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What's going on, guys?

Welcome back to another episode of the Oil and Gas This Week podcast. What's going on, Mark? What's going on? This is the first Friday Q&A. We actually got a ton of questions. Now, some of them are a little off base a little bit. That's okay. We'll do our best to answer it. The other thing is we just went through that tropical storm, Jake. And I, even during the last hurricane, Harvey, I don't remember that much

rainfall in one day. We had poor, what's east of us? Beaumont.

Beaumont. I heard Beaumont got up to four feet of rain. That's just insane. We didn't get

that bad, but it flooded here. Yeah, we were leaving. We office downtown now and Colin had taken the parking ride from Katie in.

And I saw someone on Facebook and he said, all metro buses shut down and asked Colin. I was like, hey, is that, is parking ride part of the metro? And he's like, oh, yeah. And I was like, well, I'm leaving. He's like, ah, don't worry about it. Don't worry. It's not going to be that bad. And I was like, okay, well, I'm leaving now.

If you want to go and you want to ride home, I'll take you home.

We hop in the car and it's just like the walking dead meets like day after tomorrow of just rain everywhere. You know, I got a brand new car. I was trying to flood it. And we get to like, I just take all these back roads. We get to like where TC gesture and I10 is. and we're sitting there to light, like waiting to turn right to get onto the on-rap.

We sit there. take all these backroads. We get to like where TC gesture and I10 is and we're sitting there

at a light, like waiting to turn right to get onto the on ramp. We sit there for almost an hour

without moving. And then we look up and we see people walking towards us and somebody was coordinating,

like pulling everybody off the on ramp and getting everybody to back up. And then once we drove by,

we saw that as we were sitting there, I10 filled up. And so all these cars flooded. All these people were stranded in their cars. And so very glad that we didn't get stuck. And so we went over to a buddies, hung out for a few hours and then made the trek to kind of find some other ways. Still went down a whole bunch of different areas where it was absolutely flooded. We couldn't go that way and had to turn around. We saw trucks that were completely underwater. We saw cars that were in the median. It was crazy. It's crazy unless you kind of like see it firsthand. And I'd never, I'd experienced Harvey from Tomball, but I'd never experienced it in town. So it was kind of a different, different experience. But luckily, we finally got home after seven hours. Thank goodness. It is what a lot of people, our audience may not realize is when Houston decides the flood, you literally can watch the water come up. And if you can't get your car to high ground, you just lose a car. So thank God you and Colin it okay and y'all did the right thing and for our Houston listeners when

the mayor says don't go to work don't go to work yeah yeah and honestly the best thing to do is

if it starts like just torrential downpour is just wherever you're at if you can stay there just

stay there that's yeah and this is a good chance to bitch at Houston particularly the mayor

why doesn't Houston have an app this has been three years in a row that we've dealt with 500-year floods. Why don't we have an app that we can crowdsource water levels and road closures and vehicles that are stalled out and all of that. There's so many logistical issues that come along with flooding that if we had an app that we could prepare

ourselves in the future, maybe we'd be a little bit better off. Obviously, we can't just completely

change the entire infrastructure of Houston. But Jake, the mayor said stay home. I mean,

I don't know why you need an app when he says it's going to be so bad. Don't go to work. Stay

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