Harvey may have wrecked up to 1M cars / 30,000 to 40,000 homes destroyed in Houston area

[Igel]

9. That was my Wednesday.

She flooded out Saturday night. Spent Wednesday at a friend's house. They had 2, 2 1/2 feet of water in it. Took out gypsum board and insulation up to about 3 1/2 or 4 feet--conveniently that's where sheetrock panels met up. Places like the bathrooms had their cabinet work ripped out. Huge pile o' trash. Same for her side of the street, not so bad on the other side.

Everything that wasn't thickly upholstered was fine. The paper on the insulation was moldy, but anything that was just wood was okay and the studs and framing were fine. They could get into their house on Tuesday but the best they could do was salvage a few things. So after standing water for a day or two and being closed up and flooded for about 3 days it wasn't as bad as we expected. It's been cool, Tuesday topped out at 76, Sunday and Monday at maybe 78, 80.

Don't know about their kitchen appliances. The stove was okay (inset in the counter), don't know about the other appliances. Electricity was out. Left all their stuff outside to dry. Neighbors had set up a sort of overnight street watch just in case.


Entire street was crowded with cars from all the people who were helping out. At the end of the day we still had a heap of sandwiches, pizza, bottled water, soda and even beer from the companies that came along with free food and drink for those recovering. During the year that's part of their customer base, so they returned the "business."