[Vhfcn-l] The hurricane

[Don Armstrong]

Right after I sent this out I got an email from one of the guys I was in 
Nam with. He lives on the North West side of Houston. He was high and 
dry but got 37 inches of rain. He said a lot of Black Hawk helicopters 
flying around.  He said "The rice fields on the South side of Houston , 
that are now houses , will be under water for 50 to 60 days."


On 9/3/2017 3:52 PM, Don Armstrong wrote:
> Here in NH gas has already gone up $ 0.40 a gallon minimum. Now we are 
> watching Hurricane Irma out in the Atlantic as the models show 
> multiple paths into New England. Unfortunately up here far to many 
> people think Hurricanes will never happen here.
>
>  I noted on the ABC news the Texas governor says "we can't keep 
> rebuilding in flood prone areas". Houston has had 3 100 year floods in 
> the last 3 years. Reading articles from people that lived down there 
> all their lives that said it is primarily flood plain that used to 
> stay soggy when it was farm land. The developers moved in and bought 
> the land cheap and just kept building.
>
>
> On 9/3/2017 12:07 PM, Bill Wells wrote:
>> Well for us here in Red Rock the hurricane has passed and the fixing 
>> up has begun.  My house received over 20 inches of rain, my 10 inch 
>> rain gauge over flowed twice.  My wife and I had a discussion about 
>> the horizontal rain, when the wind got up to 50 mph.  With the rain 
>> soaked ground giving way to the blown trees we had a few 50 foot 
>> cedar and some oaks fall over.  We couldn’t go anywhere for 3 days 
>> because of the flood waters in the creeks.  When the sun came out I 
>> released my donkeys from their shelter and as they walked around 
>> eating grass they sunk into quicksand like mud under the grass.  I 
>> helped them out and placed the donkeys back in the shelter.
>>
>> There was a cedar falling and was about to break the electric line to 
>> our home so I carefully positioned my tractor and was having problem 
>> because of the wind.  Finally getting a chain on the tree, I notice 
>> the tractor was slowly sinking into the wet ground.  With luck, we 
>> pulled the tree down away from the electric line leaving two very 
>> deed tracked in the ground, a good reason to have a 4-wheel drive 
>> tractor.
>>
>> My son, Kenny has had his university closed until the 11 of 
>> September. The folks just to the southeast of us in LaGrange lost 
>> many houses in the flood waters.  Now the town will look completely 
>> different when rebuilt.
>>
>> As Texans, we will work to get things put back in order no matter how 
>> long it takes.
>>
>> Around Red Rock, we are at the present going thru a fuel shortage 
>> which most service stations are running out of fuel. For you old 
>> enough, remember the fuel shortages of the 1970’s. I don’t think it 
>> will be anything like that.
>>
>> Take care,
>> Bill Wells
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