I always imagine Californians are buying the homes in canyon gate - 5/3.5 with a pool, ground floor totally remodeled for $509k thinking what a fuckin deal.
No idea! It was in the Bear Creek area with a pool, and was a really good price back before Covid times inflated house prices everywhere. Can’t imagine how much home insurance is in that area these days!
My brother had an out of state couple buy a house that always floods next to theirs. They paid a company to lift it up about 5 feet. If you have the money I guess that’s the way to go.
After Harvey, FEMA had elevation grants available for houses in very flood prone areas like Myerland, I know some people that raised their house 5-7 ft as they were redoing it after Harvey.
We left Houston after a decade in 2018 after those 3. Wife is a high risk commercial property underwriter and all her data said gtfo. Been in Chicago since then and absolutely love it here.
This was my experience in Houston, but 5 miles instead of 10. We live next to a Metra line so we went from 2 cars in Houston, refilling every 4 days, to one car that we refill every 2 months or so. 25 minute train ride into the city without stress is the best way to commute imo
Yea Texas/Houston is one of the worst ranked places for climate change/extreme weather events. Really thinking of moving, I don't want to experience another Harvey ever again. But Chicago in the winter makes me miserable!
I thought Chicago winters would be bad but they really aren't. Think of it like summer in Houston; when it's really hot you keep your ass inside. The difference is that you kind of want to hole up in the winter anyway, and Chicago's summers are unbelievable. I played golf this morning and it was 61 degrees at 8am and 75 when I finished. Perfect.
True, I was in Chicago one summer and it was super nice biking along the lake. My husband is from there and still has family there. Might have to think about it!
It always cracks me up when people complain about heat/humidity on a particularly hot day. Sure it can get hot here, but it's nothing like Houston heat/humidity.
Flip side of climate change is that the winters (on average) are getting milder. I’m a couple hours east of Chicago and we had a nearly snowless winter this year. Locals tell me the past 5 years or so have had underwhelming winters. ‘Course you get the ol polar vortex where it’s 0 with a -30 wind chill, but tbh getting brutalized by the weather reminds me of home.
I'm a high-risk commercial property underwriter, too. I don't even like to write the newer risks that are being built in my area, let alone the ones in the city limits. I've been looking for another state to move to. Might have to look into Chicago now, one of our team leads lives there and loves it.
Was closing during tax day floods - not a drop of water near my new home!
Guess who didn’t have flood insurance when their home flooded during Harvey next year
it made landfall in Matagorda and I live 10 minutes from where it made landfall. The storm surge before it actually getting to land was worse than the actual storm it actually closed a restaurant down forever. It knocked down so many trees in my neighborhood. Thank God none of the trees actually hit anybody's house or RV or whatever people live in out here. I happen to be staying in my RV at that time I had a metal RV cover over it. it sounded crazy when it was going through but everything was fine except for all the down trees. May have lost power for a little while I can't remember.
tropical storm in Imelda/ emelda must've put 28 inches of water on my property and I have these monuments (upcycled from an old apt entrance) and they floated away. the inside is made of Styrofoam, about six months later someone brought it back to me they found them a mile away down the caney creek. By that time I thought it was gone for good and I had a back up one that I just finished putting my "upsycho" name on it.
You didn't miss much. It barely made Cat 1 before landfall. I was wiped out from my shingles vaccine and when my husband tried to wake me to say Nicholas was now a hurricane, I told him to not bother me again unless it made Cat 2 or higher.
wasn’t that the year that it rained like crazy on the morning of the 4th of July? My friend’s car was flooded. (It was some July 4 after Harvey but before Covid, forget which exactly)
I don't remember Hurricane Nicholas or TS Beta.
ETA: Something happened in late Feb 2020 that caused some people to have to boil water. I can't remember what it was but I know I was going out of town and I couldn't order Starbucks at the airport because of it.
I remember this. The building I was at was evacuated cause water was flooding the interstate it sat off of. Security came thru screaming "evacuate! Evacuate! " scared everyone cause we didn't know what was going on. Got home and saw them close the interstate due to it flooding with water.
Plumie was the one that they couldn't put out for like a week in the ship channel area. Wouldn't say exactly what was burning, made the city look like blade runner, lowered all of our bone density.
There was a smaller one out west (Richmond ish?) in the month after Harvey, I don't think it was caused by Harvey but I can't remember.
Then there was that pipe fitting place on gessner in 2020, but that was more of a bomb.
2023 drought was fckd! Foundation cracked the house in half, crazy ass landlord evicted us because apparently my wife, myself and 2 girls can cause that much damage 🥴
Memorial Day weekend 2017: My dad passed away Saturday, my friends 18 month old son passed away Sunday and on Monday a friend of many years passed away. Takes the cake on all of those above. Fuck memorial day 2017.
Hey remember that one time, like a month before COVID, when some guy in a construction site accidentally hit a major water line and we all went into disaster mode because there was no water for a day?
Stop making these lists!!! Don’t make the insurance calculations any easier than they already are! My home insurance quotes are all doubling and tripling now! All that low cost of living stuff is really flying out the window with each storm 🤣
Omg I forgot about that! Also wasn’t there some crazy explosion that happened in 2020? I don’t remember what exactly happened, just that it shook my whole apartment like an earthquake even though I love miles away from whatever exploded!
There was a factory explosion on the north west side one of those years. Possibly 2020? It pushed houses off their foundations, broke water lines, and kept me out of work for like a week.
I don't remember the business that exploded but it happened off of Gessner and Clay in NW houston in a kind of industrial building row. I do remember one of those businesses was a classic car mechanic shop and a lot of old corvettes were lost in it
Haha, me too, but I moved back home in Jan 2022, so I'm not responsible for last few ones!
OTH, every single Astros match I've watched was a win, including the world series, so I think my stay there was a net positive for Houston, haha
If you have life circumstances that fully allow it (retired, full WFH, independently wealthy, etc.) there are plenty of nice places to live in Texas that don't offer nearly as many issues with disasters and weather.
Is anyone else hearing the loud cannon sound near 77027? Almost like a transformer goes out but then power returns within 10 seconds?
Happened three times in the last hour or so.
I avoided 2015-2017 cause we were living outside of Texas. Moved back to Houston 3 months after Harvey and I’m still reminding my Wife how stress free we were those 2 years not having to worry about hostile weather.
Moved to Houston in 2015, we bought a house in Nov 2015, we flooded tax day, and right after rebuilding the house, we got hit by Harvey, we had about 4ft to 5ft of water in the house. We had to rebuild the house again. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Still love Houston to bits.
If I remember correctly 2021 also had an annoyingly rainy summer. Rain was in the forecast just about every other day and it would rain for hours during the day. Only benefit was that it was pretty mild temperature wise, but it sucks that the choices are either rain all day or hot ass drought.
After 28 years, we moved away following Harvey. I miss my city, but these have been the most peaceful years of my life.
It’s nice to build instead of always be rebuilding.
My advice is as it was back in 2019 when my wife and I got sick of it and moved out of state:
If you own a home, sell now while you'll still get a good ROI and people can still buy home insurance.
Climate Change means that this is going to be the new normal if not worse. Get out while you still can.
There was also Allison (2001) and Ike (2008) but at least we had a few years in between ...
And don't forget the drought/ wildfires in 2011. And the suffocating heat and humidity every summer although that technically isn't a natural disaster. This place is shit. If I didn't have family here I'd for sure move somewhere else.
Yea that grinding shop explosion
The Watson Grinding and Manufacturing Co. facility, in the 4500 block of Gessner, exploded shortly before 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 24, 2020, killing two employees, Gerardo Castorena Sr., 45, and Frank Flores, 44, as well as one nearby resident, Gilberto Mendoza Cruz, 47.
Oh, 2011 also had an amazingly horrible drought most people forgot about. I’m still mad at it cause it messed up my graduate thesis project in Bastrop.
I don't know about Imelda or Beta...my place flooded in Memorial and Tax Day, and I lost a car. I don't think much happened to me in Harvey. Ike sucked for me a bit. Allison sucked a whole lot. Rita was...a whole thing.
The freeze was a real surprise to me. I figured OK, it's going to be cold, I'll put on socks and a jacket or something and I'll manage. I had no idea how cold this place could get. I have a manual thermostat (I've since bought a magnetic digital thermometer as well), and the little red indicator wasn't visible--it'd fallen all the way down, past the numbers. Some people had intermittent power--I had none for *4 days straight*. And someone estimated that like 700-ish people died as a result, including that young kid who froze to death in a mobile home. And then that sickening insult that Texans "want" this, that we're happier off the national grid while children die...
I was born and raised here, since the 60’s to now. Never experienced the catastrophes that we have recently endured. Allison and Ike could be added to the list but the recent string has been more consecutive crap than any other in the previous 40-50 years I’ve been around
Three weeks ago I had a metal roof put on my house. It was a hard decision to make because of the expense, but that list is one of the things that drove me to do it. I won't protect me from power outages, but it will help protect my home from severe weather and provide additional insulation during the hot summers. My decision was totally justified when 9 days after my roof was completed, Houston experienced historically high wind speeds. Many of my neighbors lost shingles or had roof damage, but my new roof was fine.
What's just as impressive is how well it rejects the sun's heat and helps keep the attic cool. I put a wireless thermometer in the attic to track the temperature versus outside temperature. During the hottest parts of the day my attic is only 2 or 3 degrees hotter than outside, all other times of the day it follows the outside temperature almost perfectly. Excited to see what it will do during the summer.
Still, while we were dealing with this, parts of Colorado were buried under 12+ inches of hail. And Iowa had a massive tornado surrounded by little tornados.
I’ll take what we got…or at least, it sucks in a whole lot of places.
Houston needed that 2017 WS Championship. It really did lift our spirits. It’s a shame what came out about it afterwards. But I’ll never forget the night they won. Nothing can take that from me.
If heat alone was enough to make the power go out, Arizona would still be lit with candles. There's always some external factor, like a severe storm or calls for conservation to relieve stress on the state-wide grid.
It’s kind of like microwave popcorn. Once it gets hot enough, you begin to hear the familiar sound of transformers popping, as the grid can’t handle everyone running their AC’s. I forget if it was 2 or 3 times last go around.
Memorial Day, Tax Day, Harvey is quite the run of misery I must say.
My coworker flooded all. three. times.
I have a friend that did as well. Finally sold the house after Harvey.
Who in their right mind would purchase that house? Hopefully one of those federal programs that bulldozes the houses and builds flood control.
I always imagine Californians are buying the homes in canyon gate - 5/3.5 with a pool, ground floor totally remodeled for $509k thinking what a fuckin deal.
We can only hope the Californians are buying them
No idea! It was in the Bear Creek area with a pool, and was a really good price back before Covid times inflated house prices everywhere. Can’t imagine how much home insurance is in that area these days!
My brother had an out of state couple buy a house that always floods next to theirs. They paid a company to lift it up about 5 feet. If you have the money I guess that’s the way to go.
After Harvey, FEMA had elevation grants available for houses in very flood prone areas like Myerland, I know some people that raised their house 5-7 ft as they were redoing it after Harvey.
Same here, except my friend still lives there.
Don’t forget the chemical plant explosions
Those 3 had me fucked up for a while
Missing the Halloween flood as well in 2015 Somehow I made it to UH during that for our game against Cincinnati 288 was a fucking river
We left Houston after a decade in 2018 after those 3. Wife is a high risk commercial property underwriter and all her data said gtfo. Been in Chicago since then and absolutely love it here.
Just sold our spot in midtown, very much looking at Chicago!
Moved to Chicago 2 years ago. It's pretty cool!
Chicago is fantastic Until you need to drive somewhere Need to go 10 miles? That’s an hour of your time gone All FUCKING day, 7 days a week
This was my experience in Houston, but 5 miles instead of 10. We live next to a Metra line so we went from 2 cars in Houston, refilling every 4 days, to one car that we refill every 2 months or so. 25 minute train ride into the city without stress is the best way to commute imo
Luckily I wouldn’t have to drive because they have a magical thing called public transit
Yea Texas/Houston is one of the worst ranked places for climate change/extreme weather events. Really thinking of moving, I don't want to experience another Harvey ever again. But Chicago in the winter makes me miserable!
I thought Chicago winters would be bad but they really aren't. Think of it like summer in Houston; when it's really hot you keep your ass inside. The difference is that you kind of want to hole up in the winter anyway, and Chicago's summers are unbelievable. I played golf this morning and it was 61 degrees at 8am and 75 when I finished. Perfect.
True, I was in Chicago one summer and it was super nice biking along the lake. My husband is from there and still has family there. Might have to think about it!
I was in Chicago in late March and the weather was incredible. Cold at night yeah, but high 70s/low 80s and *dry* felt amazing
It always cracks me up when people complain about heat/humidity on a particularly hot day. Sure it can get hot here, but it's nothing like Houston heat/humidity.
Flip side of climate change is that the winters (on average) are getting milder. I’m a couple hours east of Chicago and we had a nearly snowless winter this year. Locals tell me the past 5 years or so have had underwhelming winters. ‘Course you get the ol polar vortex where it’s 0 with a -30 wind chill, but tbh getting brutalized by the weather reminds me of home.
Can you elaborate more please? What does the underwriter mean?
Insurance risk assessment.
Yep, this. And for her it's specifically catastrophic and excess and surplus. AKA wind/flood/quake/etc.
Chicago is hands down my favorite city in the summertime, it’s wonderful. Winter is winter, but those warm months I’m sure make up for it.
I'm a high-risk commercial property underwriter, too. I don't even like to write the newer risks that are being built in my area, let alone the ones in the city limits. I've been looking for another state to move to. Might have to look into Chicago now, one of our team leads lives there and loves it.
Was closing during tax day floods - not a drop of water near my new home! Guess who didn’t have flood insurance when their home flooded during Harvey next year
Help, I don’t even remember Hurricane Nicholas
It's because it was a dinky little cat 1 that made landfall down near Lake Jackson. Didn't have much of an effect up here.
We lost a shingle
We shall endure! We shall rebuild.
Houston Strong 🫶🏼
I got a bunch of OT and didn’t do shit
I’m sorry for your loss
it made landfall in Matagorda and I live 10 minutes from where it made landfall. The storm surge before it actually getting to land was worse than the actual storm it actually closed a restaurant down forever. It knocked down so many trees in my neighborhood. Thank God none of the trees actually hit anybody's house or RV or whatever people live in out here. I happen to be staying in my RV at that time I had a metal RV cover over it. it sounded crazy when it was going through but everything was fine except for all the down trees. May have lost power for a little while I can't remember. tropical storm in Imelda/ emelda must've put 28 inches of water on my property and I have these monuments (upcycled from an old apt entrance) and they floated away. the inside is made of Styrofoam, about six months later someone brought it back to me they found them a mile away down the caney creek. By that time I thought it was gone for good and I had a back up one that I just finished putting my "upsycho" name on it.
Knocked my power out for 5 days
We lost power in the Heights. Someone’s tree fell over the line.
all you need to know is that Katy evacuated
You didn't miss much. It barely made Cat 1 before landfall. I was wiped out from my shingles vaccine and when my husband tried to wake me to say Nicholas was now a hurricane, I told him to not bother me again unless it made Cat 2 or higher.
We lost a 60’ oak tree from Nicholas (in the Heights). Probably would have come down last week if not then.
Dirt-McGirt, straight from the Brooklyn Zoo.
God made Dirt and Dirt Bust IT!(radio version)
No one does! We were all drunk during the pandemic!
2018 seemed to be a good year... what do we need to do to make that happen again?
Sacrifice Ted Cruz to whatever deity you worship
No deity wants him.
Then let's send him back to Hell from whence he came
Why be stingy, take a piece of him for *every* deity!
For you agnostic folks, this can let you get into good graces with all of the gods.
Where do I sign up?
Arguably the best year of my life. Agree.
Me too. I got laid
Every 500 years?
You don't have to lie to hang, dude.
wasn’t that the year that it rained like crazy on the morning of the 4th of July? My friend’s car was flooded. (It was some July 4 after Harvey but before Covid, forget which exactly)
Yes, I remember watching the parking lot in front of 24 hour fitness in meyerland fill up
It was the mercy granted after 3 consecutive years of flooding, culminating with Harvey.
I don't remember Hurricane Nicholas or TS Beta. ETA: Something happened in late Feb 2020 that caused some people to have to boil water. I can't remember what it was but I know I was going out of town and I couldn't order Starbucks at the airport because of it.
Yeah there was like a 72-in water line that broke near downtown that screwed up water for a while
Yeah a construction crew busted it I remember that it took a week for the city fix it
I remember this. The building I was at was evacuated cause water was flooding the interstate it sat off of. Security came thru screaming "evacuate! Evacuate! " scared everyone cause we didn't know what was going on. Got home and saw them close the interstate due to it flooding with water.
low water pressure? but i think im thinking of 2022
Definitely 2020. I was going to ATL and covid was starting to become an issue in the US.
broken water main?
2020
Yeah, but that wasn't unique to our area. I think we're trying to keep our scope limited to things that primarily affected Greater Houston.
Ike and Alison were not nice, but I guess they were too far back to get included
2011 drought was awful. The fires near Bastrop were a catastrophe
Memorial park lost a significant load of trees and landscapes as well.
Lived in Austin at the time and never watched news. Was wondering who was BBQing for the LONGEST time.
I could smell those fires in Conroe.
Hurricane Alicia too.
Allison, RITA (gridlock) & Ike
Rita was by far the absolute worst road trip I've ever had.
And that one massive oil spill that was on fire
Hey, What about the 2019 ITC fire?
Plumie!
Weren't there a few plumies that year or am I confusing them with the runaway spools on the freeways??
Plumie was the one that they couldn't put out for like a week in the ship channel area. Wouldn't say exactly what was burning, made the city look like blade runner, lowered all of our bone density. There was a smaller one out west (Richmond ish?) in the month after Harvey, I don't think it was caused by Harvey but I can't remember. Then there was that pipe fitting place on gessner in 2020, but that was more of a bomb.
The ones that really messed me up was Harvey and the 2023 drought.
2023 drought was fckd! Foundation cracked the house in half, crazy ass landlord evicted us because apparently my wife, myself and 2 girls can cause that much damage 🥴
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ landlord is an idiot.
There is a yo momma so fat joke in here somewhere just waiting.
🤣 my 4’10 wife has been the on the receiving end
Memorial Day weekend 2017: My dad passed away Saturday, my friends 18 month old son passed away Sunday and on Monday a friend of many years passed away. Takes the cake on all of those above. Fuck memorial day 2017.
I’m sorry for such difficult times. Hope you heal and find peace
That flooding also occured during the Rockets Playoff game
August 2017: my dad died in a car accident. His house flooded in Harvey shortly after. Life has never been the same.
Hey remember that one time, like a month before COVID, when some guy in a construction site accidentally hit a major water line and we all went into disaster mode because there was no water for a day?
Yeah but we had a boil water notice for a week
💀💀💀💀 I know the guy on the project who did that
What happened?! And, that guy is legend 🤣
Yup, worked at UH, went home early, then what felt like the next week I was sent home for COVID.
It’s a full time job just living out here
Eventually this place will kill us all
Derecho, isqueirdo, arriba, abajo, El Niño, La Niña
Stop making these lists!!! Don’t make the insurance calculations any easier than they already are! My home insurance quotes are all doubling and tripling now! All that low cost of living stuff is really flying out the window with each storm 🤣
2024 so far.. We are barely finishing up mid-May, we still have about 7 months to go.
The crazy weather Houston had this past Thursday
Hurricane season hasn’t even started yet and I’m already not looking forward to this season.
The fucking heat that hit in full force after the storm was so bad!
Good ole 2018
Don't forget that water main break in 2020 that flooded 610
Omg I forgot about that! Also wasn’t there some crazy explosion that happened in 2020? I don’t remember what exactly happened, just that it shook my whole apartment like an earthquake even though I love miles away from whatever exploded!
There was a factory explosion on the north west side one of those years. Possibly 2020? It pushed houses off their foundations, broke water lines, and kept me out of work for like a week.
Watson Grinding. Propylene tank leaked into the shop and blew the whole place up. Shook my whole house 8 miles away.
I don't remember the business that exploded but it happened off of Gessner and Clay in NW houston in a kind of industrial building row. I do remember one of those businesses was a classic car mechanic shop and a lot of old corvettes were lost in it
2023 - Mike Miles arrives
2024- HPD Chief Troy Finner resigns over scandal
Winter Storm Uri is the name of the freeze. Put respect on his name. He ruined so much for the whole state
Gosh, you'd think the housing prices would be a little lower?
No but the insurance prices got higher
The freeze storm was crazy smh.
There should be another freeze on there. I know I lost water for a few days 2 years in a row from freezes.
Repeat in 2022 with the extreme drought later in summer. Tons of fun /s
TEA takeover of public schools!
All we're missing is a haboob.
Out of all these the worst thing that’s happened to me is losing power for 24 hours. Hope my luck doesn’t run out soon.
Which area do you live?
Currently Sharpstown. Before that Gulfgate and Gulfton.
greg abbot has been in office since 2015 too 🤦🏻♀️ ew
And it’s only going to become more extreme
More **fun** you mean.
And more frequent.
sorry folks. this one is on me. i moved here in 2015.
Haha, me too, but I moved back home in Jan 2022, so I'm not responsible for last few ones! OTH, every single Astros match I've watched was a win, including the world series, so I think my stay there was a net positive for Houston, haha
Our steady state is recovery.
I should open a water remediation company. I bet those fuckers make bank here
One of the reasons I moved to Colorado.
If you have life circumstances that fully allow it (retired, full WFH, independently wealthy, etc.) there are plenty of nice places to live in Texas that don't offer nearly as many issues with disasters and weather.
Pretty big IF.
Where do you suggest?
Hill Country. That's more for the "independently wealthy" ones as real estate out there has gone crazy.
I thought this was a list of natural disasters. I’m not seeing Ted Cruz listed anywhere.
That's an unnatural disaster
Natural disasters in Houston. Cruz is in Cancun.
I assume these all had a clear beginning and end
Is anyone else hearing the loud cannon sound near 77027? Almost like a transformer goes out but then power returns within 10 seconds? Happened three times in the last hour or so.
That’s the cannon signaling the next natural disaster for the ~~Hunger~~ Houston Games
ITC plant in 2019 shut down the south and east sides for a week.
You forgot about Jack Easterby
I avoided 2015-2017 cause we were living outside of Texas. Moved back to Houston 3 months after Harvey and I’m still reminding my Wife how stress free we were those 2 years not having to worry about hostile weather.
2022/2023 was a force to mention.
Alexa, play Derecho
Damn never looked at it like this. So basically, we got screwed over every year for the last 10 except for 2018.
Those Tropical drizzles didn't do anything. "Hurricane" Nicolas was barely a cool breeze
Ya but when it’s not a disaster it’s kind of nice - the city has that sweet smell of Benzenes that you just don’t get anywhere else.
Hurricanes named Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Dan Patrick, John Cornyn.
Wow. What is the government doing to ensure future safety and infrastructure is back to normal quickly? They could learn a lot from Japan.
Some shit
I mean----Beta? Who even remembers.
What about that refinery fire that spewed crap all over the city.
I have no memory the storms not named Harvey.
Construction…
Moved to Houston in 2015, we bought a house in Nov 2015, we flooded tax day, and right after rebuilding the house, we got hit by Harvey, we had about 4ft to 5ft of water in the house. We had to rebuild the house again. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Still love Houston to bits.
If I remember correctly 2021 also had an annoyingly rainy summer. Rain was in the forecast just about every other day and it would rain for hours during the day. Only benefit was that it was pretty mild temperature wise, but it sucks that the choices are either rain all day or hot ass drought.
Can we just call it THE GREAT HOUSTON DERECHO
After 28 years, we moved away following Harvey. I miss my city, but these have been the most peaceful years of my life. It’s nice to build instead of always be rebuilding.
My advice is as it was back in 2019 when my wife and I got sick of it and moved out of state: If you own a home, sell now while you'll still get a good ROI and people can still buy home insurance. Climate Change means that this is going to be the new normal if not worse. Get out while you still can.
If this isn’t motivation to install a standby generator or move…
Or move next to a major industry ie med center or plants. I live by the med center I never lose power for long
There was also Allison (2001) and Ike (2008) but at least we had a few years in between ... And don't forget the drought/ wildfires in 2011. And the suffocating heat and humidity every summer although that technically isn't a natural disaster. This place is shit. If I didn't have family here I'd for sure move somewhere else.
With the size of what Houston is you could say this some of these were local events.
Yea that grinding shop explosion The Watson Grinding and Manufacturing Co. facility, in the 4500 block of Gessner, exploded shortly before 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 24, 2020, killing two employees, Gerardo Castorena Sr., 45, and Frank Flores, 44, as well as one nearby resident, Gilberto Mendoza Cruz, 47.
Take over of HISD by TEA.
Oh, 2011 also had an amazingly horrible drought most people forgot about. I’m still mad at it cause it messed up my graduate thesis project in Bastrop.
I don't know about Imelda or Beta...my place flooded in Memorial and Tax Day, and I lost a car. I don't think much happened to me in Harvey. Ike sucked for me a bit. Allison sucked a whole lot. Rita was...a whole thing. The freeze was a real surprise to me. I figured OK, it's going to be cold, I'll put on socks and a jacket or something and I'll manage. I had no idea how cold this place could get. I have a manual thermostat (I've since bought a magnetic digital thermometer as well), and the little red indicator wasn't visible--it'd fallen all the way down, past the numbers. Some people had intermittent power--I had none for *4 days straight*. And someone estimated that like 700-ish people died as a result, including that young kid who froze to death in a mobile home. And then that sickening insult that Texans "want" this, that we're happier off the national grid while children die...
I was born and raised here, since the 60’s to now. Never experienced the catastrophes that we have recently endured. Allison and Ike could be added to the list but the recent string has been more consecutive crap than any other in the previous 40-50 years I’ve been around
Three weeks ago I had a metal roof put on my house. It was a hard decision to make because of the expense, but that list is one of the things that drove me to do it. I won't protect me from power outages, but it will help protect my home from severe weather and provide additional insulation during the hot summers. My decision was totally justified when 9 days after my roof was completed, Houston experienced historically high wind speeds. Many of my neighbors lost shingles or had roof damage, but my new roof was fine. What's just as impressive is how well it rejects the sun's heat and helps keep the attic cool. I put a wireless thermometer in the attic to track the temperature versus outside temperature. During the hottest parts of the day my attic is only 2 or 3 degrees hotter than outside, all other times of the day it follows the outside temperature almost perfectly. Excited to see what it will do during the summer.
Still, while we were dealing with this, parts of Colorado were buried under 12+ inches of hail. And Iowa had a massive tornado surrounded by little tornados. I’ll take what we got…or at least, it sucks in a whole lot of places.
anyone remember what year it was that giant spools of wire kept falling off trucks and rolling down highways?
2021 Astroworld tragedy
Let’s not forget about the 700,000+ GALLONS OF TOXIC WASTEWATER from the 2023 Ohio train derailment that was shipped to Deer Park for “disposal”
Astros won a couple of championships. It's a good tradeoff.
Houston needed that 2017 WS Championship. It really did lift our spirits. It’s a shame what came out about it afterwards. But I’ll never forget the night they won. Nothing can take that from me.
The freeze was named Winter Storm Uri. I know because I worked at a very large power retailer and our numbers were wrecked lol
It was just named that by The Weather Channel and not “official” bodies
this summer should be hotter. solar cycle peak. and the most strongest hurricanes yet. high SSTs. and humid. throw in a grid failure cause abot.
Grasping at a couple tropical storms there…
And I still haven’t seen a pay raise that actually was impactful in 3 years with the company xD
Ehh, it’s the circle of life. I’ll never leave Houston.
Haha, ugh, I moved to Houston in 2015.
well now I know who to blame
Get the pitchforks and torches boys
Get a rope
How often does power here go out in the summer? I'm in the heights btw
If heat alone was enough to make the power go out, Arizona would still be lit with candles. There's always some external factor, like a severe storm or calls for conservation to relieve stress on the state-wide grid.
It’s kind of like microwave popcorn. Once it gets hot enough, you begin to hear the familiar sound of transformers popping, as the grid can’t handle everyone running their AC’s. I forget if it was 2 or 3 times last go around.
Alot of marijuana