Hurricane Harvey: Wish you the best, Houston and coastal area. Be careful!

DoubleEgger

@tarheelmatt is going to need to make some alternative arrangements for his Fleshlights 

Legume

Acn said:

Good advice here.

I wonder if the list for Florida will be, um, more flexible.

kl8ton

@JohnInCarolina

Run this in the ole FEA machine!

http://fox17online.com/2017/09/07/geophysicist-weight-of-harvey-rains-caused-houston-to-sink/

NPHuskerFL

@Legume The Keys maybe

The Cen-Tex Smoker

DoubleEgger said:

Just read that HEB donated $5mil to JJ Watt's fund. HEB sounds like a special place. 

That was not even a cooperate donation. That was a personal donation from the CEO of HEB.

TideEggHead

On the way back from Houston/Baytown area... We've been mucking/gutting houses for the last 4 days... pretty bad down there, it was hard to see... my heart goes out to all the people down there... FLORIDA better buckle up for Irma, guys y'all need to stay safe, this one will be worse than Harvey.... If you get the evacuation call I'd get out while you can but that's just me.

nolaegghead

I helped gut a co-worker's house after the Baton Rouge area flooding.  5 feet of water in the house.  She had about 60 dead chickens, maybe 40 lived.  Everything stunk something fierce.  I puked at one point when I picked up a bag of dog food which spewed out one end - it liquefied and putrefied looked like something coming out of Linda Blair.  Triggered me barf mechanism.

caliking

Filled gas at Costco today. they were all out of regular gas at all the pumps. Only had premium. So they marked it down to the regular price. 

I thought that was pretty classy.

Legume

caliking said:

Filled gas at Costco today. they were all out of regular gas at all the pumps. Only had premium. So they marked it down to the regular price. 

I thought that was pretty classy.

Pretty sure Northern Tool wouldn't have done that.  Might've been cost at an HEB.

HeavyG

I think an event that might happen once in 500,000 years fairly classifies as EPIC.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

TideEggHead said:

On the way back from Houston/Baytown area... We've been mucking/gutting houses for the last 4 days... pretty bad down there, it was hard to see... my heart goes out to all the people down there... FLORIDA better buckle up for Irma, guys y'all need to stay safe, this one will be worse than Harvey.... If you get the evacuation call I'd get out while you can but that's just me.

Good on you, sir. Thank you so much. 

Focker

TideEggHead said:

On the way back from Houston/Baytown area... We've been mucking/gutting houses for the last 4 days... pretty bad down there, it was hard to see... my heart goes out to all the people down there... FLORIDA better buckle up for Irma, guys y'all need to stay safe, this one will be worse than Harvey.... If you get the evacuation call I'd get out while you can but that's just me.

Couldn't fathom grabbing a mask, boots, and hammer, tough work....kudos.

TideEggHead

HeavyG said:

I think an event that might happen once in 500,000 years fairly classifies as EPIC.

Sounds about right, in one of the neighborhoods we went to last week on the east side of Houston they measured 61.25 inches of rainfall.

TideEggHead

@The Cen-Tex Smoker @Focker Thanks guys! Just wanted to help people that were much less fortunate than we were with this hurricane. Having known people who have lost everything before, going over and helping out (and they need a lot of it) seemed like a no brainer. I heard they had something like 166,000 houses in the Houston area that needed gutting/repair. It was heart warming to show up at a house and start working only to have random people who don't even know the homeowner show up, grab a shovel, hammer, and pry bar and start helping (many of whom also lost everything).