I'm back!
**** all the worst parts of the bible!
Fri-Sat:
We got hit by a hurricane (Fri), then its tornadoes took out 150 homes in my hood(Sat morn), then the next night lightning burnt two more to the ground(sat night).
I chainsawed for 6 hours of so on that Saturday between feeder bands, helping get friends and neighbors back in their homes that tornados ripped the roofs off.
I think we went thought something like 60 Tornado Watches between Friday evening and Sunday. It was just constant.
Heres my screen shot of mesocyclone that cut through our neighborhood.
Damage at our golf course maintenance shack
Neighbors house that got the roof ripped off
Sunday:
Sunday seemed uneventful, I mean it rained 18", then a break in the storm I went into Houston to water rescue my brother-in-law. It got dicey rolling through a rough part with people standing all around in thigh deep water in the rain in the dark, it just didnt make sense. I was worried I'd be shooting, so was the first time I've ever open carried, and this time I had it on my lap in my right hand. Pulled one chicks truck out, but had to turn down stopping to pull others. Water started to rise again and I wasnt wasting myself for them.
Mon-Tues:
Monday am, we realized we were getting more rain than our pumps could keep up with and the waters rose quickly inside our neighborhood, Sienna Plantation, TX. We got notice we were under Mandatory Evac.
So the math said if the levee breached I'd have 6-8' of water in my kitchen. Sheriffs driving down the street with the PA saying "Get out". We scrambled but got nearly our whole house moved upstairs. Helped that my brother-in-law was here.
We were probably one of the last people out going through Riverstone before it flooded. We had my Duramax and my wifes Tahoe, and had the race radios up. I basically treated it like Baghdad. We didnt stop for anything. Cars flooded left and right, I didnt pause to even worry about traffic in front of us, we'd jump into oncoming lanes and keep going, by the time we got through Riverstone, I had a convoy of 15+ cars behind me. From there to our backup location (father-in-laws) it was easy going just torrential downpour. Thats when we discovered his street had 3-4' of water on it. He had never gone outside to check his own street. Let me tell you there was some pissed people in two vehicles.
So we scrambled and Plan A through about Plan H failed due to highwater. We had some friends tell us they had a place a few hours south to come, so we headed south down 59, ended up all the way north in College Station where Texas A&M is 6 hours later. And drove in from the north (you would normally approach from the south).
We stayed in College Station Monday and Tuesday night, but headed back because of reports of looting in our neighborhood. There was water on the road, and the Sheriffs will not patrol in flooded streets or pursue into flood water.
Tuesday night looters evaded cops into high water,
My little nook of Sienna. My house is at the top hidden by a raindrop on the lense. Lets just say thats normally a small little pond below.
Friend of mine Kelly and her husband hauling people from our neighborhood all day Tuesday.
Wed:
We drove back to Houston from College Station, dropping my family off at Father-In-Laws as water has receeded there. Then I roll on to our house solo, only to discover our house had been broken into. Sad and pissed me off at same time. They kicked in a doggy door on our garage and came through house. Left the backdoor, and a sidedoor unlocked. But for the life of us, can not figure out a single thing missing.
So that got me fired up, and my humvee was sitting here but had been having starting problems. I thought I'd solved the week prior, but was a bonehead idiot and made a critical/laughable error. Luckily Brian Allen (1tonzr2)???, we text all the time, he told me I was an idiot and fixed my problem, WHAMO running humvee. So I pick up a buddy, then another buddy, and next thing ya know the Sheriff has us running water rescues.
Now this should piss everyone off. There had been private boaters doing water evacs since Tues/Wed (Cajun Navy/Texas Navy, neighbors with flatbottom bay boats) Texas Parks & Wildlife Game Wardens show up Wed morning and run all private boaters off by noon, then they load up and go home at 3:30. There were still requests for water evacs. So there I am in a stock height hummer on 40's hauling people out. It was stupid. Plain and Simple.
I finally get back to the house after dark. Park the humvee, get in my truck, drink a beer, do some texting, respond to FB, and some emails before driving to Father-In-Laws for the night. When at 8:45pm six Sheriffs catch a car load of looters 2 houses up from me. I'm staying the night in our house. **** a looter! I've got a Thermal Scope, and was ready!
At around 3am, I hear some noise. I grab my Glock 9mm, it has one of those laserlights on it. Noise it in front of house, so I creep up, and slink out the side door. Hear more noise. I'm ready to perforate!!! And I'm scared as **** I'm going to have to shoot someone! I jump from behind the Humvee and flip that laser light on! And this MF'ING black cat scared for its damn life, levitates to 4' in the air, and then hovers over a hedge bush and through the front ya. I think it **** itself, and I nearly did myself. Heart out of my damn chest!!!
Driving around
Water Rescue
Looters getting busted.
Bedside
