To all those who live in Houston. MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU!

My thoughts and prayers to all, safe and healthy recovery.

I'm still trying to get hold of my godmother's sister, who lives in Spring, so I'm hoping they're okay..

But keeping this bowling related, I'm trying to think of friends/bowlers who are down in TX..

We know that the Barnes, Guerreros, and Mallotts are okay.. everyone involved with TeamUSA and the ITRC are okay (all of them are at least 200 miles away and at worse, the outer ring of the hurricane barely hit those areas), and Rachel Perez is in San Antonio.. Anyone remember if Ozio is down in the Houston area?

BL.

The last I heard Ozio lives in the Beaumont area (Vidor, I think).  --  JohnP

Uhh.. and Beaumont is right in the path of the storm again, along with Port Arthur. Hope the USBC or PBA reach out to him to see if he's okay..

BL.

It is night and day around here...I only had 30 inches at the house (Lake Conroe area) but even after the storm re-entered the Gulf to prepare for its THIRD landfall, it was still in the midst of dumping 40+ inches in the Triangle...

What made things worse was that the storm moved slower than most people walk...and arguably slower than an old person with a walker might have been moving.  Seriously- less than two miles an hour across at least one of the days of the rain event. 

Parts of the Houston area are like there was never even anything in the way of a storm while others are getting new evacuation orders even in the past 24 hours.  And, as noted, Beaumont is still dealing with water issues.

To give you an idea of how crazy it was, there were intersections with upwards of 15-16 feet of water and there were WHITECAPS on I-10 towards Beaumont.  I watched one video of the river overflow pushing those big concrete retaining walls off of the road. 

No water in the house and I kept power and running water through the storms, but did get locked into the house when the lake rose to a record 206.4 feet (dam is 207 and normal full pool is 201...my street takes on water at 202 feet).  It receded enough by Wednesday to get out and go to the store...was in the office on Thursday.