Our old neighborhood after the flood damage 2017/Carlos
Pueblo
Last
Saturday morning after tennis, I made a bank deposit on a drive in box of
a bank nearby
our old neighborhood. I noticed the bank drive in was closed;
however, I
made the deposit by forcing a drawer open and stick the envelop
into it and
closed up manually. I was not that easy after that due to that anyone
could open
the drawer and got the envelop; yet, checks were endorsed with
account
numbers and the amounts of checks were small. I still called the bank
on Monday
after the weekend to check if the bank were able to receive it.
The clerk
told me that the drive in were closed after the famous flood in August,
2017 and the
bank no longer be able to access to it and advised me to contact
with the
landlord. I went ahead to the old bank to get the envelope myself with
the same
method. The envelope was still sitting there just dam after a raining
weekend.
I enter
Bohemia St toward the eastern part of the subdivision that vacant houses
and empty
lots are shown on every street. Bohemia St passes the Sam Houston
Parkway
which divides the subdivision into two villages. The Pass was quite famous
worldwide
due to a release of photos with rapid water pulling down like the water
fall into
the open under freeway filled with the flood water. The Army Engineers
released the
reservoir water to the Buffalo Bayou in order to save the Dam; therefore,
flooded both
sides of the creek. Houses were under several feet of water and ruined.
Newly constructed
mansions have been no choice but cleaning up and put back to
use;
however, the 1956 era old houses could be different managed by owners; first
to spend
huge funds to clean up; to tore down the houses to avoid additional real
estate tax
on improvement; or let them be vacant for future opportunity to sell them
on a booming
market. It was a cloudy rainy day, everything looks miserably.
Judy’s house
on the corner of Bohemia and Beltway 8 is gone and Joe’s house is stand
because he
put up money to remodel the house when he moves in. Across the street,
Logan’s parents’
house is gone and so is Dorothy’s. Both of them intended to stay and
refuse to
sell their houses to builders. On our Traviata St, the south side are all new
buildings now
and the north side 4 houses are still no changed. The only huge oak tree
on our front
yard is dying, yet the new owners keep two Texas plum trees which I have
planted them
long time before. Various kinds of birds are flying by during the spring to
get the
warms inside the ripe fruits. Our cats sit in front of the window by me to play
with
squirrels outside the window. It bring back many good memory of our 33 years.
We feel very
fortunate to sell the old house 6 years before and escape the flood damage.
My life is
much less stressful and relaxing nowadays and I only feel sympathy for our old
neighbors
for their catastrophe losses.
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