Hurricane Harvey

[JC18]

Houston is about to be rocked, and really behind in music performances.

[Xenon]

Also much of The Valley, Corpus, and Victoria areas. Please be safe and evacuate if suggested.

[MadisonBandMan1]

I was thinking of making a thread about this too. I wish all of those homes left alone well also, for they are about to be hit by the worst hurricane to hit Texas in 47 years. Don't forget the 3 feet of rain.

[MadisonBandMan1]

This is bad. It's the first category 4 hurricane to hit Texas since 1961. Godspeed to those who decided to stay home along the coast. They are saying this is setting up to be the worst natural disaster in is history.

[MadisonBandMan1]

In US history*

[SamuelCulper]

It is highly unlikely to surpass the 1900 hurricane. That had a 15 foot storm surge and over 6,000 people killed.

[JC18]

CFISD, as I'm sure many districts in Houston will, has just announced they are closed for the week. That's going to severely hurt bands like Cy-Fair

[LeanderMomma]

  On 8/27/2017 at 5:16 PM, JC18 said:

CFISD, as I'm sure many districts in Houston will, has just announced they are closed for the week. That's going to severely hurt bands like Cy-Fair

It's going to affect San Antonio and Austin area bands as well. No practice for awhile. The Dallas bands will definitely have an advantage come BOA time. But none of that is ultimately truly important. Let's pray for Houston right now and all of the surrounding affected areas. It's bad down here.

[JC18]

  On 8/27/2017 at 6:00 PM, LeanderMomma said:

 

It's going to affect San Antonio and Austin area bands as well. No practice for awhile. The Dallas bands will definitely have an advantage come BOA time. But none of that is ultimately truly important. Let's pray for Houston right now and all of the surrounding affected areas. It's bad down here.

It is awful. I didn't mean as that's the most important, just a sidenote. Cleanup is going to take a while. Keep Houston in your prayers.

[LKendrick]

I think I speak for everyone when I say I hope everyone has stayed safe and is still staying safe with all of the flooding and destruction, I have some friends who teach down there and it sounds like an absolute mess.  It might have put them all behind but as long as everyone is okay and they're doing what has to be done to ensure safety for the students that can go on the back burner.  

[MadisonBandMan1]

I hope the Houston bands get the ability to travel outside of Houston and use someone's Stadium or something so they don't fall behind. I really hope someone steps up for them in light of this horrible situation. After all this, they don't deserve for anything to get worse.

[MadisonBandMan1]

  On 8/27/2017 at 6:00 PM, LeanderMomma said:

It's going to affect San Antonio and Austin area bands as well. No practice for awhile. The Dallas bands will definitely have an advantage come BOA time. But none of that is ultimately truly important. Let's pray for Houston right now and all of the surrounding affected areas. It's bad down here.

SA bands will be fine. The skies actually cleared quite a bit here today for a while. I saw the sun.

[LeanderMomma]

  On 8/28/2017 at 3:41 AM, MadisonBandMan1 said:

SA bands will be fine. The skies actually cleared quite a bit here today for a while. I saw the sun.

Austin's forecast is looking up as well. But Conroe is about to be a complete mess as they are having to release water in record levels from the dam at Lake Conroe.

[zururoua]

I feel really bad for the people and bands in the Houston area, here in SA it's been pretty OK, just steady rain where I live.

[ChristopherRoden]

Unfortunately Fort Bend ISD, Houston ISD and a few others have closed up for the entire week resuming school, and band rehearsal on the 5th

[JC18]

It may get worse, I know several CFISD schools have experienced catastrophic floodings that may take more than a week of school to fix.

[MadisonBandMan1]

I can't believe JJ. Watt raised 31 million dollars already. That's amazing.

[herbaflerb]

  On 8/27/2017 at 6:00 PM, LeanderMomma said:

It's going to affect San Antonio and Austin area bands as well. No practice for awhile. The Dallas bands will definitely have an advantage come BOA time. But none of that is ultimately truly important. Let's pray for Houston right now and all of the surrounding affected areas. It's bad down here.

 

Missed about a week of focused rehearsal. It was rough for most of everyone in the area.

[TWHSParent]

Our kids missed their regularly scheduled practices during the week school was out, but UIL allowed schools to have athletic and band practices at the discretion of local school administration (this info is all at http://www.uiltexas.org/athletics/hurricane-harvey for those curious). Our administration allowed practices, so they were back with sectionals on Thursday and Friday while school was out, and did a summer-band like day on Saturday to make up the drill time. So in essence our kids didn't miss any time, but did have about a week between drill sessions, so their cadence was messed up a bit.

[LeanderMomma]

  On 9/14/2017 at 11:22 AM, TWHSParent said:

Our kids missed their regularly scheduled practices during the week school was out, but UIL allowed schools to have athletic and band practices at the discretion of local school administration (this info is all at http://www.uiltexas.org/athletics/hurricane-harvey for those curious). Our administration allowed practices, so they were back with sectionals on Thursday and Friday while school was out, and did a summer-band like day on Saturday to make up the drill time. So in essence our kids didn't miss any time, but did have about a week between drill sessions, so their cadence was messed up a bit.

That's great! I'm sure the Woodlands won't miss a beat come time for competition. ;-)