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<h1 class="entry-title">Riding out Hurricane Harvey by Jody Smith</h1>
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<h2>Riding out Hurricane Harvey</h2>
<p>When you&#8217;ve lived close to the Texas gulf coast all of your life like I have, you learn to deal with the constant threat of hurricanes and tropical storms each summer. With the experience comes the knowledge of how to prepare, how to have a plan in place and, generally, what to expect.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, mother nature doesn&#8217;t always make that easy.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure everyone has been watching tv and observing the devastation that has hit the southeast Texas coast and dealt a huge blow to the greater Houston area. A low-lying area that is home to is home to over 6 million people, Hurricane Harvey has dumped, in some cases, a year&#8217;s worth of water over a two-day span and thousands of people have been flooded out of their homes, been rescued by boats, and left reeling.</p>
<p>First, I&#8217;d just like to say how fortunate that we here have been. I live in League City, which is south of Houston about halfway between downtown and Galveston. Over the storm&#8217;s first day, League City received over 22 inches of rain, which for a while was the most in the entire area of Harvey&#8217;s devastation.</p>
<p>I, my wife and son rode the storm out here at our home. We&#8217;ve been through all this before and were well prepared with water, food, emergency supplies.</p>
<p>Considering the amount of rain we got, we have been very blessed. As of Monday morning, we have not gotten water into our home and the electricity and cable has stayed on for the vast majority of the time.</p>
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<p>Despite our fortune, I can&#8217;t say it wasn&#8217;t scary. At about 1:30 AM on Saturday night we got a brief reprieve and I walked into the street, through waist-high water to check the streets and with neighbors, who were also out and about- and safe. I did have to continually clear the gutters from our house to keep the water flowing and remove some tree branches that had fallen into our yard, but overall we made it through well.</p>
<p>I remember Hurricane Alicia devastating this area in 1983. Because Alicia spawned tornadoes throughout Pasadena, Texas, where I was a very young kid at the time, that storm always registered as the worst storm I&#8217;d gone through. We lost four trees, had roof leaks, gained a shed from somebody&#8217;s yard and were without power for several days.</p>
<p>Over the next couple of decades, numerous tropical storms impacted the Houston area. Staying alert to the weather in the tropics became a part of life each summer and being prepared became a constant status.</p>
<p>In 2001, tropical storm Allison really came out of nowhere and inundated Houston with then-record amounts of rainfall. Because Allison sort of popped out of nowhere and simply set on top of the area, nobody was prepared and the entire region was devastated by floods.</p>
<p>After Hurricane Katrina demolished most of New Orleans, most of the greater Houston area evacuated the city when Hurrican Rita followed. Like millions of others, I evacuated and had the same results. 15-22 hour Odysseys in stifling heat. Trips on traffic-packed streets and highways that would normally take three to four hours. Vehicles overheating and people dying while trying to evacuate.</p>
<p>When Rita moved east and mostly missed the Houston area, most people vowed that they would never go through that ordeal again and would instead choose to ride out future storms.</p>
<p>I became a dad in 2008 and when my son was merely months old, Hurricane Ike barreled towards Galveston. My wife was too young to remember Alicia and was scared. Ike hammered the area with wind and rain. We had holes in the roof and had to make repairs in the humidity. We were also without power for three to four days. I still remember the eerie quiet in neighborhoods. No cars going down roads. No air conditioners running. Everything was so still.</p>
<p>But we made it through ok.</p>
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<p>I knew what my friends on the east coast were going through when Hurricane Sandy impacted that area in 2012. I reached out to many of my friends on twitter that were potentially impacted. The twitter fantasy football community is like one big family and we all look out for each other.</p>
<p>True to form, many of you have shown concern and asked how we&#8217;re doing. And I really appreciate that. I stayed as connected as we could throughout the ordeal. Like most of you, I was glued to the television watching the reports of helicopter rescues, life-threatening flooding and constant reports of still more rain to come.</p>
<p>But seeing local areas that I often traveled on a daily basis was hard to watch. While we were certainly grateful that we were very fortunate to be safe and dry, it hurts to see your city and you friends and neighbors hit so hard. It&#8217;s a helpless feeling.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">These are the main lanes of I-45 southbound at FM-518 in League City. This is where I exit daily (red is 18-wheeler) <a href="https://t.co/NdyiHvNBAq">pic.twitter.com/NdyiHvNBAq</a></p>
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<p>In June, my mother-in-law passed away unexpectedly and it left us another home to take care of. She lived in a very nice home, full of antique furniture and decades worth of mementos and collectibles. We were spending time each weekend boxing things up and trying out best to honor her memory and take care of things.</p>
<p>Sadly, from what we&#8217;re hearing, her house is underwater. Most of League City is impacted by the flooding Clear Creek, the border between Harris County and Galveston County. Barrels are up along FM518 and all throughout the area, making it impossible for us to go check on the house.</p>
<p>But we did find out my mother-in-law&#8217;s neighbor was evacuated for the League City Fire Department via a boat. They posted a picture of their house and my wife&#8217;s heart sank. It confirmed that he mother&#8217;s house had at least a foot of water inside.</p>
<p>Thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people in Texas and Lousiana are undoubtedly going through the same things, and many others are going through much worse. At least five people have died so far and that number is sure to go up as the waters recede.</p>
<p>And they will.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s great to see residents looking out for each other and working together. There has been no response of wide-spread looting and people being taking advantage of. Many people, even from different states have headed this way to help and we couldn&#8217;t be more appreciative.</p>
<p>Helicopters have been buzzing all around for days, making numerous rescues. The National Guard, Coast Guard, local city officials, law enforcements, the fire department, local media and many others have worked tirelessly to come together and have done such an amazing job assisting a grateful community.</p>
<p>For all of you who have reached out, I wanted to thank you for your concern. We are safe, dry and working with our neighbors and family to get through things. We are opening our doors today to family that is much less fortunate than we&#8217;ve been and it feels good to be able to do something to help and that we were prepared enough to be in a position to give back.</p>
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<p>I know most of you follow me for my fantasy football impact and that this past weekend was the big draft weekend. I wanted to apologize for not being better able to assist some of you who might have reached out for questions. I&#8217;m getting caught up here and look forward to being in a position to update rankings and move forward.</p>
<p>Embracing fantasy football helps get your mind of off the negatives at times, and I&#8217;m certainly ready to do that just as soon as I can. Be patient with me.</p>
<p>As for now, I&#8217;m about to jump on my bike and see if I can traverse these waters and get to my mother-in-law&#8217;s house. I know it&#8217;s going to be hard to see what I find, but it&#8217;s a necessary step in the recovery and healing process.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m very proud to be a part of the twitter fantasy football community and appreciate each and every one of you who care about what I have to say about things&#8211; whether it&#8217;s about football or something much deeper.</p>
<p>Thank you all for your thoughts, prayers, and concerns. If you&#8217;d like to help out residents who have been affected, think about donating to Red Cross.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">To everyone in Texas affected by <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harvey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Harvey</a>: stay strong.</p>
<p>Remember to text &quot;HARVEY&quot; to 90999 or call 1-800-RED CROSS to donate. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TexasStrong?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TexasStrong</a> <a href="https://t.co/quPWIpiMZN">pic.twitter.com/quPWIpiMZN</a></p>
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<p>I look forward to getting back to fantasy football just as soon as I can. I hope you&#8217;ll bear with me until I can get there soon.</p>
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