We plan to leave for Vancouver on Wednesday morning. The trailer is mostly loaded except for some fresh food we will pickup at the last minute. The cruise clothes are folded beside the suitcases in the living room. Just have the last minute type of things left.
However best laid plans and all that...... It is hard to believe what has happened over the last week and that it might interfere with our plans for this trip.
Harvey hit down the coast in the Rockport area at 10PM Friday a week ago. Coming in as a cat 4 hurricane with 130 miles an hour winds...then it more or less stopped for awhile before it moved back into the Gulf of Mexico, still as a cat 1 hurricane, and drifted north just off the Texas coast generating massive amounts of rainfall and making another land fall just east of the Texas-Louisiana border four days later. Now nine days later, Harvey’s remnants are off the New York coast still causing rain.
It started raining at our home Friday night. It rained and rained and rained the rest of the night, all day Saturday and into Sunday; sometimes very hard and at times just a drizzle. Sometime Monday, the rain stopped here, after a record 24 inches. We didn’t have any serious flooding except in some low areas out in the country. But South and East of our home, there was much more rain and the flooding has been terrible.
Our daughter’s area East of us, Montgomery, got over 30 inches and the roads and many homes were flooded. Our son in Baytown came within an inch of having water in his home. He recorded 47 inches in a 72 hour period. The flooding in the greater Houston, Gulf Coast area was historic.
Thousands of homes were underwater and the nations forth largest city was paralyzed. Even now many homes still have water in them and some streets are still flooded. And due to rising rivers and overflowing reservoirs as the rain water drains toward the Gulf, some areas are still receiving flood waters and there is new flooding.
As we expected our town has received many displaced families. The flooded roads have disrupted deliveries to local stores so many shelves are empty and gas stations are out or low on gasoline.
Apparently, because a number of refineries were off line during the storm, many people across Texas have panicked about the gasoline supply and are panic buying. The powers that be are currently working to get gas stations re-supplied. Hopefully by Tuesday evening the crisis will be over or at least better. We can’t get across Texas on one tank of gas, it will take about three. So we shall see what happens. It is a seven day drive straight through to Vancouver so we have a little bit of leeway. But who wants to drive all day everyday for seven straight days.....we had allowed twice that number!
Stay tuned.....
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