I second what Tom said. Praying for all of you!

Let's not let politics ruin the fun we have on this forum.

I hope all of our Texas friends are safe and sound.

I am very sorry too. Good luck to all of you down there. My heart bleeds for you. Maybe my calm cold nights are not so bad after all...

Steve , we know your intent was nothing bad, but in poor taste on this thread, Removing it would show you have respect for that and this might help you Not sure if you knew of a forum that talks of things like this)

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/hottopics

while I understand the urge to let frustration out somewhere ( no better place then between friends that understand) I enjoy this group without politics. For me hard enough to open the news and first I see is another horrendous action. Hardly on FB anymore for the same reason. I would very much welcome a political and religious free group.

Thank you, Steve! :)

I did not see the political posts, but am glad I missed them. I second any help we can offer to our Texas friends!

Thanks for everyone's thoughts and concern. I know the folks down in Houston and from there down to Corpus appreciate your thoughts. Some of them got hammered with over 20 inches of rain in a 24-hour period and they are working hard to get resources in down there to help rescue people.

I am up-coast near Beaumont and, while we have had a lot of rain and some areas are flooded, it's not been life-threatening here. The forecast predicts another ten inches of rain in my area during the next three days. We would be happy to share if someone else would like a little bit of the rain in their area.

Not to forget the life and property-threatening aspects of this storm in other areas, it does pose some unusual conditions for citrus. We might see significant fruit loss from fungal infection since maturing fruit have been wet for quite a lot of days now. We were already pretty soggy from a couple of weeks of off and on rain even before Harvey. I already have a lot of calamondins and a few tangerines falling off the trees with fungal infections. There has been standing water over the root zones of many of my trees and the soil is saturated on all of them.

Here is hoping additional rainfall in the forecast for the folks southwest of me hold up so the rescue teams can assist folks down there.

John, hoping and praying for all of you down there, be safe !

John what's the latest? I am really worried about our friends down there..I saw those images with people in the Nursing Home stuck in water over waist high((

Are you ok? And thunder or tornadoes? The sky must look threatening all the time...

We could use a very deep soaker of rain, we have not had one in years. I am loosing many maples trees to drought up here. NO rain goes more than a couple inches deep for years. Very unusual..........Makes no sense.

Prayers with you!

Players for you guys John!

Well, I just got back from driving around a bit to see how the local areas are doing. Interstate-10 is open except a sign said it was not passable to low vehicles on the west side of Beaumont. Some of the access roads have water only high trucks can go through. Lots of people along some of the local highways have their cars parked up off the shoulder since their yards are flooded. Some houses are flooded and LOTS of people are just a few inches above flooding. My neighborhood has some water over the street but most of the houses are above water. My house is on the high end of the street so I'm fine. The forecast for tonight and tomorrow still has a LOT of rain in it but there is a lot of variability in the different forecast models right now. There is some dry air mixing into Harvey now but it seems to be causing minimal disruption. Harvey is predicted to go a short distance over Gulf waters before curving back inland and up north along the Texas/Louisiana state lines. High ground soil is fully saturated, pretty much all of the low areas are full of water now, drainage ditches and creeks are brim full or flooded so it won't take much more rain to flood even more folk's homes. The forecast for Houston includes more rain tonight and tomorrow....that's where lives have been lost and more are in danger.

Thanks for y'all's concern....Houston needs your prayers....some of us in the Beaumont area may loose property but our lives shouldn't be in danger.

Oh, looking back at Mike's questions....there has only been a little thunder now and then here in the Beaumont area. I'm actually about 30-miles east of Beaumont near the Texas/Louisiana state line. I read there have been scattered weak tornadoes reported each day but little damage from them. The sky looks pretty ominous most of the time but it's often not raining. Seems like only the reddest bands in the radar images produce significant rainfall but there is a LOT of moisture hovering overhead!

John, that's crazy..It seems here on the radar that the rain has shifted to the East and that drier air is moving in. Please tell me that's so...It seems that the heat down there should help you dry out rather quickly I hope. Did you take any pics? How are your trees faring in this too?

Mike

I expected 30"+ of rain, but nowhere near 50"+... unfathomable. I'm sure grocery stores nearby you have begun accepting donations for the Red Cross or some other reputable organization.

If not, here's a link: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation

John, glad to hear things seem to be holding together where you're at. At this point, root rot seems to be the least of the worries!

I know there are other members from the coastal Texas area. I hope you escaped the brunt of the floodwaters.

Also, please remember that the real chaos happens once the floodwaters begin receding.

-Tom

John I am glad to hear you stayed above water and I hope your trees pull through. Nothing has come here but it might. We got a storm of 6 inches 2 years ago and that turned a Norwood Ohio street into a river that washed parked cars away. Our builders push codes to build in areas that choke creek flow and cause massive flooding where none would have occur 20 years ago. I am glad that you have serious building codes to protect against most would be disastrous storms. We have none but then again we only get tornadoes and they are really not worth building against. Each house gets hit by a tornado once every 1000 years average. I go to Cincinnati Mennonite Fellowship. We will be organizing support groups that go and help clean out when things are stable enough that we are not in the way.

Steve

Tom I'll be praying for you when you get your 30 inches of rain. I looked up Bellevue Nebraska down by the river. Sounds serious. I have not seen a disaster since an F5 tornado went though our neighborhood. I was a young teenager and I had no concept of the cost, danger, and damage. One person, in his car, died from a heart attack when he saw the tornado. Cincinnati gas and electric turned of the power when the tornado was spotted and it remained off until the downed lines were cleared. Our current utility, Duke, would not be that together.

Steve

Here is a local update on the Beaumont, Texas area. We are finally seeing sun for a change (yesterday) as the storm moved up toward northern Louisiana. I understand it's no longer a depression so it's really great to kiss Harvey goodbye!

I have been busy at work and power has been off here at the house so I haven't found good numbers yet for our local rainfall totals but we got dumped on as the storm came through here. The eye passed very close (just east) to my house. Oddly, the worst rains have been on the west side of this storm. I read that the rain Houston got is in the order of a 500-1000 year return interval. We are seeing direct rainfall water recede now but we are watching for river crests of reservoirs that are upstream of us. There are rescue teams, DPS, emergency services, boats, trucks with portable commercial pumps and generators, and just a host of different response equipment moving around on the highways. We got power for a few hours yesterday evening but it went back off so we are back on small portable generators to keep our fridge and freezers cold. I have taken some photos so I'll try to post some as soon as I get a chance to download them and edit for posting. Yes, root rot is certainly a trivial concern but this IS a citrus forum and we have an interest in citrus so I'll try to post some updates later on my citrus. I'll speak for all of the folks who are in the southeast Texas and pass on a great big THANKS for everyone's concern here!

Saw the devastation on Tv, that amount of rain water to fall in very short period of time, loss of life and property, so terribly sad. I am glad you are Ok, John!

I'm glad you're ok John. Prayers for all those in Houston.

I bumped into this. It explains some of the fears of Texans even after the storm has slowed and passed. ignore the first 2.5 minutes.

Chemical plant might blow

Steve