Posted 6/19/2006 05:50:00 PM by Douglas

Once again grey skies tried to flush Houston into the sea like the turd that it is.

More than 10 inches of rain deluged parts of the Gulf Coast on Monday, forcing the evacuation of a Louisiana nursing home and stranding motorists on roads flooded up to waist-deep in Southeast Texas, where National Guard troops were on standby for more storms.

Rain from a second storm had begun to fall in Houston late Monday afternoon, hours after Mayor Bill White toured his city by helicopter and described seeing "block after block after block flooded."

More than 10 inches of rain was reported in the Houston area by the height of the morning rush hour, said Rusty Cornelius, administrative coordinator for Harris County Emergency Management. Almost 6 inches fell in just 75 minutes near Hobby Airport, the National Weather Service reported.

That's a lot of rain, and 10 inches will put dang near anything underwater. I wish I could find it online, but I can understand why this quote would disappear. It was from Mayor Bill White, when asked what kind of upgrades to the drainage infrastructure have been implemented since this happened in 2001 with tropical storm Allison. He looked in the camera, and with a straight face, claimed that all his hard work paid off, and were it not for his efforts, the flooding today would have been much worse.

Not much consolation for those that woke up today with three feet of water in at the foot of their beds.