That's so sweet of you to ask, Bethie. (I still don't see where that Crabby nickname came from. )

After one particular night of heavy rain during this stuff, our street was flooded, and my grandparents' house came about two inches from being flooded. Fortunately, whatever else came through managed to miss us.

Tropical Storm Allison of 2001 flooded our home, along with everyone else's we knew, but it was the first time for this house. My brother and I helped the best we could, but my parents had to do a lot of work on their own to rebuild. They're now absolutely terrified of flooding again, which I can't blame them for, so we were on alert throughout this. We had extra tables in the house in case we had to start stacking our belongings.

Anyway, we were very thankful that it didn't hit us like it could've.