. . . . . . . and good riddance!

Last evening, after 5 days gray, pounding rain and howling winds, Harvey finally moved on - here are a couple of shots of the last of Harvey's clouds in our area.

Here in Lake Jackson (about 50 miles south of Houston), we had it comparatively easy with only about 14 inches of rain total. We had a wild Friday night with tropical storm force winds as Harvey came ashore as a cat 4 at Rockport around 75-100 miles south of us. Also, when the storm turned around and then went north, we had some rough winds about 24 hours ago. Remarkably, we never lost power and were only briefly without cable/internet service a couple of times. Our moment of truth will come tomorrow or Friday: the Brazos river is at record levels and will spill into the watershed of Oyster Creek which winds its way through our town. A portion of the creek runs behind houses across the street from us; it's never come close to leaving its banks during the 22 years we've been here, but there's always a first time. We're crossing our fingers.

Daughter Abbie, son-in-law Donnie and granddaughter Claire, who live in the Kay area west of Houston, came through with no flooding. Both Donnie and Abbie are working at shelters, and Donnie and a friend used a boat to rescue one of Donnie's colleagues yesterday afternoon. This fellow and his wife will be staying with our kids for two or three weeks.

It's been one crazy week!

Jer

[dcmsox2004]

adios harvey... good riddance to ya..... glad to hear you and yours weathered the storm, but the news about the thousands of others is heartbreaking... dave m

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Jer
Hope you and yours all fared well....
Take care as family and neighbours are bought together


Ivan

[volley]

Good to hear you and yours are ok Jer!
I had booked a flight to Houston for Sept. 10th for the annual Turbomachinery Symposium but the event was cancelled ... the George R. Brown convention center is used as an emergency shelter right now.
Take care, my friend

[Sailor]

adios harvey... good riddance to ya..... glad to hear you and yours weathered the storm, but the news about the thousands of others is heartbreaking... dave m

Thanks, Dave. We're dry so far. We're crossing our fingers.

Jer

Jer
Hope you and yours all fared well....
Take care as family and neighbours are bought together


Ivan

Thanks much, Ivan.

Jer

Good to hear you and yours are ok Jer!
I had booked a flight to Houston for Sept. 10th for the annual Turbomachinery Symposium but the event was cancelled ... the George R. Brown convention center is used as an emergency shelter right now.
Take care, my friend

We're doing well so far, Norbert. Thanks for thinking about us.

Sorry you won't be in Houston; I was looking forward to seeing you again.

Jer