Mrs. Rannous
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I'm bored. Unless a little dog flies past, I need entertainment.
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Hurricane passing over house. Ask me anything. (1 Viewer)
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Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Alicia (1983), TS Allison, Ike, and Harvey. The eye of Alicia went over my house then.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Probably a good choice. Over a million customers are now without power. The northern eyewall is approaching us now. Joy.
I do appreciate our power walls, for those who were in that discussion.
In Houston (Harris County) this week visiting family in hospital. We are doing OK in our house. Lots of rain and wind up to 60. But Houston taking it pretty hard. Sister in law's house is out of power. Other sister in law's house nearer bayou just lost power and it looks like they may flood. Over 1 million people in Houston without power right now they said.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
What bayou is she near?
Unfortunate timing there.
Unfortunate timing there.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
He's asleep. I have no idea how he does that.
Sand
Footballguy
He's a keeper!
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
And he just got up to check on stuff. Bet he goes back to bed soon.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
It's still a Cat One. There's so much rain, the bayous are starting to reach bankfull.
Grahamburn
Footballguy
Cat 1? Go to work.
Val Rannous
Footballguy
That's the plan. Checked all the windows, outside of no power everything's looking good so far. The French Drains aren't keeping up with the amount of water in the back yard, but considering the sheer volume of rain Mrs. R says I shouldn't be whining.
Val Rannous
Footballguy
Oh, I will, but since I work the night shift from here, it's not a great issue for me.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
The eye is over us now. It's a lot quieter. I think I'll try going to sleep.No questions, but hope you and Mr. R are safe. Same for anyone else in the path. It’s shaping up to be a very early and active hurricane season.
Beef Ravioli Part 2
Footballguy
Have you kept power? Any basement or crawl space to be concerned about?
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Update? Everyone ok?
Birdie048
Footballguy
What is the strangest thing you have seen during or after an event like this?
Me (In North Carolina) - I saw a plastic straw, yes those normal drink straws, sticking out the back side of a Telephone pole after Fran 1996
Wish I took a pic .. it was so cool looking at it from the backside on it's way out, but never fully made it thru (about 70%). Straw was undamaged on that exit side....
I just imagine the speed it had to be travelling to accomplish that ....
Me (In North Carolina) - I saw a plastic straw, yes those normal drink straws, sticking out the back side of a Telephone pole after Fran 1996
Wish I took a pic .. it was so cool looking at it from the backside on it's way out, but never fully made it thru (about 70%). Straw was undamaged on that exit side....
I just imagine the speed it had to be travelling to accomplish that ....
Dinsy Ejotuz
Footballguy
That's what I think about when those yahoos are on TV mainlining adrenaline "storm chasing". Sooner or later one of them is going to take a wood fragment or piece of metal through the heart at 120mph and drop dead on camera.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
We had a pretty good scare a few years ago off the Palm Beach/Treasure Coast in Mathew which got pretty far to shore and then went North but we had some horrific winds overnight, anyways i slept right thru it, windows rattling, Mrs was up all night.
Florida Native, never sat thru an eye wall and I've spent 80-85% of my life in South Florida/Tampa Bay
Just lucky I guess. Andrew should have been the one I remember but I took off for Tampa the week prior in 92.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Was the vault intact or was there money flying everywhere?
Dezbelief
Footballguy
It was intact. There was plenty of notice the tornado was coming and the bank closed early. Otherwise that's where the employees would have been. It was massive 3 rotating storms came together. It hit every town for a 50 mile stretch. Until the big tornado in OKC it had the record for the highest wind speeds.
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Could CJ Stroud throw a TD during this hurricane, and if so, from what maximum distance? Just trying to gauge how strong the wind feels out there.
Houston hit pretty hard. A couple million without power. Tons of trees down. Personally, I'm fine here. Big tree blocking one entrance into the neighborhood but can get out another way.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I was going to ask, is Mr. R asleep?
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
He works from home, but he actually had to go in to work. We lost all connectivity. No power, no satellite, no wi-fi. It was The Dark Ages. Normally, he can set up a hot spot and just keep working, but not this time. He hadn't been in to the office since the big freeze three years back. (He works for a bank, so they have power.)
The Power Walls totally paid off. We still had AC and cold beverages. Awesome!
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
If you saw the game where the goal posts kept getting blown to the side, it was like that. No field goals, no TD's.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
As you can see, we lost all connections. Still don't have wi-fi. Houston houses rarely have basements. They are built on floating slabs. But everything is quiet now.
The news says over two million don't have power. That's not good.
MTskibum
Footballguy
None of my neighbors have cell connections or power.
One of our neighbors is driving to highway 59 to get service and provide updates, although we still don't know how our house is.
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Not even for Stroud???
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Maybe if the roof is closed. This assumes that everyone can get to the stadium.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
The grid isn't completely stable, even where it's working. Every so often, the line conditioner clicks and the power flickers. I think download speeds are a bit slow, too.
What part of town is your house located?
MTskibum
Footballguy
Sugar land near highway 6 and Missouri city.
I finally got a hold of someone, we have some fence issues, but nothing I need to head back and deal with.
bigbottom
Footballguy
Had no power, internet, or cell service for most of the day. Still no power but cell service just now restored and about a 1000 work emails just popped up on my phone. Fun. All our fences are down and will need to be replaced but they were super old anyway. Some minor water damage from a leak but otherwise good on my end. Now off to read a day’s worth of work emails at 11pm!
culdeus
Footballguy
That did happen in tornado season already.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Neither did we. But we seem to be in a grid that gets power back ASAP. We got power back sometime after five. Some of the other subdivisions near here are still dark.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Mr R works at Prosperity Bank. From what he says, things should be reasonably okay where you are.
McBokonon
Footballguy
Saw Whataburger was trending and wondered why.
Apparently, people are using their app to track power outages because the power company doesn't have something like this.
Apparently, people are using their app to track power outages because the power company doesn't have something like this.
GregR
Footballguy
Made it through ok. Had power until well after worst of the storm had passed, and then it went out. Still out. Phone data connection has been almost non-existent except for really late at night. Came into the office to charge electronics and get online for a bit.
Otherwise I'm good. Lost some sections of fence that had already talked to neighbor about replacing before this happened. New cover on top of chimney I just had put on a couple of weeks ago came off, found it in front yard.
Otherwise I'm good. Lost some sections of fence that had already talked to neighbor about replacing before this happened. New cover on top of chimney I just had put on a couple of weeks ago came off, found it in front yard.
To be fair, Centerpoint USUALLY does have a power outage tracker. They are decent about sending updates as to eta's when crews will be out, and when power may be back on after assessing damage.
But, Houston is a **** show right now. I'm at work because we have power at the office, but over 70% of Houston does not have power. I made the critical mistake of failing to pack a lunch and there is not a restaurant open within 5 miles.
And now I just heard that Centerpoint has crews coming in today because they didn't prestage them before the storm. They are training them later and they will be working on restoring power tomorrow. The earliest I'd expect to get power back on will be Wednesday night, Thursday morning
My area was not hit very hard, but lights went out within an hour of the storm starting.
Not happy.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
It got wiped out by the derecho.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
When Mr R was coming home, he reported that the line at the Whataburger at 59 and 99 had a line that went under the freeway and down the block. I guess the app is like the Waffle House Index.
The king champion for this stuff around here has got to be the Texas Roadhouse. Within a week or two after Covid lockdown, they had a system in place to serve to go meals to people in their cars. It was completely organised and contact-free. It may have helped that they were also offering bottled beer and wine to go. They refined it to the system they have now. You call or use the app to order, pull into a pick up spot, text in, and someone brings out your food. They've even installed a small building attached to the main one with AC and a POS to expedite things. Someone there really knows his stuff. I think their sales increased.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Thanks, but we're completey okay here. The rest of Houston, not so much.
Drove downtown to the medical center today. About half the stoplights all over town are working. Seems random. Driving down Westheimer (busy street), about half the lights are working. Some restaurants open with power, some not.
Side note: Super small sample size obviously but have not seen one truck from Utility / Power company out anywhere. They say on the news they're working around the clock. But haven't seen.
Most of the nurses at hospital say their power at home is out.
Side note: Super small sample size obviously but have not seen one truck from Utility / Power company out anywhere. They say on the news they're working around the clock. But haven't seen.
Most of the nurses at hospital say their power at home is out.
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