On Sunday, September 10, 2017, Norm <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 CMLHope-unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > 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. >
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