Houston proves that big vehicles are necessary for survival!
For those of you who live near Houston, you know what I'm talking about. Yesterday we had massive flooding and numerous tornadoes all around the Houston area. The floods were amazing, and reminiscent of Tropical Storm Alison a few years back.
Unfortunately, thousands of people had their cars flooded trying to get home. But it's days like this that make you proud to own a truck...especially a diesel! I didn't see any diesels flooded during my 2 hour journey home from work (it normally takes 30 mins). I was in my gasser pickup but kept thinking, "Gee...I really wish I was in my diesel X right now." I laughed everytime I saw a PSD pickup just hit the high water with no worries. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif[/img]
Oh well...I guess we won't hear a lot of anti-SUV and anti-truck people on the local news tonight.
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I had a Dr. appointment at 3:00 yesterday, so i was lucky to have left work early, but I still hit some hig water.
As I was running a little late for the appointmet, and wanted to have a little fun, I just took the right lane all the way there. The best reason I have found so far for having the diesel, and also putting the lift on. There were no times that a small car tried to follow me, as I was going trough some spots that were 18" deep at least.
One spot on Holmes road, there was a long line of cars turning around because the road was covered from one side to the other with water. I just went through, and it turned out it was only about 3" deep. I guess they were afraid the road ahd washed out. I figured if it did, I was going slow enoght that i could have just backed out and taken a different route.
All in all, I think it took me less time to get home, as I had a clear lane almost the entire way. Man I love this truck.
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I talked to both one of my sisters and my Mother who still live in Houston. My sister's street has never flooded, including 2 years ago and yesterday it flooded!! My Brother in law took 3 hours to get home from downtown out to just outside the loop off I-10 (in a PSD Ex of course [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]) They said I-10 at the beltway was 12' under water.
My Mother was actually in Sugarland closing on a new house right in the middle of the worst part but they made it back north OK and got the new new house closed quickly.
Haven't talked to my youngest sister and she lives in Friendswood. Her neighborhood was lucky to still be there after Allison. Maybe I should call and see if they are still there after yesterday [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/phoney.gif[/img]
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FR2,
Friendswood actually fared pretty well considering....we had a tornado touch down twice last night. It took the roof off one of the churches here. It landed in the Kroger parking lot next door.
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Frenchy,
You know, I cna't say what the name of the neighborhood is. I know we exit 45, run down about 2-3 miles and turn soutch at a light next to a Conoco station then down to a 4 way and hang a right then a left a few streets later not far form where a closed convenience store and Elementary is. I think it's not far from the Kroger though. Although, it seems like there are 2. One newer one on Nasa Rd 1 maybe and one older one over near old Friendswood?
__________________ 2004 EB Excursion, 4x4, 6.0, everything but step tubes and 2nd row chairs, Magnaflow Exhaust, Isspro Gauges in an under cubby pod, Fumoto sitting on V Codes and Revo 285's.
"Treat me good, I'll treat you better; treat me bad, I'll treat you worse." - Sonny Barger
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FR2,
I kind of know where you are talking about. Friendswood, considering how many creeks we have, did well. We only go about 4 1/2 inches of rain that spanned a 24 hour period. Aside from the wind damage we came through just fine.
I was here in '79 when we got the 40 inches in 24 hours. While I don't wish bad luck on anyone, I am glad we didn't get the bulk of the rain that fell in the area.
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Got an email from my sister. The church that got destroyed is theirs. It's the one I was thinking about.
A meeting that night for that time had been canceled, and another one had gotten out and everyone left about 10 minutes before it hit. Sounds like the tornado (estimated to be a 1 or 2) it did a real number on it. At least no one was hurt!
__________________ 2004 EB Excursion, 4x4, 6.0, everything but step tubes and 2nd row chairs, Magnaflow Exhaust, Isspro Gauges in an under cubby pod, Fumoto sitting on V Codes and Revo 285's.
"Treat me good, I'll treat you better; treat me bad, I'll treat you worse." - Sonny Barger
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age4ever
I also had a Doc's appointement at 2:30 @hwy 6 and spur59, Had a Blast!!! riding in the far right lane giving free car washes away. Almost turned around to do it again!!!
During the BIG floods in the Med Center a couple of years ago, I was in water about 10 inches from the bottom of the window. I knew as long as I didn't suck water in, I should be ok. This thing is a tank!!
Pretty stupid of me to take through such high water(not much of a choice though). But not one ounce of water made it inside. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif[/img]
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No I don't...and I don't really want to know!!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]
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LOL...well, living in Friendswood puts you as one of the top qualified contenders for this type of information. I've lived in Houston my whole life, and it seems anytime we get a little rain Friendswood floods. It was ironic that this last flood didn't affect Friendswood as much as it did other parts of town. You guys seem to get hammered almost every year.
I hope you've got flood insurance on the house! Stay dry, stay safe.
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