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You bet I am thankful! It's difficult to tell on the video, but the large open area that the drone started filming over is a HUGE deep retention pond. The river reached flood stage at 48' and at that point came up to the base of the levee. It peaked at 50', which is considered major flood stage, and the record is 50.3. It would have to go up to 54' to breech the levee, so we were never concerned for ourselves.

We also have a large drainage ditch that connects to the retention pond. The massive rain that we got last week (Monday pm - Tuesday am -- I think we got almost 9") that caused flash floods all over Houston didn't cause any flooding here, but we did wake up with water in the drainage ditch and a lake instead of an empty retention pond. Both could have held a LOT more rain. I am totally impressed with whoever designed and engineered our drainage and levee. Our last home in Sugar Land / First Colony would have had water rising in the street, but it drained here just as fast as it fell.