It's all about the rain. We had only about 1.5 inches of rain from 10a Sat to 11p Sat. Then we had about 11 inches of rain in the next 3 hours as we were lined up with a northward moving band that moved very slowly to the east. A lot of the bayous in this part of the county are out of their banks and at or just above TS Allison levels. The Clear Lake outlet and the level of Galveston Bay are still fine, so drainage should occur once the band moves east (which basically has at my house; rain is finally intermittent).
Streets here are used to channel rain water and the drain systems are usually sized for about 2-3 inches/hr. The culvert is in front of my house, and water rose as high as about 3 inches above the curb; about halfway between the street and the beginning of the sidewalk. It has already dropped to well below the curb now that the rate of rainfall has dropped to intermittent.
The latest NWS emergency notification stated that water rescues are underway in this part of the county and down toward Galveston and Freeport.
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