How High's the Water 2

The weather guessers have been warning for days that Harvey was going to result in a major flooding event, and it looks like they were right.

We started out slow here at the Boggy Thicket, but the rains began in earnest yesterday.  The semiofficial rain total at the Weather Bug station in Huffman registered about six inches yesterday and over 3 1/2 since midnight last night.

Our yard is a lake all the way over the street and about halfway up the front yard across the road. We have about an inch of water on our front porch for the first time in 40 years,  but we're still about three inches away from getting water in the house. 

TV is reporting rainfall accumulations in excess of 20 inches in some areas of Harris County, with some areas having rains in excess of five inches per hour overnight.  There are some reports of water into the second floor of homes and apartments.

With that in mind, our septic system has flooded and we can't flush toilets, but otherwise we are OK.  That is unpleasant, but a very minor inconvenience compared to what some are going through.