Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Help to clean Harvey mess on tennis courts/Carlos Pueblo


Help to clean Harvey mess on tennis courts/Carlos Pueblo
Our Captain called for cleaning the tennis courts after Hurricane Harvey flooded
It last August. There was no physical damage except the remaining mud on the
edge of court number one along with the fence. It is very reasonable according
to the terrain that the flood water receded back to the oxbow and left some solid
behind. I am anxious to be back on one of my two exercises after nine months.
Three lawyer teammates came in with proper tools to do the job, power wash
machine, brushes, water hoses, wheel barrow, flat shovels, and dust pen, etc.
If you like to get the work done, you must have proper tools that what Confucius
said.

It was between 2 or 3 inches thick of mud remaining of a foot wide of the entire
side of the fence. It rained a night before; therefore, the wet mud would not go
through the iron fence holes to the woods. I helped to move the shoveled dirt
outside. Will, Walker, and Michael were engaging shoveling and very good at it.
As I understand it that they are neighbors on the same flooded street and still
not back to their houses yet, of course, Will was lucky that he just torn down the
old house for a new one. Now he builds the slab up to the level of Harvey, 6 feet
high.

After the mud cleaning, they started the power washing and brush cleaning
with the wet floor in efficient way. All finished in two hours.

This tennis court and the adjacent swimming pool was built on a delta of an
oxbow, a geological terminology of a subordinate stream of a main creek.
Our old Captain Bill, a Ph.D. in Physics, explained it to me the function of an
oxbow and I understood it immediately. During the hurricane, we received
more than 54 inches rain in 48 hours and the Army Engineers released the
water from the reservoir to Buffalo Bayou, the main creek and then to our
oxbow and raised the water level of the court to the same of the swimming
pool, usually 8 feet above the court.


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