Glad I don't live even like 10 miles south of where I do, or in the city of Houston proper. Friends sent me a picture and the water is quite high, and who knows how bad it will get in the next few days.
Good luck down there, man. I have another friend that posted pics from Katy, and i remembered that you lived in that area too. Hopefully tye worst is over.
Honestly, other than some water in my back yard, and water that I think is leaking under one upstairs window (onto my downstairs front room wall/ceiling) there's no problems near me. No standing water in the road or anything, in front of my house there is a bit of higher water than a normal rain on the road near the edge, but it is moving swiftly and probably isn't even 1/2".
God, I can't watch any football. The news is on instead. And I can't stream because it is supposed to be a nationally broadcast game apparently.
It won't let you go to NBC.com and watch? I thought that most of their games were available that way. They seem to promote that feature a lot.
Ok, now I am starting to get concerned. I don't know that I could leave my neighborhood, if I even wanted to Not that could get somewhere from there. Water keeps rising out front. Hopefully not too much by morning and I can move stuff upstairs potentially if it keeps climbing.
Stay safe, man. I live in downtown Houston near 288. It is all f'd up from the pics I've seen. I took the family down to I-10 to San Antonio 2 days ago before it got bad. I have friends stranded in Houston and Galveston. It is crazy. Call 281-464-4851 if you or anyone you know needs rescue.
Somehow all the water around our house is gone this morning. It is freaking eerie, almost like it didn't happen. I mean I am glad it is gone, but the front of the house and roads behind our house had to have had a lot of water (even if it was moving somewhere) and now nothing. Like I think a boat or waverunner was out last night, and cars are now out there without issue. In other news my work is closed all week. Not sure how I feel about that.
Dude eerie or not that is effing awesome. I just don't think you're out of the woods yet though so hang in there.
**** you water, stop climbing and raining. Road behind us as full as it was at like 11pm last night, if not more. Road in our subdivision hasn't reached last nights height, but grrrr.
Some people not too far from me must be evacuating. I saw a truck with a dozen people in the bed being take towards a main road. Then a fire dept. transport vehicle went the way that truck had come from. It's bed at least looked like that, but the truck was fire dept. colors. And it is pretty much curfew now, since it is at dusk. We moved some stuff upstairs since we're worried. Hoping it clears up some like it managed to last night.
My wife and I are selling our house, and I feel really weird this this is the start of our last week living in it before we move. I've lived here since 2005, when I was 27, and I'll turn 40 in a couple of weeks. She'd bought it in 2003, so its basically where we've lived our whole relationship, and has been home to most of our major life events. Its the only home our two kids, age 6 and 3 have ever known, and my older daughter is taking it hard. In the end, we're building a bigger, nicer house in a better location that will have access to a lot of things that we're unable to get where we've been, so its eventually going to be a step up. But in the mean time, we've moving into my Mother In Law's basement for a number of months, which is fairly large, but is one big open room plus a bathroom, and will be a lot different than what we're accustomed to, and will come with challenges. I'm focusing on the reward at the end of the road, but there will be frustrations in the mean time.
Put my dog Ally down this morning. We had her spleen removed in April, due to anemia and presence of something on ultrasound, and it came back as cancerous. Prognosis was 6-9 months, but sadly we didn't even get that.
Yeah, I did it earlier this year too. Still not totally ok about it. There's a lot of people that can't be there for them like that in the end and holding them when they go. Which is just pathetic to not be able to suck it up and be there for them. So at least you were which is no doubt what she wanted.
LOL at the new Mercedes E63 AMG commercial that I just watched. Let me see if I can find it. Ok got it. Best. car commercial. ever.
Sorry Stitches, I had to put my cat of 15 years down a little over a year ago, and it still ****s with me. No matter how bad it sucks sometimes, please know you did that best for that pup that you could with the cards you were dealt. yea, it sucks ******* but you did the right thing. Also, **** the Jets.
Our oldest dog is 11 and about 90 pounds- she's a lab mix. About a year ago, about 90% of her hair fell out from something- three different vets couldn't figure it out. It was some kind of auto immune disease is the best they could come up with. She was in pain too...could barely move at times and had rash/blisters all over....so every day we got up and thought, "Is this the day we bring her to the vet and say goodbye?" I mean, we tried about a half dozen different treatments, spent close to $1,000 and nothing worked...it seriously sucked. So about 7 months ago we decided it was the day, but I wanted to give her a bath before taking her to be put down. I use head and shoulders due to dandriff and after I washed her with the special pet shampoo, I figured what the heck....I slathered it on and washed her twice with it. After she got out of the shower, she shook off and ran down the hall towards her food bowl...and that right there bought her another day. It was the most she had moved in a month without us forcing her to go outside, etc. Well, I'll be damned...a few days later her skin sores cleared up....and she started growing hair again about a week later. Now she's getting around fine besides some arthritis in her back knees and she has a full coat of hair. The cool thing is that her patterns are completely different- she used to be mainly light brown with other colors mixed in, now she's mainly darn brown and black. We're just happy she's still with us though. I dreaded watching her suffer and thinking about putting her down every single day. Anyway, if your cat/dog has skin problems, hit em with the old Head and Shoulders and cross your fingers. Even the doctors were amazed since they treated for everything under the sun.
yeah, probably the pyrithirone zinc. that stuff can disrupt yeast cells and when I used to work at P&G, there was some indications it could affect bacteria as well.
That's really, really cool...the vets ruled out EVERYTHING and was positive it wasn't parasites or bacteria. Their best guess was auto immune because there was nothing left- but maybe it was some sort of bacteria that they don't test for. When we brought her into the vet about four months later, they were literally astonished and wanted to do more tests (at their cost, not ours). I'm not a chemist so it's all over my head- we're just super thankful. It was either a divine miracle or Head & Shoulders. I'm leaning towards the latter.
Is that something that can go away on it's own though after 5-6 months? That was the most interesting part to me- whatever it was just stopped within a week of the bath. The ONLY variable that we could find was the shampoo change- same food, environment, routine, etc. She was off the meds at that point as well so everyone was stumped.
You and the vets probably already thought of this, but had there been any exterminators or government mosquito spraying around then?
We're in the middle of nowhere in the country, so I don't think so...there aren't any crops or anything really close that would be sprayed (horse farms about 3 miles in one direction, huge peach fields about 5 miles in another). Our dogs do go out around midnight every night though and run the countryside chasing deer and just being dogs, so I guess anything is possible.
I'd bet dollars to donuts they got into something or exposed to something on their midnight jaunts. Environmental is the only thing that makes sense.
Crazy whats happening here in Vegas, lucky for me I left the strip before everything went down. My brother in law was shot in the arm but is okay.
I'm glad that you're ok man, and that you're brother in law should be ok also. The horrors from that event are almost unimaginable.