NO WORDS

How do you come up with a word to describe something like what is happening?

When they say 30" of rain, you kind of think in the back of your mind "yeah, sure, there can't be that much rain" and maybe even if there was that much you still think "it wouldn't all come at once".

Last night, or I guess earlier this morning, we finally got to bed about 2am. Please know before you continue reading, we are safe, the pets are safe, even the cars are safe. The farm, well, we're hoping it's safe. Haven't been able to reach 2nd Family this morning but the radar shows there have been some breaks out there unlike Houston where it has just rained for almost 12 hours nonstop.  

Of course, as I type this now this morning, there is another tornado warning, once again including the area where the farm is.  

We spent hours watching the local news where we have had, as one news anchor said, "an apocalyptic amount of rain". The most common word being tossed around is "catastrophic" or "devastating".  

We're up now at 8am, watching the news as dawn is breaking on perhaps what will become the greatest disaster ever to hit our city.

I went to our city website where they have an interactive flood monitoring system and I screen captured this showing the official rainfall amounts across Harris County. Click to enlarge. Have you ever seen rain like this?  This is since LAST NIGHT.

Quite honestly, I've lived here 40 years, 2nd Man was born here, and other than a tropical storm named Allison way back in 2001 that also dumped an epic amount of rain (but nothing like this now), this is unlike anything we have EVER seen. They are rescuing people from rooftops, evacuating entire apartment complexes where water is going up to the second floor, cars underwater all over the city, roads flooded everywhere, the 911 system is so overloaded that people are asking for rescue via Twitter and Facebook.  Even one of our international airports has had to shut down due to flooded runways.  

Truly, we have never seen anything like this.

And it's going to keep raining most of the day today.  

And possibly for days more.

No words...