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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2839834, member: 75525&quot;]This will be my last Harvey post. I promise the next one will be coin related! It was great to see sunshine just before sunset yesterday!</p><p>The area around my bank flooded. I will have to make a trip soon to see how my treasures fared. I may have to store my coins in a bank with a 2nd story.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our home is dry, but there are many around us that have suffered. We had water in the street in front of our home three times in three days. It is a bad feeling when the water is rising in front of your home, it is raining hard, the weather map has nothing but red and yellow around you and weather forecasters say to expect rain for 4 to 7 days.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our son lives inside the loop near Hwy 288. He is dry, but streets around him are not. It is not hard to find pictures of the Hwy-288 lake on line. One news report said the water was near the banks of Hwy 288. The road was built as a retention pond in the case of heavy rain, which we have often here</p><p><br /></p><p>Our daughter lives in the South Shore subdivision in League City (south of Clear Lake). She had experiences similar to ours, but the weather map seemed to show more rain there. Water rose in her street and stopped just short of her garage door. Watching water rise is a reminder that we manage much of our lives, but there are things we do not control.</p><p><br /></p><p>I say home instead of house in this note. For me, home is where my wife and I stay, and not a building. That said, we have been here at 14&#039; above sea level for 30 years and this building and the people around us have been home to us for a long time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our son&#039;s girlfriend flooded. She and her daughter waded out and were given rides. She is at our daughter&#039;s and they are camping out.</p><p><br /></p><p>A friend was rescued by boat from her garage roof. Others had to leave their homes due to flooding water.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our neighbor and his wife, 6 months pregnant, moved from our neighborhood at 14&#039; elevation to his dad&#039;s home at 41&#039;. They were rescued by boat and are back next door. Flooding is hard to predict. A 20&#039; storm surge would cover us if it made it past coastal islands and the other restrictions.</p><p><br /></p><p> [/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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