It got stuck basically where it landed and the right side of the storm vacuumed up water from the Gulf and dumped it over Houston for about 4 straight days.
So for about a week we stayed inside while it rained, and rained, and rained, and rained. I love rainstorms, and even I got sick of it. It was pretty mind-blowing how much water came out of the sky. Usually rain like this lasts for a couple hours, not days.
I knew if our house was going to have problems, it would be through the back door. We just had a new patio put in (more on that later) and I wasn't sure how it would handle the drainage. It collected some water on the heaviest days, but overall we didn't have to worry.
As the rains kept coming, we watched the news coverage as more and more areas got flooded. People had to be rescued from their homes by boat, highways were covered in water up to the overhead signs. Lots of places near us got flooded, but most of the flooding happened near major drainage routes (creeks, bayous, rivers, reservoirs, etc.). As I found out during the storm, we are on the edge between two drainage basins, so the whole region would have to be underwater before we get flooded. Even so, I went to check out our closest drainage canal during the worst of it, and was comforted to see it was not even close to full.
Overall, I think we got about 37 inches of rain, with some areas getting over 50 inches, which is unheard of. It's roughly the average rainfall we normally get in an entire year. Thousands of homes ended up getting flooded. We've already started mucking out houses and I'm sure we'll be doing it for weeks to come.
School was supposed to start next week, but it was delayed, both for the students/faculty and for the schools, some of which were flooded. We have thankfully suffered only from a little cabin fever. But even the rain couldn't keep Miles and Damon inside forever.
