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I got some from Sams Club, but I'm dubious if they could be activated in time. You need to soak them in water to get them to swell up and form a dam. I also got a bunch of roll of 4" wide gorilla tape. If the water gets close I could seal all my doors in about 15 minutes. If I had those and used them last flood, I bet my total damage would have been more like 10K instead of over 100Ignoramus said:
Doing good. One of the recent tornado warnings was probably a few miles away from me, but northwest of me and it headed northwest.
I keep telling the wife, don't poke the bear! Count our blessings. Definitely not looking like it will go back out and build steam. So I am hoping it just sits there and dies.
Good to hear, stay safe.
Thanks for posting that. I hadn't thought to go inspect my attic. Found leaks with the air conditioner exhaust, and an air vent for a bathroom. Duck tape seems to be working for one, the other I put a container under.
Yes, doing well. Raining again but the street in front of me is pretty much empty of water other than some running to the storm drain. Think I'm going to go try to crash again while the water level is low again. Only got about 2 hours of sleep last night. Setting alarm to get up and check every couple of hours, but couldn't get back to sleep after the first one.
I'm high and dry, GB. Live in Midtown and our street floods when it gets real heavy (totalled my car on Tax Day Flood) but drains pretty quickly.
Yeah, I have a leak somewhere too. Strange thing is that the third floor is dry but there's water on the second floor ceiling.
I think based on what I can figure out from this dashboard is that conroe is letting out 5850 cfs but getting more than 10000cfs and downstream looking at 14000cfs +/-
I live in the west side of Pearland by 288. Lots of flooding in the area, but our neighborhood is managing to hold up so far. Friendswood to our east is devastated.
Glad to hear you're ok and hope you figure out the leak. In about 10 hours my container filled up to maybe 30% full. And some of that was light-to-no rain so I'm going to have to keep a frequent eye on it. Wish I could fit something bigger there but there's not much room under the bend in the pipe and the wood frame under it.
Power, internet, etc, all unaffected so far. A buddy from my old FF league had a tree take down his power for much of the day Saturday but they got him back up.
Yeah, same here. Except for the sporadic tornado, wind hasn't really been an issue (I know that sounds odd, but not sure how to put it better) so power lines are generally intact.
I don't know if "most" do. There are some especially flood-prone areas where it's a requirement. Personally, it's a very inexpensive insurance for what it provides so I always carry it. I would imagine there are many people that think it's a waste or cannot afford it though.
Isn't that heading out to sea though? I thought it was already over FL as a tropical depression.
Not sure of path but 92l/ Irma has gotten more organized today and is just off GA coast.
They mentioned Addicks reservoir too on Fox26, but I don't see an alert for it. May want to keep your eyes open for one.dhockster said:
That's more to do with hail. I don't think it would apply here.
