Well.....I'm flooded all to heck!!! See my picture???? Water in my shop and house up to where my hand is on the side of that 4X8 piece of plywood......lost everything that I tried to save from the Hurricane Rita flood 3 years ago!!!!

I think they might make me tear down my house and build up this time!!!!

Oh well.....such is life on the beautiful Gulf Coast........

How did everyone else do???????

i haven't heard a word from my buddy in KIMA...???

Maybe I should ask........Does anyone even care?????

Glad you are okay. Moving might not be a bad idea.

I got it in Ohio, my power went out for a bit but my phone was out for two days.

So sorry that happened to you....

I have friends in the Houston/Pearland area..i've heard from 2 out of the 6..i'm worried but also have prayed for them..i saw the destruction on TV and internet..i couldnt beleive it..lots of homes lost..but material things can be replaced, not lives..

good luck to u..in time every thing will be back to normal..in my prayers here

Gosh, DFW was unscathed, didn't have happen what they expected. I'm sorry you had so much strife in your area. So many effected by that hurricane!! So much devastation.

I don't know what you mean about seeing your picture. Looks like the same photo you always have, so what am I missing?

Hope all goes better SOON!!

glad u are ok.... so sorry for your losses... and so sorry that our government doesnt put more money away for our americans that work so hard for everything they have...i think this is where they should put more funds into and send less funds to other countries to help them with devistations.. its beyond me honestly..

it means... his house is under 3 1/2 foot of water

agreed totally

My neighbor across the street has built his new home up on a 12 foot pile of dirt!!! His is like a fortress now except that his house is up so high that now the wind will get it full force!! LOL......darned if you do and darned if you don't.....I'll probably have to raise MY house too....but being on a slab......It just means tearing down what's there and building new.....on a man made hill......

One of my friends down by the coast came home and THEIR house was just GONE!!!!! It floated off somewhere.......they can't find it!!!

hate the gray winters but im thankful to live in oregon!!!! where none of that stuff goes on..

I don't see the photo on his profile. I got the part about being under water. I thought he meant he HAD A PICTURE of the flooding damage. Thanks for the elaboration???

I evacuated to Athens, Texas in my travel trailer and the eye came between me and Tyler, so I know it wasn't too bad by the time it got there.

I was just describing how deep the water got in my shop.......not quite 4 feet.....my left hand is on that piece of plywood laid on it's side inside my shop......

Yeah.....but YOU have mountains blow up in YOUR part of the country!!!!

yeh well next major hurricane that comes thru here..i'll prob be your neighbor, deb..i wouldnt mind living out there..beautiful country

lol i reread it i see how you got that... i read it the other way when i first read it...

That is just awful.

karen i think there has been like 3 very small earthquakes here though but in 45 yrs... we get flooding very rarely from rain.... and not flooding like ike made!!!! once it was pretty bad think that was 1996.

It seems no matter where we choose to live or end up, there's always some risk!! I wonder if there IS any eden-like place, no flood, hurricane, tornado, quake, sink holes, tsunami, anything!!

It is so sad to see that devastation and it's so munumental, it's dumbfounding for the brain. I don't know HOW folks cope and rebuild, but I guess that is human nature to do it!!

God bless you and your wife!!