Oh my goodness! Please be careful. Don't mess with Mother Nature!

That is a lot of water and you are right not to try to drive home. People disregard the flood warnings and actually drown trying to drive home. I hope you have flood insurance.

Oh my, that is awful. Be very, very careful.

Good grief! that much water moving swiftly is something to treat with respect -- glad you are taking it seriously!

Wow. Yes rapidly moving water can knock you off your feet even if you're only calf deep.

We were flooded during Hurricane Floyd. My neighbor in the back put his waders on and went out in the water to just see how deep the water was. He said he couldn't believe how strong the current was. Be careful. I hope the house doesn't flood.

You really do want to be swept off your feet playing in that water. Be careful and get back in the house.

One thing that is different about floods in Houston is that the water just sits there and doesn't move, as Houston is pretty much completely flat. That may make it slightly less dangerous (except near the bayous) but it also takes longer to drain away. I've seen a lot of people go out in boats or on surfboards during floods in Houston.

The plus: You never have to water your lawn. Moni...I'm sure your fine, but that is a LOT of water!

Flood waters and storm runoff can have a lot of nasty stuff in it, chemically and biologically. It's better to stay out of it, especially if you have any skin cuts or openings. Remember to wash off well with soap and water afterwards if you can't avoid it.

I sure would not be standing in a flooded street with a smile on my face! I would also wash well after that dirty water touched my skin. Hope it is receding by now and that was the worst of it.

Looks like you got a street cleaning. It doesn't look like any homes were flooded, (thank goodness ) if the water wasn't high enough to get in the engine no harm was done to the cars.

That would be just be an annoyance in my area. We have hills, valleys, rivers, and creeks. If you live on the flats by a river or creek it isn't if you will get flooded, it is when. Usually it just floods basements sometimes the 1st floor causing property damage , and makes cars junk. Usually it is in the spring or fall. Occasionally we will get flash floods that is a wall of water roaring down a valley. Those are unexpected and cause loss of human life .

Mild or major flooding you really do not want to stand in it. The force of the flood waters will lift up sewer lids and sewer water will mix in with the flood water. Yuk.

The flood waters during tax day flood in Houston were flowing so forcefully they blew out the bottom of the back wall of my house! In the Harvey flood it was like a rushing river. As we were trying to get to the kayak that was rescuing us, we could barely stay on our feet. Water was chest deep. Had to climb up in the back of the pick up truck to get high enough to get in the kayak. So the water is definitely not always standing still. In fact the air boats trying to get farther in the subdivision closer to the creek couldn't get there because of the force of the water going against them.

The water is deadly in many ways! Not only can you drown, it's very dangerous due to the contamination. From pesticides, petroleum products, and especially the overflow of the septic tanks! It becomes an Ecoli positive contamination zone. Many people here got flesh eating bacteria infections from being exposed to the water. We lost a neighbor right down the street. He got it in a cut on his foot, leg was amputated but it was spreading inside and he died. This serious contaminated is why everything we owned had to be disposed of. And why those cleaning the house out were wearing contamination suits and masks. It upsets me when I see people and kids out playing in the flood waters. I know what is lurking in that water. We also had a lot of dangerous snakes in our floods since we were literally in the creek water.

Be extremely careful and cautious.

Yes, I agree, be careful and I too would stay out of it. I sure hope your city services have kept their drains in good shape so it will go down quick. We have a community in our area where that happened and the drains were so clogged up with tree roots and other cr*p that the water had no where to go. It ended up flooding homes and basements. People can complain about our steep driveway all they want, but I love having a house on a hill.

I live on a slight incline. Down "hill" is the drain, one on each side of the road. Been living here since 2016 and have seen a "river" out front a lot. Usually it is just between the curbs. This is the first time it got higher than that. We had an extreme downpour on Thursday, and now this one. Way to much rain here in OKC.

The very first picture I took at 8:27, and the last at 9:01 AM

2 1/15 of an inch fell during that time.

Here is my first picture

here is the last picture

I didn't take any more, as everything is over, and only a trickle on the far side of the road is present.

Holy cow! I'm glad it left as quickly as it came!! That is a lot of water in a short amount of time!

Stay safe. We get a lot of rain but nothing like you've just experienced.

Another danger is the floating "rafts" of fire ants.

Many that have experienced flooding sing the praises of the Cajun Navy!

We almost went 24 hours w/out rain! Moni, you're neighborhood looks a lot like ours. (w/out the carpet roll)

Last year, we got 6 inches of rain in an hour. The house down the hill from us got 3 feet of water in their house. So very scary!!!!! I hope it stops raining there and you don't get flooded!

A FYI when you get that much rain and there is runoff that does damage to your property your homeowners in most states will not cover the damage. You must have flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program.

Driving in that much or less water the wheels can spray water up into the engine compartment. While it may not damage the engine it can cause damage to the electrical system. My Saturn was totaled by the insurance company as a precaution because of the danger of later electric fires.

Hope you scrubbed your feet and legs, Moni, yuck! Sorry, being a nurse all I could think about is all that bacteria in the water. Stay safe! Got a call this evening at work from a man who is stuck in his home due to flooding river. Needs to go to the ER but can't get out. Been raining for a few days here and supposed to rain a few more.

Oklamoni: I have a relative that lives in Oklahoma City and I got a flood report from him. It must have been the one you are showing. His house is in Oklahoma City on high enough ground not to be affected, but he says, west of his place 7 inches of rain fell in 30 minutes. At that unheard of rate, the water came down, Splat, and flooded the place. One had to be on top of a hill to avoid water pileup.

The problem with a cloudburst and water in the streets up to and beyond the curbs is that the water level is above the floor level of many basements along the street. Should the storm water penetrate the sanitation sewer, it can flood basements with nasty stuff. Where I live, most houses have basements. There are other locations in this country where the norm is no basement, and that can be a plus during cloudbursts.

Central Milwaukee, WI has a basement flooding problem that was caused by an unwise move during the early build-out days of the city. Twenty-seven square miles of the old city has its street and sanitation combined into one sewer! That worked in the early days but became problematic as the city built outward and connected more area to the sewer. The original idea was to use rain water to flush the sewer. Excess liquid was dumped into streams emptying into Lake Michigan. (In today's era, that is a no-no.) As the city grew, so did the problem. And now, it is almost impossible to fix. The City can not afford to tear up 27 square miles of the established core of itself to separate the sewers. Separation progresses very slowly when old sections fail and are replaced.

I recall one flood in Milwaukee. That one may have been in the 1990s. Our baseball stadium is at base of long hill where the outlying land drops into the Lake Michigan 'bathtub'. On the fatal day, a groundskeeper was working on ball field and some of the under-field drains were yet plugged with dirt from rebuilding. In mid-afternoon, a downpour came and water rushed into the stadium. The field was soon covered and employees headed to higher ground in the stands. The drains were mostly plugged and the water rose over the field, then over the dugouts, and finally covering the first two rows of seats. The gounds-keeper saw his car, a VW Bug, floating onto the field.

In 2016 A friend told me of flash flooding in the area of Cincinnati where I grew up.

I managed to find news footage and grabbed a screen shot.

As the video panned up and down the street you could see a coupld of cars that were parked on the street with only an inch or so of their roof showing.

The area I grew up in is pretty close to the center of the maximum rain on the above image.

I slept through it but we had 13 inches of rain that started in the afternoon and ended sometime during the night. I woke up to about 8 inches of water in the basement. I had known through my previous insurance agent that rainwater moving on the ground causing damage was considered as being a flood. But when I originally checked I was not in a flood plain. The mapping has been changed so I am currently eligible.

The number of people who ran their sump pumps into the sanitary sewers, a major no-no, helped cause the sewer backup that prevented my basement from draining. Without the backup there would have been no insurance money to help in the cleanup. Sewer backup is also an extra rider here and if I ever have the basement redone I will raise the coverage so that it would cover all the damage not just partial.

We got that storm yesterday. 4 inches in an hour. It was the highest I've seen it since May 2010. Amazing! Awesome. Truly awe inspiring

Stay safe! Those storm drains always scare me.

Moni, you sure have been hit hard weather wisen on OK and other parts of the US. Stay safe