I went to the Chronicle website this morning and there were 'flood report' dots all over the city. I lived there for almost a decade and you can imagin how I felt one morning when I woke up and saw my cat drinking from water in the carpet in my dining room. Picky cat...preferred the freshest water.

The massive fast rainfalls that you are getting hit with will fill those reservoirs upstream of Buffalo Bayou....and then the mosquitoes come.

Hope you stay safe and as dry as possible.

Ugh, mosquitoes! We didn't have any frost last winter so they are already horrible. Animals are funny, aren't they? My dog would do the same thing. She prefers water from from the toilet to her bowl any day.

Hope you all stay save and nobody gets hurt.

My heart goes out to everyone. Please be as safe as possible. I can't believe it is happening again and to so many in the same place.

Glad your safe springrosemama! Our prayers go out to all effected by this flooding!

Thank you all. Brittie, I'm glad you're doing all right. It has been so heartbreaking to see the devastation all around us. Seems like either flooding or drought around here.

I know! I was happy to see that all of those horses were rescued. I forget where they were located.

Brittie I'm happy that you and your family are safe. Very sorry about your home thou. Realize life is the most important thing. Still it's devastating.

There was one horse rescue that happened close to me, near Cypress Creek. It was amazing.

We had flooding from Cypress Creek at the end of our street. We received about 9.5 inches overnight - way more than we had expected. One neighbor's house flooded, and they got out before the water got to the house, but the water was rising rapidly at that point, so they couldn't salvage anything. Everything else in my neighborhood is soggy, but safe.

Very scary!! Be safe everyone!

Carol

Glad everyone is ok. I am about a hour south east of y'all and we had a huge amount of rain several weeks ago, 18 inches in less than two days, my house was fine but it was devasting to so many others. My house flooded in 1994 and it's a horrible experience. They told us it was a one time deal and we would never flood again, we didn't have flood insurance either, but after that experience we have had flood insurance every year without fail. I saw the horse rescue, that was awesome, so glad they were able to save them. Brittie hope your house and yard dry out soon.

Also glad to hear everyone is ok...

Sounds like you're close to me, plantloverkat. I'm glad you're doing ok.

Glad people are okay. We lived in a few different places in Louisiana. When we were in the Lake Charles area, I remember seeing on the news about areas of Houston flooding everytime they got quite a bit of rain. Flooding has got to be one of the worst things to go through. We got a taste of it when we lived south of Erath, LA right after Hurricane Rita hit and then the storm surge rolled in. Our kids school had 6ft of water and we couldnt even get to our house for a week after we evacuated because it was south of the school. There was a little graveyard near the school and some of the crypts/coffins were damaged and open. Completely nuts! Everything is so gross afterwards too. Safety of people and pets were the most important thing. The rest, while devastating, not so much. I drove down to pecan Island which flooded even worse, about a week afterwards. There were houses and parts of them strewn everywhere. I took lots of pictures so our kids could remember everything. Some of people actually setting thier house on fire, i guess, because they were so damaged from the flooding.

There are heartbreaking photos on the Weather Center. I do want to kick the reporters who say "they didn't have time to drive their cars to higher ground"

Dudes, higher ground is a parking garage if you are lucky. Otherwise it can be several counties away.

Thoughts and optimistic hopes for you all.

My goodness - 9 inches in a day and 18 inches in two days? No wonder you're counting your blessings and drying out as best as you can. Our hearts go out to you as you're literally weathering the storm. We got the tail end of your storms here in Nebraska, but the 3 inches it dropped were a huge blessing as we were very very dry and I'd been watering the vegetable garden since mid-March (oddest thing). Hopefully things get back to a better balance for you and you don't start following up the floods with drought.

Hang in there

Cynthia

It's raining again and Cypress Creek is overflowing about a mile away. We're still pretty high and dry.

I hope it doesn't rain for long! My yard can't hold anymore, I have huge puddles of water that won't go away because the ground is already so saturated. They look like mini ponds all over my yard. The dog is getting limited space to potty too, she doesn't like to get her feet wet :). Praying for you to stay dry!

Yet here, we're so dry - lots of grass fires. I haven't seen it so dry here ever. Wish we could even it out somehow. Stay safe.

Carol

Rain and hail here, but it seems like it's moving out pretty fast.