Friday and yesterday weren't too bad, some rain, some wind, but last night, after Harvey had collapsed into a TD, the rains started falling. We got about 12" in a 2.5-3 hour period last night. The yards filled, as they normally do, but it just kept coming. Finally, the water reached the weep holes in the first course of brick around the house, and started coming in around 1130 last night. We frantically moved stuff out of our office, which was formerly a formal livingroom, which in true 1970's fashion, is sunken. So there was the opportunity for the thing to fill to at least 6", or so. That's not so bad, except the UPS is on the bottom shelf of my 'server rack' that's in the office, and that makes the base at about 5" above the floor. Yikes!

So I shut everything down and unplugged the UPS and wrestled that beast out of the office to a safer place. We got a total of about 1/4-3/8" of water in 5 of our rooms, and then things slowed down some. After the water receded some, the water in the bedrooms actually drained. We still had some cleanup to do in the office, and have finally dried the floor from that.

We'll still need to remove the carpet from the dining room, and will, no doubt, have to replace some drywall, but so far, we've been lucky. The storms are far from over, though, so we're watching and worrying. But H0ly FSCK, we've never seen this much rain!! Our rain gauge is showing 12.3" of rain over the last 24 hours, and other rain gauges in the area have recorded more than 27". There are still water rescues going on as people cut themselves out of their attic and call for help from their roofs. It's bad here, all over the Houston area.

The garage got about 2" in it, so there'll be some lovely cleanup going on there in the next few days. We haven't been able to get out to the shop to check on the status there, but it's about another 2-3" higher elevation, so fingers crossed things are okay there. There's still 2-3' of water between us and the shop, so we'll have to wait a while before we can go check it out. Sadly, our tallest vehicle, or GMC, is stuck out in the shop, so we're pretty much stranded here for the next couple of days.

But just wow!

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Nothing like a nice long holiday weekend to catch up on flood cleanup! I'm happy to be back at the day job so I can relax!!! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

The office building is still flooded, so the WFH continues, which is very welcome. It will probably be closed for at least the rest of the week. They're still releasing water from the dams upstream and nearby the office building, so the bayou that runs behind it could be overbank for at least another week. Late last week, as the waters receded, the speed sensor status on highways and toll roads in the Houston area were gray, indicating that there were no cars on the road to calculate speed off of. Today, all the roads were red, indicating that all the people on the roads were stopped. It seems you can get on many roads, but you just can't get off. Part of the route to my office building is still under 20-30 FEET of water.

They delivered the dumpster yesterday morning. They had no 20 yard units available, so we got a 30. I figured we'd be sending a mostly-empty 20 yard unit off to the dump when done. We're still not done cleaning stuff out, and the 30-yard dumpster is about 1/2 full!!

We got the garage cleaned out. It was kind of bad that our hand was forced on some badly-needed cleaning, but we're really kind of happy with the results. After pulling everything out of the garage, we ran to H-D and picked up some wire shelving and installed it. Now, everything but jack stands and floor jacks is off the floor.

We also cleaned some of the stuff out of the shop. It got a bit of water in it, which messed up anything in cardboard boxes on the floor, and the oil-proof 'blankets' we had put under some of the cars. It's pretty much dried out, but we've left the ceiling fans going just to be sure.

I still have some baseboards and maybe some drywall out of some of the back bedrooms, but the dining room and office are cut out and drying:

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Office and dining room common wall.

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Dining room wall.

We're getting there. And we're DAMNED luckier than so many here.