Still, it's certainly not wrong.
Friday had to leave work by an alternate route--the road I usually take was flooded, and the alternate route was close to being closed. Businesses on the side of the road had several inches of standing water in them. Several lanes of the freeway I usually take were closed. Then when we were just about home we had to detour to avoid high water.
The last detour was a new problem, and didn't happen until the county gave a variance to a developer saying he prep a site without having a water retention basin on the site. Huge site is now not at the same level as everything else but a foot higher. It was high and dry, no puddles, but the runoff of mud and water clogged the storm drain. There's a lawsuit against the county claiming it's too lax with water drainage regulations and gives too many variances. You have a neighborhood, then a large business or developer comes in and gets a variance to raise a large patch of ground a couple of feet to avoid flooding there but does nothing to mitigate flooding, and then covers it with cement; a neighborhood that didn't flood 5 years ago with 5" of rain now floods regularly with 4" of rain.
Saturday the bayous in the area crested. We didn't notice it going to services north of here, but a fair number of people couldn't figure out how to get out from their neighborhoods. On the way home traffic was truly miserable, and just before we broke free of the clog of traffic we noticed Spring Creek had crested at about 20 feet above its banks. I-45 was high enough to get over it, but all the surface streets for 10 or 15 miles west were closed; if it had crested 22 or 23 feet above its banks, I-45 would have closed as well. I don't think I've seen any river in Texas as wide, and that's a creek usually 2-3 wide in a deep gully.
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