Texas Flood

Nope, its not just a song by the Late Great Stevie Ray Vaughn...its also something I experienced last weekend. My mom was gracious enough to fly me up to Dallas this past weekend for a couple of reasons....One it was the weekend between my two oldest neices birthdays, and her sister and brother-in-law were coming into town. I hadn't been home in while so I jumped at the opportunity. So I went up to Hobby on Friday, hopped on board Southwest (they were early) and I arrived in Dallas about 15 minutes before scheduled. I thought "hey this is great!" So Saturday it starts to rain...and rain....and rain. My Aunt and Uncle eventually arrived, and my sister and the kidos, came over and we preceeded to have a great time. It was fun to see everyone and play with all the girls...what can I say, they love their uncle Ted. Sunday arrives, and guess what...still raining....and raining...and raining. So I hooked up with one my childhood buddies who had just bought a house, so we go over to his place to watch some college hoops, except its raining and now flooding and the main road to his house is blocked off. We finally get to his place by the back roads and the power goes out as soon as we get there. Somewhat quickly the power comes back on and we get a chance to watch some good games....Great House by the way Will.
It gets about that time and we need to start heading towards the airport so he can drop me off. We leave his place at about 4pm, for my 6:30 flight. I figure since the airport is on the other side of town and hour and half is still plenty of time to get me to the airport by 5:30. Well boy was I wrong. We get on I-35 in Dallas and realize....WE CAN'T GET OFF!!!! EVERY SINGLE EXIT is flooded. In fact the streets looked like rivers.

So because the exits are closed, and the water is now flooding onto the highways closing lanes, traffic gets backed up for miles.
Well its about 6pm, and I know now that I am going to miss my flight, so I call my Mom to see if she can tell me anything about my flight...she thankfully reports that my flight has been delayed until 7:30. I think to myself "Whew" I should make it there by then....RIIIIGGGHHHTTTT..
I finally get to Love field a little after 6:30 pm, and guess what, my flight has been indefinetly delayed.
Well an already long story short, my flight ends up getting into Love Field by about 8:30. Of course once we board is when we are informed that we can't fly straight to Houston, we have to go around the massive storm that is currently flooding Dalas. We end up flying out and around Abiline down through Junction and then around to Houston...my plane lands at 10:55pm.

I wanted to post some pictures but was having problems with Blogger, stay tuned for some pics of Texas Flood 2006.