"HoustonRunner" (houstonrunner)
07/26/2020 at 12:48 • Filed to: None
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"HoustonRunner" (houstonrunner)
07/26/2020 at 12:48 • Filed to: None | 3
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Yes, even in my mid-forties I get birthday presents from my parents. And good ones at that.
This is the 46" by 18" deep version. More than enough for the tools I have now (which means I need more tools!). Still need to do some rearranging in the garage.
Also need to figure out how to raise it when it eventually floods on my street again. I’m thinking rope and pulley system.
Urambo Tauro
> HoustonRunner
07/26/2020 at 13:32 |
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How bad does the flooding get?
My garage used to flood from time to time, so I put all of my metal cabinets and shelving units up on bricks or cinder blocks. I didn’t bother elevating my toolboxes since they were on plastic casters and the standing water (never more than 1/4" deep ) wasn’t coming into contact with the metal . I re-graded the ground along the walls to stop the flooding, but the floor still sweats sometimes, so the only metal items I have touching the floor are a jack & jackstands.
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HoustonRunner
> Urambo Tauro
07/26/2020 at 14:00 |
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I live on Houston close to Bray’s Bayou. My house is almost 6 feet off the ground and water got within 8-10 inches during Harvey. We got about 2 fe et of water on the street each of the two prior years as well.
The flood control district has done some really good (and overdue) improvements, so I think we would have had water over the curb at least once in the last year without the drainage and bayou widening.
The net is- probably once every other year I will get water in my garage. So I want to plan in advance. But it doesn't have to be easy to use since it will be infrequent. I may just build some stands from scrap wood and use my floor jack.
facw
> HoustonRunner
07/26/2020 at 14:48 |
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The widening project seemed really good, both from a drainage standpoint and from a standpoint of making the Bayou more parklike and less of an open sewer. Sadly Harvey still got my apartment complex pretty good, To some extent I wonder if the fact they had widened the bayou but hadn’t yet installed wider bridges might have created bottlenecks that encouraged flooding where I was, but it was a ton of water, probably would have been a problem either way.
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facw
> HoustonRunner
07/26/2020 at 15:40 |
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I keep reading this title as Burly Earth Day present. Make of that what you will...
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HoustonRunner
> facw
07/26/2020 at 15:50 |
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Sorry to hear that, were you at the ones that are now a field just inside the loop along the bayou?
I knew the bridges would be last to get done just due to the planning needed. They are getting them done now, but years late.
If you are in the area you will see me out running along the bayou every other day.
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facw
> HoustonRunner
07/26/2020 at 15:57 |
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I was just west of Kirby on the north side of Brays. Apartments are still there, I was on the second floor but the whole 1st floor was flooded, and was quickly deemed uninhabitable (at least my apartment got the walls knocked out quickly, the one down the street just left them to rot until the city threatened to shut down their whole complex) :
My car didn’t make it though. And a few months later I had really bad mold issues in my bathroom, which may have been related, and was the proximate cause for me leaving.
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HoustonRunner
> facw
07/26/2020 at 16:03 |
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I know the area. Between Memorial Day, Tax Day, and Harvey we lost 5 cars. Interestingly enough my insurance didn’t really go up, it was already high based on where I live.
Before Hannah took a turn this week I was planning what to do with the cars this weekend.
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facw
> HoustonRunner
07/26/2020 at 16:12 |
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Yeah, the street out front had flooded during those other storms, but the back, which was a bit higher had stayed dry, so I thought I was ok. In retrospect I should have parked in a garage somewhere, or taken a close look at the topomaps to see where in W est U the street parking was highest.
Geico was at least easy to deal with but it was still a sad day:
(Note the trucks and claw/ crane thing hauling off the massive amount of ruined furniture from the first floor apartments)
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HoustonRunner
> facw
07/26/2020 at 16:40 |
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We are all too familiar with the claw in Meyerland.