I wonder how things are in Houston.

[Igel]

35. All the freeways are clear.

Not all are open. Most look like any "before" shots. One thing you could notice was the high-water indicators on the plants. If it was underwater it has a layer of dirt on it.

One bayou (Buffalo bayou) is still at flood stage because they're draining the dams out in the west, but the highway surface that was flooded near the dams is dry or could be. Some of the road is trashed--the surface was built for cars, not for 8 feet of water rushing over them for a week. Pot holes, sink holes, other damage keep that road closed now. The other roads ... are pretty much fine. They filled up and mostly drained in a day or two. They flood from time to time. About 4 miles south of me on the main N-S freeway the highway dips down under another major highway. Saw footage of people swimming there during the floods. It's fine, and nobody notices the bathtub line.

Those two dams in west Houston have a strange reputation, but we've gone out there for play and picnics a few times. You don't know they're dams most of the time. The basin behind Barker dam is huge--maybe 5 long and a couple miles wide. The floor of the dam is picnic areas, baseball diamonds, football and soccer fields, hiking and jogging paths. It's a giant recreational area with a lot of green. If it rains hard they close the barriers at the entrances and that funny berm or dirt wall you passed entering it from the N or E and thought was a landscaping feature to wall off suburb from a county park becomes a dam.