Water Gaah!
Oct. 22nd, 2008 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaSo there's a rainstorm going on. A heavy one, to be sure, but still, this is Houston; these things happen.
Somehow there seems to be more street flooding than normal. A lot more, as in, streets in our area that normally don't have flooding problems are flooding out. I am wondering if there is still debris from Ike choking the storm sewers; I can't think of another good explanation for it being quite this bad.
Our poor car got water up its tailpipe and stalled out no less than four separate times on the way home. The last time was in deep enough water that passing SUVs were threatening to swamp the car entirely. :-(
I was going to try and grade, but I would be writing things like "TRY HARDER, YOU FOOL, YOU FOOL" and "a suffusion of yellow" on the papers rather than actual grades, I suspect.
Our fault for going to Middle Market when it was threatening to rain, I suppose (we made the mistake of going there for groceries just as what was then Tropical Depression Allison made its second pass through town and decided to just sit on us for 24 hours, and barely made it home through the street flooding).
Somehow there seems to be more street flooding than normal. A lot more, as in, streets in our area that normally don't have flooding problems are flooding out. I am wondering if there is still debris from Ike choking the storm sewers; I can't think of another good explanation for it being quite this bad.
Our poor car got water up its tailpipe and stalled out no less than four separate times on the way home. The last time was in deep enough water that passing SUVs were threatening to swamp the car entirely. :-(
I was going to try and grade, but I would be writing things like "TRY HARDER, YOU FOOL, YOU FOOL" and "a suffusion of yellow" on the papers rather than actual grades, I suspect.
Our fault for going to Middle Market when it was threatening to rain, I suppose (we made the mistake of going there for groceries just as what was then Tropical Depression Allison made its second pass through town and decided to just sit on us for 24 hours, and barely made it home through the street flooding).
