I do not get to post often but wanted to wish all of the group the best and to check on Jeanie and the rest of the Floridians. We did not flood at my home or office but there are still areas that are not accessible because of flood waters. You would think that the flood waters would be gone by now but the reality is that we had 40" of rain as measured at our rain gunge and some areas had much more. There was very little wind damage here in Houston but I now have a much better understanding of the 40 days and 40 nights that Noah experienced.
We have two lakes that supply our drinking water, Lake Conroe which is upstream from the second which is Lake Houston. Lake Conroe is north of Houston and Lake Houston is northeast of Houston. There are two flood control dams, Addicks and Barker Cypress that are to the West of Houston. Much of the worst flooding was caused by the release of water from the dams at Lake Conroe, Addicks, and Barker Cypress. People that had never flooded ever, flooded. Addicks and Barker Cypress was within about a foot of being over-topped. They had no choice but to release the water. Some talking heads have criticized our mayor for not evacuating people but historically more people have died from being in their vehicles than from being at home during a flood. A comparison would be to evacuate the whole state of Florida that would be concentrated in our metropolitan area. He did the correct thing. People that live in areas that are known to flood generally will self evacuate after putting as much of their belongings out of harms way. Unfortunately for many the floods were so much worse than ever before. You are all in my prayers. Houston strong Norm -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
