April 18, 2016 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Stay safe please!
1The strange thing is that those of us living in Clear Lake/Seabrook didn’t see any rains at all… until around 7am. Since then, it’s been pouring here for the time being. (It doesn’t help that the automated rain gauge proceeds to break…)
Whee. Such fun down here in Houston today. Now, if only we could watch the politicians lose their homes…
2Our dry stream bed in Schertz is a raging river right now.
3Near you by Pecan Grove – it’s been a wild one starting around 4AM. Jones Creek behind the house is moving fast. #1 son lives near 59 and the Westpark Tollway, they’re trapped. Surrounded by water with no way in or out but luckily he’s in and on higher ground.
4Cat, Dog, and I are good so far.
Some backyard flooding, but streets seem to be o.k.
We’re in with lots to read. My cousin in Maryland sent me another Nadia Bolz-Weber book. This one is “Pastrix” and today is a good day to read.
5Here in the inner loop we are seeing some incredible flooding. White Oak Bayou is flooded. and yes some fool drove his car into standing water at Studewood (when it goes under i10. They even put guages on the pillars but that didn’t seem to help.
6I could loan some of you my Louisiana webbed feet
7Sharon, we in Arizona have a “dumb driver” law that requires that said driver pay for rescue when they ignore flash flood warnings and get stuck. Even with that, there are some “morans” who requite rescue every year.
8Stay safe and dry, you guys!
9In southern Montgomery county, we have some minor neighborhood flooding but I’m not goin’ outside to check the creek or the San Jacinto.
Sadly, I was caught unprepared and am low on milk & bread, which are standard snow day provisions up North. Will try a grocery run later.
Stay dry ya’ll!
10The darndest thing is, despite all the damn water everywhere this is not the time to learn how to swim! that should have been accomplished a long time ago. But maybe now is the time to learn how to float!
11Stay safe everyone!
12Amen. If you can have a dumb driver law, why can’t there be a dumb shooter law too? Something to ponder as you watch the waters rise. So Sorry you have to go through this again.
13When life hands you a gold mine,mine it. Tell all wingnuts radar shows angry Rainbow Coalition troops coming to exact revenge. When all wingnuts flee the state,have Dems gain control and fire all wingnuts and turn Texas solidly blue.
14@Gramiam- From what I saw in Tucson, the last time I visited they ought to invoke your “dumb driver law” for the inability or unwillingness to read the warning signs posted at all low points. First one I saw made me wonder, here I am in the city that hosts the University named for the state and they have to warn residents.
15WOW, stay safe!
16Have lived in Arizona where tourists think the flood signs are joking. Not a joke.
Good to get the rain, and stay safe while it’s agoin’.
17My daughter and I left at 6am this morning from Beaumont heading for her post-op appointment at MD Anderson. Hit the monsoon about 30 minutes into the drive. We had to do a fair bit of detouring around the city streets after being forced off 288. It was kind of funny…traffic stopped ahead of us then we see cars driving toward us and the onramp just there. We just followed the crowd and went the wrong way down. MDA was at level 3 emergency ( like the city) so there was only skeleton staff. Lots of patients made it in only to be told there was only one doctor. Some came from over 3 hours away for chemo and had to be turned away. We were lucky that our doctor made it in, but were afraid we wouldn’t get home. Good ole google maps got us out with no high water encounters. What was really nice is a lot of people paid attention to the mayor and stayed home. No traffic!!! We’re home now, safe and dry. Next time, though, I’ll look more carefully at the weather in Houston.
18Keeping a good thought for all concerned. Stay safe!
19Ok, it’s 2:45pm here in Houston. The rains have mostly stopped (for today) although there is a small stretch of rains to the west that look like they’re trying to make it eastwards. Meanwhile, the main line has just finally made it to Lake Charles, LA, but it’s thinned out as well.
Rainfall numbers have been anywhere from 4.5″ at the local rain gauge (less than 1/2 mile from where I am) to 5.1″ at Hobby (where planes won’t be departing until 4pm) to an amazing 11.75″ at Bush Intercontinental. Some areas saw even more than that, I saw one rain gauge to the west reading 17.6″ of rain… gah.
It’s not quite a replay of 5/13/2015 (last year) where we saw 13.4″ of rain locally, but it’s definitely up there in the record books. And tomorrow? That’s another 80% chance of rains expected, along with tonight.
Almost a year from the last serious floods (non-tropical) and this year’s going for broke already.
20Don’t see anything above about this rescue incident somewhere around Houston, the video shows how quick it happens. Another deserving Darwin Award candidate lucks out.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/4/18/1516873/-Frustrated-TV-reporter-helps-rescue-a-man-while-prepping-for-live-broadcast-about-flood-video
Over here in the world’s ‘Flash Flood Central’ of Central/South Texas all the dire NOAA rainfall forecasts of the last few days haven’t materialized 100%, yet.
There’s been a lot of rain, almost solid cloud cover, etc., but not much flooding like around Houston a 100+miles to the east.
My weather station has registered about an inch and a half over the last couple days , not near the six plus forecast, but tonight may be the main event, hearing thunder right now.
So little sunlight my solar powered wireless wind instruments are getting flaky.
Dang, was going to link a TX Flash Flood Wikipedia page that used to be there, but isn’t now. The two others below work though:
http://floodsafety.com/media/ffa/contents_index.htm
http://floodsafety.com/media/maps/texas/index.htm
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21Wouldn’t mind if y’all sent a *little* of that to the mid-Atlantic region. I don’t think we’ve had rain in about two weeks. Lovely blue days, but the flowers might be getting thirsty.
Everybody keep safe.
22Some impressive graphics and visuals from the WashPost’s Capital Weather Gang:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/04/18/houston-region-swamped-and-shutdown-by-historic-flood/
23on the plus side, this should help some with your drought. hell of a way to do it I know, just be careful. funny thing, in pictures you’ve posted before, your house looked a lot bigger. 🙂
24@ Da Chipster & others-JJ I reiterate their warnings to keep an eye on the weather and water and stay safe for all our sakes. My first Father-in-Law( a dry-land wheat farmer in far northeastern Colorado) told me once that the only time an agriculturalist did not need moisture, in whatever form, was when he was getting it. Is it possible your former guv Perry and the folks he convened at that stadium prayed too hard?Your drought is broken-I believe- it can quit now.Any excess is just going to end up in the Gulf,after having played havoc with you.
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