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I thought I’d give a tip of the hat to all the people involved in improving the drainage of the Houston bayou system. 

Hurricane Beryl was down to a tropical storm when it went right over Houston. The two airports got 9+ inches of rain and gusts over 80mph. All the rain stations show more than 7” with a median around 9”

But it all fell between 4am and noon. One home station near my brother’s house got 1.1” in 10 minutes, 2” in 35 minutes, 12+” in 6 hours. If there were gullys in Houston, that would be a gully washer. Nature dumped the whole rain Beryl on SE Texas!

When I caught the news about midnight (Texas time) and saw the rain amounts, I expected really bad flooding. And they did have flooding during the day. I saw an earlier flood report showing flooding likely on Brays Bayou, but by midnight all bayous were in their banks. 

Maybe it was partly due to the south-north track of the storm (roughly perpendicular to the bayous path) but I have to give credit to those that redesigned the drainage. 

Good job!

P.s. My brother installed a house generator in the last 6 months so they wouldn’t be without A/C in a situation like this. He is going to be so full of himself!  Sadly, more than 3 million households lost power and 1.8 million were still without power at 9:30pm. The company hopes to get half of those restored tomorrow.

[M T]

I thought I’d give a tip of the hat to all the people involved in improving the drainage of the Houston bayou system. 

Hurricane Beryl was down to a tropical storm when it went right over Houston. The two airports got 9+ inches of rain and gusts over 80mph. All the rain stations show more than 7” with a median around 9”

But it all fell between 4am and noon. One home station near my brother’s house got 1.1” in 10 minutes, 2” in 35 minutes, 12+” in 6 hours. If there were gullys in Houston, that would be a gully washer. Nature dumped the whole rain Beryl on SE Texas!

When I caught the news about midnight (Texas time) and saw the rain amounts, I expected really bad flooding. And they did have flooding during the day. I saw an earlier flood report showing flooding likely on Brays Bayou, but by midnight all bayous were in their banks. 

Maybe it was partly due to the south-north track of the storm (roughly perpendicular to the bayous path) but I have to give credit to those that redesigned the drainage. 

Good job!

P.s. My brother installed a house generator in the last 6 months so they wouldn’t be without A/C in a situation like this. He is going to be so full of himself!  Sadly, more than 3 million households lost power and 1.8 million were still without power at 9:30pm. The company hopes to get half of those restored tomorrow.