This is mostly a correction to my post 48 hours ago. Rainstorm Imelda hung around, ( as forecasters warned was possible ), but only dropped about 8 inches of rain inside the city limits of Houston. Surprisingly some specific low spots that always flood, had severe to extreme flooding and caught a lot of people by surprise ( even though they had 4 days of warning ). A majority of people probably missed work today. So many people in southeast Texas ( thousands ?? ) do not have a high enough IQ to understand the term "flash flood." I almost got caught in this one, as it was so hard to skip work, but I sheltered in place.
On a totally different note, I was driving yesterday in a part of Houston that I had not been in 23 years. It was where my caving friend, Charles Haskett, had fallen out of a tree. The old run-down neighborhood had many new homes and the tree was gone. Also, in other news An old caving acquaintance whom I very deeply admired, Victoria Arbizu-Sabater, has returned to live in Spain. GHG old-timer, Mike Connolly is still trying to get healthy. I have survived 5 weeks renting a room from my Craigslist roomlord. On another topic, I do not know if I met Lee White at the past NSS Conventions, but he sounded like someone who I admired. 2019 has been a difficult year for the caving community. Another rant, It is going to be interesting next week to see how many of the newly developed areas flooded ( ones retardedly built after Tropical Storm Harvey ). I say storm, because Hurricane Harvey never hit Houston proper. Why are Houston school buses and gov't vehicles here not better at handling high water ? But more importantly, why do officials park them in low-lying areas to purposely let them flood ? Also, All the caving discussions are clearly on Facebook now.
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