Texas forum members you all ok?

We live in Katy Tx. and received ~25" rain from Friday night (8/26) to Tuesday night (8/29) but we stayed high and dry. I've never seen so much rain in my life.

Living in Austin, other than the rain going on non-stop for a few days, combined with a few blown-down fences, it wasn't anything I've not seen before, especially come March and the wild-and-wooly weather that we get.

We have now received 32.4" inches of rain. Luckily our house and rig is still dry. IT'S still raining here but we are now waiting for the Brazos river to crest at 59' . That is 4-1\2 feet higher than the previous record of 54.5' . Hopefully we will stay dry. It's getting dicey for us.
I feel so sorry for all the people within 150 miles of the Texas and Louisiana coast . Flooding is everywhere.
I would like to thank all of the volunteers with their boats ,canoes, kayaks for rescuing all the people . And a Special thanks to the Cajun Navy from Louisiana for showing up with all their boats and air boats.

pnichols wrote:
I wonder if RVs facing lengthwise to the winds did better than those facing sideways to them ... or were the winds kindof coming from all directions at times?

The winds from a hurricane swirl around. No strategy is safe.

delete ...jim

I wonder if RVs facing lengthwise to the winds did better than those facing sideways to them ... or were the winds kindof coming from all directions at times?

rockhillmanor wrote:
There is 'was' an RV park in Port Aransas, Texas that was completely totally wiped out. Pictures of 5th wheels torn apart and TT's and MH's ripped of the frames and thrown all over. I pray that all those people evacuated and no one stayed behing to ride out the storm in their RV.

Pictures all over the internet. This definitely looked more like a Snowbird seasonal park than a mobile home park where people lived. By the concrete pads, shore stations and type of RV's.

If anything these horrific pictures stand to show people that one should never hunker down in an RV in a storm.

They refer to one of the RV parks destroyed as a 'caravan' RV Park. Anyone from Texas know what 'caravan' refers to?


Credit: AP / Eric Gay)An overturned trailer sits in a park in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Aransas Pass, Texas. Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday.

In-laws were there. Left in plenty of time. Trailer rolled on it's side and was pushed about five sites over. Patio was in a scramble. Golf cart was on it's side against a palm tree nearly submerged. No worries. There were a few MHs that seemed to be upright so not a total loss although probably flood damage. Most units look to have rolled out.

In the Tyler area and all is well. Headed for the Corpus area very soon as I am an adjuster and will be semi,full time again

Howdy!

We where born, raised and retired out of Houston, Texas. We are now fulltime RVer's and we have a homebase in Livingston, Texas. We are presently in Florida but our hearts go out to our family, friends and others in Texas. I'm a retired Houston Police officer and have police friends that have been working 20 to 40 hour shifts without relief. This isn't over and it will take a long time for Texas to recover. God bless Texas!

"Happy Trails"
Chiefneon

We're north of San Antonio, on a hillside above the Guadalupe River. Got some S&B roof damage and subsequent leakage, but otherwise are just fine. The trailer rode out the storm just fine. Don't know about our motorhome; it's out west of San Antonio, being updated. But I believe that area was in the 1'-3" rain bands, so it's probably fine, too.

Most folks who have boats out here have headed to Houston to help pull folks out.