I was surprised to see how many low places were still under water from these alerts. Are you all still dealing with flooding/closed roads in Houston, Judy?

There are a few pictures (and a video) of the cattle drive here: https://www.facebook.com/TexasRanchPhotography

On outlying areas and some roads/underpasses are still under water, but for the most part, roads in Houston "city" are dry and are open......

Today, the first day of Hurricane season....oh good........we are all divided in groups, "A", "B", "C", as to when we can evacuate. I am in the "C" group....we are told to just hunker down until the salt water from Galveston is up around our ears!!! I am not worried about the flooding...we are high and dry here....it is the WIND that scares the daylights out of me....I THINK I could sit here and emotionally survive a Cat 3....but a high Cat 3 or Cat 4 is absolutely out of the question! The house may be able to withstand the wind at those speeds, but I would loose my mind!!!!

Evacuation groups? To hell with that, I'm leaving ASAP when a hurricane is coming.

That is why hundreds of thousands of people got stranded, bumper to bumper for hundreds of miles, on freeways and evacuation routes, during Hurricane Rita....People who would just rather not sit in a hurricane, jammed up the roads so that people whose very lives depended on getting out and away from a storm surge, were not able to escape. I sat here thru Rita for that reason.....scared to death but my life was not in danger like all the people south of where I am, who could not get out......

I will sit here and be scared chitless of the wind.....hopefully, my home will withstand 120 mile winds.....flooding here at my house isnt an issue, thank God....if I see that there is a Cat 4 or 5 coming this way, I will leave WAY before they start evacuating, so I am not just part of a harrowing problem, possibly even contributing to someone loosing their life because they could not get out. If I sit here until they start evacuating, then I will follow the "law" and leave when my group is designated to leave.

OMG you guys stay safe! I just now saw this thread. It sounds terrible in TExas.

I get why it's done, but it's a prisoner's dilemma kind of problem when you look at it from the perspective of one person or one family. If people follow the law you leave early and you're not stuck in huge traffic and escape quickly. If no one follows the law then the road is already jam packed when it's your turn and you're stuck. Either way your outcome is better by looking out for yourself first.

I can only think after witnessing all the people that died and even all the pets that died stuck in the traffic, perhaps the majority "learned" how the system works and rather than screw it up for everyone, they will follow the template and do as instructed, which will enable people whose very lives are in danger, the ability to get out of harms way, using the dedicated escape routes, in the dedicated sequence, at the dedicated time. That will allow everyone to get out of town safely, rather than dying on the side of the road, out of gas, in the heat, some of carbon monoxide poisoning......the million people that are new to the Houston area since that horrific "evacuation" disaster 10 years ago and have no idea how that evacuation failed, they will be the ones that decide they are not going to run from no little hurricane and they will "hunker down", with their social security numbers written on their forearms and "Par-TAYYYYYY!!!....

My ex husband lived his life by the philosophy "look out for number one, piss on the rest of them".....that is an attitude/concept that I never could grasp or live with. So I will either leave a week ahead of time, possibly all unnecessarily......or wait MY turn!

It sounds so scary there. I pray that everyone stays safe and that your homes are unharmed. Being a member of YT has brought so many people and pups close to or hearts that we never would have known. Although I've always been concerned about these weather events and other natural disasters, I now have people throughout the world that I have grown to really care about. I have been praying about you.

We are in for at least a week of sunny HOT weather!! You are right....so many events happen all over the country/world,and we have met so many members on YT, seems we are "touched" at any given time all over the world!!! We are good here in Houston for this week....people trying to start over, pulling all the destroyed furnishings from flooded homes....very traumatic....

What an exhausting experience.

My home and pets are all fine and I am soooo thankful. I have learned things about myself and who my real friends are. It was an enlightening and terrifying few days.

People not too far from me lost everything. It's heartbreaking. Seeing livestock stranded makes you feel helpless. But, seeing strangers helping other strangers is uplifting. I just wish it didn't have to take a disaster for people to remember what's important.

Texas has really taken a beating rain-wise this year. I wonder how many of us will be praying for rain come August, though.

Still praying for all who have been affected by this weird weather.

I never thought I'd be so happy to see sun and nineties.

We live about 1/3 of a mile from the Brazos river. Someone posted this drone video two days ago, and it shows what would have happened here if not for our levee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oquv...ature=youtu.be

Isn't that freakin amazing what those drones can record? Look at all the houses that would have been flooded if that levee would have been breeched......I KNOW you are thankful!!!

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.