Hi Evan and Riza,
To
answer your first question, I think I like summer the best. I love
going camping and swimming. It is very hot
and humid here in Houston and a
lot of the people that live here don't like
it much, but I do. I know it
gets very hot in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area
too, but the humidity here makes
it feel so much hotter than it really is.
When we had the flood here it was very scary. We were very lucky and our
house did not flood, but we have a lot of
friends that were flooded out of
their homes. A good friend of ours had over
13 inches of water in their
house. It was very scary for them. They had
their elderly mother living with
them and they all had to move up into the
attic to get out of the water. It
was dangerous because the electric plugs
were under water and they were
afraid of being shocked. It ruined
EVERYTHING in their home. They had to
totally redo the whole house. They stayed
with us for a while and also had
to stay in motels and with other friends
while their house was being redone.
It
is very had to describe to you in writing, we were very afraid. When I
looked out my window across the street to my
neighbors house I couldn't even
see their car sitting in the driveway. It
was covered with water. When the
rain finally stopped and we went outside
into our street, the water was over
my waist and I am 5'7" tall.
Like I told you before, we were very lucky. There were so many people
here
that lost everything. It was so amazing
sitting here watching the news and
seeing semi
trucks floating down the road. You couldn't even tell that they
were on a road, everything just looked like
a big lake. All the big
hospitals in downtown Houston had to be
closed and all the patients taken to
other hospitals.
It
was very amazing also how all the people here pulled together to help
eachother. It was a very scary time for
everyone here.
I
hope these answers will help you with your project, and if there is
anything else I can help you with please
feel free to e-mail me again.
Thanks,
Tammy