Wet Spring, hot and dry Summer and then Harvey showed up. So far we have recorded over 21 inches of rain at my house in the past few days. NOTHING like what parts of the Greater Houston area has seen. Geography plays a big role in how bad the flooding is here, case in point is that I live about 100 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico and the foundation of my house has an elevation of 221 About Sea Level (ASL), Lake Conroe's normal pool level is 201 ASL and the top of the dam is a few feet above that. Water that flows from the lake here travels down to Lake Houston and then on to the Gulf. With the slope of the land here it takes a while for the water to travel all that way and with the 2-3 FEET of rain that has fallen on Houston there is a bunch of water that needed to move along and it just can't do it fast enough. I heard/saw the weather people saying that 600 BILLION gallons of water has fallen on the Texas coast because of the storm and that folks is a bunch of water.
We are Texas and we will pull through, we will rebuild and I think that there will be a bunch of mowers that will need work. ;-)
Tom