I thought I had seen some serious rain. Back in 1994 we got almost 30 inches. A gasoline pipeline burst on the San Jacinto river on the east side of Houston and the river caught on fire. We lived about 45 minutes east of Houston and got something like 24 inches.
In a city famous for bad floods, this was one of the worst. October 1994 brought a rain event responsible for 17 deaths.
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Fall of 1999 a freak storm came in and we got 19 inches in six hours. My wife had just moved here from Wisconsin. She was a little freaked out and asked me if it rained like this often. I said, "Nah, not that often. Maybe once or twice a year." ?
Then came Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Sixty (60) inches of rain. That's a six and a zero, not a typo. I thought I had seen rain. I was wrong. It's hard to imagine something like that unless you live through it.
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This is I-10 between Houston and Beaumont, close to where I lived at the time. We were about 4 miles south of I-10. Amazingly our house didn't flood but obviously many did.
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HURRICANE Harvey has turned a motorway in Texas into a rolling sea as the category four storm continued to lash the Lone Star state. Shocking images show how the I-10, between Houston and Beaumont,…
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So now, even when it's extreme drought, I'm careful about wishing for rain. Feast or famine indeed.