Glad all fared well in the storm...
I know from some experience they can be pretty devastating... I was in Houston when Katrina hit New Orleans, then was followed a week or so later by Rita that hit Houston about Port Arthur... we had quite a bit of rain out of her.... we were sitting in our house with everything we owned packed and sitting in the garage waiting our house closing and move to Tennessee... we watch water creep up the driveway to within about 3 or 4 feet of the garage door.
Also sat through tropical storm Allison that sat over Houston and rained for 2-3 days.... all of Houston was flooded... my office was a block from I10 that goes through town and we watched semi trucks floating down the freeway..... second day I waited until Dianne got home before I started, (she was closer to home, but still had almost an hours drive.... I finally left the office about 10 or 11 pm...we had a foot of water in the parking lot at my office and water was over the second step of the stairs that lead up to the dock.... it took me until about 3 or 4 pm the next day to get home... and even then I wound up leaving my car parked in 18" of water at a local funeral home on my way and a nephew picked me up in his big dualy Dodge truck and I had to wade out in thigh high water to get to him.
We didn't get a hurricane, but we had some devastating flooding over in middle Tennessee south of Nashville... a number of deaths and a large number of people still missing. In east TN where I am, we had a couple of hard downpours, but otherwise not too much rain.
