After two weeks of CR 190 being under water I was excited about driving down the road to FM 3090 again. That happened Wednesday. Friday at noon, I took that route for a ride to Houston. Turns out that was my last ride on that stretch for a while. During my hour visit in Houston a really bad line of thunderstorms passed the ranch, dumping another 4 1/2″ of rain. By the time I was heading back on FM 3090, there were several spots where the road had about 6″ of gushing water from small creeks flooding the road. I made it all the way to the Gibbons Creek Bridge on CR 190, but at that point there was a solid lake of water over the road again. Had to backtrack to Carlos and managed to make it back to the ranch from Highway 30. This morning, even that route was closed due to flooding and CR 190 is under 4′ of water yet again.
When I arrived back at the ranch, the rain had ended but the wind was still howling. There were reports of hurricane force winds in the area during the height of the storm. We had two large trees toppled near the ranch house, but fortunately the wind pushed them away from the house. The lake was about 18″ over the discharge flume and was flowing out the emergency spillway. Some of our torch lights along the edge of the lake were nearly submerged. My bass tracker boat had been blown off the deck at the south end of the lake and was about 50′ away in the pasture behind the dam. Lots of limbs down all over the property, but nowhere near the damage reported in Waller and Harris county.
No significant rainfall is forecasted for the next couple of weeks, but we probably have another 5 days or so before the water recedes from CR 190. Bet the mosquitos are really happy.