TheCrazySquirrel

It seems my “we are ok” was a bit premature. We did get power back the next day, and we were ok. But as they say: “The night cometh.”

Let me back track a bit. After the hurricane came through we got power back late Saturday. So we came home that night. And since we were tired from basically staying up all night (the hurricane came about 12am-9am) we thought to ourselves “we’ll take a shower in the morning, power is great, yay.”

We had another bad storm during the night. A feeder band created over Houston. It brought lots of rain into a system that was already maxed out from Hurricane Ike. We live close to Mayde Creek (some pronounce May-Dee). Mayde Creek is usually nothing much than a little stream at best. At the time it was full to the top of her banks. Then like 80 bajillion more inches of rain came. Of course I was sleeping through all of this so I didn’t know.

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, we heard early in the morning.
Cliff’s Brain - AHH WHATS GOING ON…oh….why did someone knocking on our door this early?
Teresa at the door - “Hey neighbor.”
Neighbor - “Hey, you should move your car so it doesn’t get flooded.”
Cliff’s brain to himself - “Move the car? It’s in the drive-way.”

Over night Mayde Creek flooded her banks into our neighborhood. My cul-de-sac was now…actually…Mayde Creek. Teresa’s car was at the back of the drive-way and water was starting to come up on it. And we lost power. Again. It was a little surreal at first. I mean who ever expects to see the street under several feet of water. And we lost power again. This time though, we couldn’t leave. We couldn’t leave to go to church (yes we still had it), or to someone’s house with power, or anything. Which was a little weird.

Here are a few pictures. (Click to make bigger) And note - we are high ground of the area.

Teresa’s Car

Our cul-de-sac

Outside the sul-de-sac

This is my neighbors mailbox - half under water.

The water had started to recede at this point. You could now see the blue at the top of that fire hydrant. You couldn’t see that before.

I’m ready to explore the flood!

So yeah, that day kind of sucked. But our house is really high so we didn’t get any water in our house. But we didn’t have power for a few days again, so we have been at other people’s house the last two days. The best part was, if you recall from earlier in the post, after we got power back the first time we came home and went to bed. Then we lost power and we were flooded…so who knows if the water system is contaminated. We hadn’t showered for the third day now. Eeww. And now we can’t leave our house. Great!

But we were lucky. Some people had real problems. We just had some fence down. Others had tree’s down, roof’s messed up, houses destroyed, etc. Galveston - as in the entire island - was….well let’s just that it is really bad off. I mean REALLY bad. Here are a few pictures from the city. (mostly our neighborhood).

This is our "hunker down" spot in the house.

Oh - sorry if you tried to call us, cell phone service is not working very well.