The blog gods must be reading my entries because right after I gloated to everyone about how glorious the weather was in Houston, we had the most extreme weather on Monday. This morning, I woke up to a pale green sky and, being a tornado-alley born girl, I knew exactly what that foretold. Over the next few hours, Houston took a pounding of tornadoes, hail, severe thunderstorms and flash floods. I was stuck in traffic for over five hours trying to drop my car off to be serviced. At times, it's okay to have a conservative and safe personality and today it totally paid off. I saw more cars than I can count think they could drive through the high water and have to get towed out because the owners flooded their engines. I may have sat idle in the middle of the road for over two hours but at least I didn't have to "float" down the middle of the street and chalk up my vehicle as totaled. I also asked myself around 20 times why I don't own a truck - must remember for future vehicle purchases. While taking some back roads to get back to work, I saw blocks of houses under water as well. I hope everyone in the blogosphere is safe, warm and DRY. Happy Monday folks!
Oh man, I can't believe it! We were all over the news today! But that's Texas weather for ya!
ReplyDeletewow - that is extreme! keep safe!
ReplyDeleteOh my - hope you´re doing OK!
ReplyDeletesorry about the bad weather but look at the bright side that Texas needs water...ha!
ReplyDeleteWhoa, that's really scary. Glad you're alright. I would totally be a wuss and do as you did, or just hide in the highest tree I could find.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised I didn't hear about this! Glad you're okay. Some of the surrounding areas where I live have seen a lot of flooding recently as well (recently as in 2011). Weather's been crazy lately.
ReplyDeleteI saw this on the news on Monday! It's crazy that you had such nice weather just before. I hope you are ok.
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