Well, we're still at home in Brazoria. When Harvey came ashore this morning it was downgraded to a tropical storm. It's still windy and intermittent rain out there but ditches haven't overflowed. We've even had a few intermittent periods of sunlight.
We lost power around 6 PM yesterday. I called the power company (Texas-New Mexico Power Company), and got a recording: they were aware of the outage, crews were working on it, and they expected power to be on by5:00 AM Saturday. But it came back a few hours later.
Governor Abbott has announced mandatory evac for residents along the San Bernard River and voluntary evac for residents along the Brazos River. We're about a mile from the Brazos and the land between us and the river is heavily wooded. County Road 400 runs more-or-less parallel to the Brazos (meaning it doesn't meander like the river does). Forecasts indicate that the Brazos won't rise higher than it did last spring when it overflowed CR400 several miles south of us.
Map: http://tinyurl.com/416-912A-77422
So we're probably going to ride out the whole storm here at home. And all of our efforts to get things organized for the trip to Katy have turned into housecleaning.
The Brazos River: El Rio de los Brazos de Dios!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazos_River
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