From 10PM Thursday night to 4 PM Friday 21" of rain fell on the Harlingen area. Below are some photos of the campground. The water level had dropped by about 3" when I took these photos.
All the flooding was on the north side of the clubhouse. I don't think anyone actually had water inside their units, but it was close. We are on the south side of the clubhouse. There was minor ponded water in low spots, but no flooding.
While it was raining we had a 20 mph wind, with 30 mph gusts. We had a few drips inside where water blew under one of our slide roof seals, but nothing significant. Our biggest problem was our refrigerator quit working. A hard driving rain can trip a sensor on the back of the refrigerator. It happened to us once before. The relay that trips is totally enclosed in plastic. You can reset it with a strong magnet. The magnets we had were not strong enough to reset it so I thought I would go to the hardware store and buy a stronger one. Before I got to the first significant intersection the street was covered with water. I cut through a church parking lot to get over to the frontage road that runs along the interstate. It is one way going west. The photo is looking east. Fortunately I wanted to go west (turn left) on it. It looked like 5 of the cars in this photo had stalled out. I got back to the campground without have to drive through any significant water. I asked several of the guys at the campground and one of them had a magnet that was strong enough to reset the relay.
We had planned on heading north Thursday or Friday but when we saw the weather reports we decided to wait until Saturday. Because of all the flooding we postponed our leaving until Monday.
God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours. He has blessed me.
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