houfit Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Flooded streets and extremely limited visibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownWxBoy Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 Flooded streets and extremely limited visibility. Times like that I am glad I don't work a 9-5 job.... all of my commutes occur outside of rush hour times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecondTour Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Driving home was fun today... That is an incorrect statement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lockmat Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 It was even more so today. I don't know what people are thinking going through that high water. I'm not even sure why most people were out on the road. I was helping move a friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 I was stuck on 45N around Little York for a while - those feeders and the neighborhoods to the east always flood badly.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff8201 Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 I must say driving home was fun last night for everyone along I-45 from Hobby to Leauge City.I was heading down to Dickinson and the number of cars stopped on the freeway just waiting it out in the emergency lane was extraordinary, hundreds of cars just chillin waiting for the feeder road to be a road and not a lake.By 11pm the I-45 feeder road after taking the NASA exit going northbound was under water, the parking lot at the Cinemark was completely under water. If you went to the movies last night, I bet when you got back to your car, you were pretty pissed.I was out in it trying to get to back up to Bay Area Blvd. to get my girlfriend from work and myself and her Step Dad got stuck ourselves. We were in a GMC Envoy and in making it down the side streets we encountered flood water that literally went over our hood for a second. But we made it.We got back down via Highway 3.... which I was told is really flood prone, yet did not flood at all last night.Weekend Monsoons seems to be the tradition in Houston now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 We got back down via Highway 3.... which I was told is really flood prone,this is a first. this is one road that i've never heard anyone say it floods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumber2 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 this is a first. this is one road that i've never heard anyone say it floods.Between League City and Dickinson it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Between League City and Dickinson it does.ah ok...at least geoff had no probs on his way to dickinson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownWxBoy Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 (edited) Could be another stormy afternoon... severe weather and flooding rains possible... be careful driving! Edited April 27, 2009 by HtownWxBoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff8201 Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Between League City and Dickinson it does. Yea, that's where I meant... it's not my normal side of town so I forget Highway 3 is a long road. ah ok...at least geoff had no probs on his way to dickinson. Luckilly I was on the freeway the whole time all the way till 517, which didn't get anywhere near as much rain as it did just a few miles north. Glad I headed down there earlier than I originally planned and that I lucked out on not hitting floodwater. If I had my new G6 would be floating away and I would be out cursing, punching people...Probably making the nightly news. Construction at Nasa and 45 didn't help anyone either.... in fact seems like every new road they build, it just gets flooded even worse than before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakotafleming Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 Yea, that's where I meant... it's not my normal side of town so I forget Highway 3 is a long road.Luckilly I was on the freeway the whole time all the way till 517, which didn't get anywhere near as much rain as it did just a few miles north. Glad I headed down there earlier than I originally planned and that I lucked out on not hitting floodwater. If I had my new G6 would be floating away and I would be out cursing, punching people...Probably making the nightly news. Construction at Nasa and 45 didn't help anyone either.... in fact seems like every new road they build, it just gets flooded even worse than before. I got stuck in HEB for 30 mins waiting for the sideways rain to quit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barracuda Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 The hour and a half I spent driving from Chimney Rock and I59 to IAH from 5:30-7pm last night was a blast. I might do it again tonight just for fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahiki Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 The hour and a half I spent driving from Chimney Rock and I59 to IAH from 5:30-7pm last night was a blast. I might do it again tonight just for fun.Yuck! That's bad during a normal rush hour. I can't believe that after the work on 59, it still backs up so badly heading north into downtown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barracuda Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 Yuck! That's bad during a normal rush hour. I can't believe that after the work on 59, it still backs up so badly heading north into downtown.I think that's a sore spot with a lot of people. I have mixed feelings about any expansion of the 59/288/45 mix since I live on the east side of Midtown. It doesn't seem like the rebuilding of 59 accomplished much when it comes to the funnel at 527. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 (edited) Through yesterday we were less than half an inch from a precipitation record for the month of April, so I think it's safe to say with last night and this morning we have a new record (10.49 inches through yesterday, old record 10.92 in 1976)http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/climate/iah/ex...iliah-top10.htmStill nowhere close to the mega-record for a month, 19.21 inches in June 2001 (duh). I found it interesting that April has the second lowest record precipitation (Feb) when for some reason it's known for its showers. Edited April 28, 2009 by 20thStDad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 living on a relative central houston island, i'm lucky enough to never even been close to flooding. While i noticed the clouds and winds on the way home, i had no idea we had the amount of flooding around town last night till i hit up the morning news and it didnt hit till crossing over memorial at shepherd at lunch.which by the way, the cops are doing a halfass job at that intersection.. saw numerous people try to turn west on to memorial there only to slam on their brakes, and have to do a u turn in the middle of the west bound lanes to merge back into the southbound shepherd trafficanyways.. my wife just sent me the ever captivating and exciting buffalo cam..http://204.235.237.45/cefwebcam/enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownWxBoy Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 I told yas it was going to storm bad... ... didn't think it would be that bad, though... or that it would continue overnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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