Hurricane Harvey

[davsel]

Fire Ants: The most evil bastards in the insect world

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...oodwaters.html


Brings back memories of these rafts of fire floating down the street when we played in the flood waters.
Even had individual demons snorkeling out to the middle of the lake and stinging you while water skiing.

We would blowtorch the floating rafts with aerosol, or drown them in wasp spray.

[Bailey Guns]

Mmmm....Whataburger.

Hell yeah! Gonna take a lot more than biblical floods to keep me away from Whataburger.

[Bailey Guns]

Grew up in Spring Branch, west side of Houston.

Ha! So did I. Went to Benbrook Elementary, Spring Woods Jr Hi and Northbrook High School. Still remember my first phone number from my early years...HO2-5460.

[USMC88-93]

Have a couple of friends with their houses under water down there. Lived there for 8 years.

[Fentonite]

I grew up in SW Houston, remember playing in the floods of Hurricane Allen. We used to stand on a bedsheet on our skateboards and hold it up like a sail and catch some crazy wind before the storm hit, the play in the flood afterword. My nephew is there now, luckily his house is dry (but he can't get out of the neighborhood), nice little staycation. And now I'm craving Whataburger.

[davsel]

Ha! So did I. Went to Benbrook Elementary, Spring Woods Jr Hi and Northbrook High School. Still remember my first phone number from my early years...HO2-5460.

No way. Shadow Oaks Elementary, Spring Oaks Jr, and Spring Woods High School. Parents still live there and have the same phone number from when I was 4. Talked to them yesterday and the neighborhood is safely above water. They are concerned about the reservoirs going over the spillway now will flow into the same drainage their neighborhood is flowing into and may start to back-up.

[Great-Kazoo]

I'm craving Whataburger.

AND and ice cold long neck

[Bailey Guns]

No way. Shadow Oaks Elementary, Spring Oaks Jr, and Spring Woods High School. Parents still live there and have the same phone number from when I was 4. Talked to them yesterday and the neighborhood is safely above water. They are concerned about the reservoirs going over the spillway now will flow into the same drainage their neighborhood is flowing into and may start to back-up.

Yep...small world.

I remember the floods after rains, then ant swarms clinging to anything that would float...and riding our bikes in the fog from the mosquito truck! Some damn good memories of those days.

[davsel]

Ah yes, the mosquito foggers in the evenings.
Wonder if they still have those, or if they're going to bring them back out soon, as the impending plague of mosquitoes will be epic.

[Zundfolge]

Fire Ants: The most evil bastards in the insect world

Nope nope nope nope nope ... that's it ... time to take off and nuke Houston from orbit. its the only way to be sure.