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Posted by y2kguru aka John Huestis on June 10, 2001 at 20:54:44:

In Reply to: OT 20" of rain in Houston, TX (long) posted by Richard V on June 10, 2001 at 20:13:05:


I went out Friday night to a movie and dinner. It looked like it might rain so at the last minute I decided to take my company car. It raining hard during the movie and at dinner. I dropped off my date early and headed home. I needed to get up early because FredR was going to help me install adjustable Koni shocks on the Z. About 4 miles from my house the traffic on the freeway stopped. I figured it must have been a wreck. I turned off the CD player and turned on the news. The freeway was flooded! I couldn't move forward. Time is now 11:30PM. About 1:30AM I went for a walk in the rain (rain was falling about 1 or 2 inches an hour) the freeway was 15 feet underwater. (Sometimes the rain was falling at 4" a hour). My car was about 30 cars away from being underwater. I watched as the water rose up and covered up half of a '92 Honda Prelude in about 10 minutes (no one was inside). I went back to my car to wait. I slept for about 1 hour. But then got worried that the water that was quickly filling up the ditch would reach my car. Time: 3:30AM Weatherman says we are in for more rain, GREAT! My house is about 3 miles away, is it safe? is my Z3 safe? I am thinking that it must be flooded. To make a long story short I decide that maybe we can reverse back up the freeway and get out. I start getting people in the rear of the group to reverse back up the ramp, a few do it. Starts raining hard again and I find a few police officers that were heading to work. I suggest to them my idea, it takes them until 6:30AM to start the reverse action. I helped the cars to navigate between the 18 wheelers. All the 4 wheelers are out now. I jump in my car, it is now 7:30AM. I had to find another way home. It took me 1 hour to get home. Good news no water inside my house and no damage to my Z! The people that live across from me weren't so lucky. They had 4 feet inside. Check the pictures out.




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