So, yesterday's lesson of things not always being what they seem in Houston--continued today. We started the day with a trip to the Houston Costco near the Gallaria Mall in downtown. (A trip, I'd like to add, that took less time than my drive from our apartment to the "local" library on Thursday.) The Costco was nice. It was a Costco. We spent lots of money. Bought hot dogs. Got gas. Costco.
It was lightly raining in the morning, but it was really coming down on the way home. Fortunately, we were back in the apartment by the time the thunder showers really started pouring down. I hadn't seen a storm of this ferocity in a long, long time. The gutters were flowing with white water; one of the young trees outside our apartment broke free from it's support ropes and was bending in the wind; and the water just kept coming. On the news, it said that there were tornado and flash flood warnings in our county.
Fortunately, we didn't get stuck like the poor soul in the car in the picture above, but friends said that Houston hadn't had rain like this since Hurricane Ike. Some of the areas around here were actually hit worse than during the Hurricane. At 6:00 pm, the sun came out, blue skies and kids riding bikes through big puddles. Welcome to Texas!
Check out more info about the storm below:
Houston Area Swamped by Storms, Flooding
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