Thank you for your concern, guys. We are fine. We are mainly looking at flooding, but so far we have rain and some strong wind gusts. Grace Draven is in Houston and she just marked herself safe about an hour ago.
ILONA ANDREWS
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Glad to know everything is okay. Hold tight! All the best.
Good to know. Thank you for the update.
Good to know
Just a lemonade comment. It’s a good time to see which areas are flooding? So glad you are doing fine.
Finally a way to post a crocheted Curran. Yes totally off topic.
lolol
Cute Curran ?
Love it
Just had to check on you guys. Glad you are well and thanks for letting us know! Stay SAFE!
Yea, thanks for the update. So which of the two areas you’re interested in is doing better? New Brunfels seemed not bad.
I was worried about you both so it is good to hear that it is not too bad for you
Descriptive fodder for some future urban fantasy couple hunkered down during a hurricane? 🙂
Interesting short piece at least!
Thanks for the update! Stay safe. Hope flooding is not bad
As a NC coastal plain resident, you have my best wishes as you hunker down for the duration. Hang in there!
Keep on staying safe.
Phew! Glad to hear you’re safe.
You sure you want to live in hurricane country? My wife and I chose the upstate area of South Carolina, Lake Keowee. About an hour from Greenville and two from Atlanta.
So glad you’re safe.
Thank you for posting Glad you and family are safe. Hope the rain amounts stay in the single digits.
Thank you for updating us about your family and Grace.
So happy you are all ok…
Don’t drive into any water which used to be a road. I used live in Houston and we had a 3″ storm and I didn’t think about flooding. I forgot that a hurricane had come through 3 weeks before and filled the drains with debris. My car floated until someone pushed me out. Stay safe.
I am glad to hear that y’all are ok. I have been wondering about you. Stay safe.
Thanks for the update, glad to hear you’re doing fine!
Thanks for letting us know; much appreciated!! BTW think the crocheted Curran is pretty cool!!
Really glad to hear that all is relatively ok with you and Grace Draven.
I’m glad you guys are ok, and I hope what Grace Draven means by saying she’s safe is that she and her family have left Houston, because it looks like there is no place to hide there.
I’m glad you all are doing ok!
Good to hear that you and your family, and Grace, are all safe.
We don’t have hurricanes here in the UK so can’t image what it is like to experience them first hand. We see news footage but that is totally not the same.
Stay safe ?
We before someone tells me we do get hurricanes here we usually get the tail end of bad weather here, which is bad enough but nothing like the intensity of what you experience in the US ?
Thank you for letting us know both you all and Grace Draven and her family are doing well.
Glad you, your family and Grace are safe
Thank you for the update – glad to hear that you are all safe. I hope that the damage isn’t too bad, but the rain and flooding can be devastating. I’m hoping that it gets better soon.
Thanks for the post. Glad to know you’re safe.
Thank you for letting us know about you and Grace.
Whew! When I hear about Harvey getting more inland here in Texas, I see how close it is to Austin. So, glad to hear everyone’s safe. Here in DFW, we have overcast with a little bit of rain from the outer bands.
Love the crochet Curran. I’ve seen something similar in an old crochet book I have on how to crochet animals. 🙂
It’s weird. I now live on an island. 🙂 But so far so good. The big concern is the rain just keeps coming!! Glad you all are OK in Austin. Now if Harvey could make up his *(*X)** mind and just MOVE, we can start being done!
Glad you’re ok. I agree with you about Harvey needs to make up its mind and move.
Here, here! Those training bands of rain from a barely moving storm are bad. I have neighbors with water in their house for the first time ever. A lot of people are paying attention to rain rate to anticipate drainage.
I’m glad you’re safe.
On a side note, my husband and I keep speculating how the Hidden Legacy community would be reacting to this hurricane/storm…
Exactly!! Could some House keep the hurricane off shore, or could water mages prevent the flooding? Another question – could Rogan move water itself, or only a container of water????
NPR is on, and saying Austin itself is fine, but on one side there 2-3″ of rain, and on the other, 15-16″. And Houston might get hit in a couple of days. No quick end to this.
Saw this picture in the Washington Post, and all I could think of was, wasn’t that the highway with the big chase scene? It is not looking good for Houston. 24″ in 24 hours with more projected. Hope everyone in Houston stays safe.
I just saw on the Weather Channel that the entire Houston area has major flooding. Interstate 45 is closed both directions in downtown due to flooding. Roads to one of the airports are flooded, so the airport is shut down. It looks like Harvey is going to go back out to the coast, go directly across Houston going north, and hit east Texas. That means DFW area is going to get the backlash of the bands. Oh boy…….
The Weather Channel is saying they’ve never seen a forecast of 50 inches of rain, which Houston is going to get. This takes the song “row, row, row your boat…..” to an extreme.
It rained here in DFW this morning, but the sun is out now. East TX is quite a bit south of here.
My husband told me about the tornado that hit Houston along with Harvey…. I inquired if there were swords in it…..
Poor city. I hope it doesn’t last super much longer
I stay jealous of all you couples who read or write together. I miss the intimacy and joy of sharing a favorite book with your other half. My husband and I used to read the Alex Cross series together but he quit books after our friend borrowed our collection and lost it. He’s infuriatingly stubborn.
I keep thinking of a flooded Jersey Village. Just call us Lake Houston. I am not flooded but need to wait for water to recede to leave neighborhood. We are lucky. Just praying for everyone else.
Thank you, Ilona Andrews. We were wondering how you were surviving Hurricane Harvey. On a positive side since you were considering relocating elsewhere in Texas now you can physically observe floodplains so you will know where you do NOT want to move to.
Thank you for the update.
Excellent news! After Sandy, we in new Jersey know the horror of rising water. Thoughts and prayers with Texas inhabitants.
Crochet Curran – too funny for words!
Glad to hear your family and Grace D are safe, just been watching the latest news on U.K. Tv and it looks horrendous. We in NW England have rain but nothing like Texas is experiencing. Stay safe.
good to hear all okay
Thank you for update on your family and Grace.
My father in law lives north of Conroe so you’ve all been on my worry list today. Keep safe!
Stay safe! Don’t have much experience with hurricanes or tropical storms in the Pacific Northwest.
Prayers for all Texans and Louisianians. So glad you and yours are okay.
Glad you’re ok! Thanks for the update!
I am here in San Antonio and I feel for everyone in the floodzones, I went through several in Florida, but nothing to what is happening now.
On the other hand I would be checking out the areas that are flooding especially if I was planning to move.
I know you can’t really drive around the neighbourhoods, but it is the reason I did not purchase a house in Leon Valley or certain areas of San Antonio we moved here during the 2007 floods. I kept track of the news and used Google maps.
The town’s you were looking at are all good I don’t think there is a bad Texas town especially if you like football.
Anyway keep your family close and stay safe.
So glad you’re all right! I’d consider moving to areas that did not flood this time around. Everyone is saying catastrophic event. And they are so right!
More rain and river swells. Wishing you all safe and sound.
I think I saw mention on Ilona’s Twitter feed yesterday that Grace had to evacuate with 3 children. Or at least had to evacuate their house. I can’t access Twitter at work to see if there’s an update, but I hope they made it out ok.
Bad words. Thank you for posting this.
Thanks for the check in. You guys were on my mind but I wasn’t sure if you lived in Texas or Georgia. I hope the water damage isn’t too bad. We had flooding during Sandy when we lived back east. Not fun. Had to strip the floor of the entire first floor.
Hope your human and furry kids are doing okay as well. Sending love your way. ❤️
Nice to know that you are doing okay.
Here in California we don’t get hurricanes, we get Typhoons instead.
And mudslides. And forest fires.
Speaking of mudslides… Did they ever get the road to Big Sur reopened?
As far as I know, not yet.
I am so glad your family is okay!
I’m glad you are fine!
I feel kind of bad because as I watch the news I sort of recognize the general areas they are talking about from your books. And I keep thinking you nailed it with your most recent Hidden Legacy one. So that is very cool and exciting, except it’s real and people are suffering, which is not.
Anyway, glad you guys are safe.
After Katrina someone once told me, “If no good deed goes unpunished…we sure must be doing a whole lot of good…because we sure do receive a whole lot of punishment…” –
My cousin and I spent time together today looking for new books to read, and though she’s read all of your books 8+ times, I still ended up buying her new paperbacks of the Hidden Legacy series. (well, #2 and #3) She loves your books that much. Of course, as usual, though we have a good time, and laugh, my brain gets in the way.
To think, on days we hangout, when I get home and mentally review our time together I just want to edit life… It is an UNDERSTATEMENT of Biblical proportions. Sure, it may have sucked scrapping your new Kate story, but at least for Kate’s sake you got to scrap it and start over. In reality we get one pass, and I find myself all too familiar with the taste of toe-cheese.
My cousin is simultaneously, the most frightening person in my life (I generally exude full mental breakdown around her) and most special person in my life (she’s sure to roll her eyes and apoplexy upon reading this)… And I thank you! It’s been your books that have helped nurture our friendship the most and I thank you for all the FEAR and the LAUGHS!
So, because of that, I’d like to say –
I don’t know you on any personal level, but I’ve read (some of) your blogs, read/reading your books (which has given me the greatest gift in the world), and sent an email to you which was replied to with nothing but kindness. I want to believe you’re good people; I almost have to. It shows in your work and it leaches from your work. Which brings us back to that old adage – “No good deed goes unpunished.”
I, sincerely, hope your flooding problems are not too bad and your family is safe. We went through Katrina in ’05 and the aftermath is no picnic. Whether you’re religious, or not, prayers for you and everyone else (humans and animals) that will deal with Harvey.
Best regards,
JWC
P.S. I still cannot get her to read OR WATCH – The Princess Bride! You’ve got to tag in here…Use a power word on her. (Amehe, does not work.)
So I hope you don’t mind but I’m wondering how all of you are!? Two days have passed with a continuation of rain and flooding so I have been sending up prayers and positive thoughts for everyone in the area. May blessings wrap around you and keep you all safe as well as Ms. Draven!
On TV tonight the news footage of Houston was devastating. Some awesome acts of human kindness but the scale of the flooding almost made me cry. Take care.
Hope you are all (and Grace Draven) still okay. Images on the news look pretty devastating.
Hope you are all doing well, including Grace. I read some of your harrowing twitter responses on trying to drive through the flood. Yikes! Michigan hasn’t had another bad flood since a few years ago but it was tiny in comparison to what you are going through. Good luck and prayers to everyone in the Greater Houston area.
Saw new footage of the floods I Texas on the BBC news…hope you guys are still ok.
It’s not just the trauma of the hurricane it’s the damage it leaves behind that is awful. ?
my heart goes out to those that have lost loved ones and treasured memories
Be safe ?
I just donated to the American Red Cross for the Harvey relief effort. It was a very painless process. If anyone who reads my post. please donate to the relief effort if you can.
For those who live in the Carolinas, stay safe. I heard yesterday the coast is going to get rain from a new tropical storm (or barely there tropical storm). Hopefully the storm moves away fast.
I am glad to know that you and your family are safe.
I hope this does not come across insensitive or offensive in any way but I just finished reading Wildfire and I cannot help but get goosebumps when reading the last chapter. What a coincidence that you wrote a scene that happened in Houston involving a potentially disastrous tornado.
I’m still shook.
Sure hope you are all still safe! So odd about coincidence… I just finished listening to audio of Grace Draven’s Radiance & I’m now listening to book 2: Eidolon….good stuff….
P.S. We need to STOP believing in the storm getting bigger and becoming a hurricane and just believe in the storm staying a storm….we are more powerful than we think we are (a la Marianne Williamson). For latest about us & science/physics of Miracles, try “You Are the Universe” by Deepak Chopra & Menas C. Kafatos
What a great recommendation! I loved this book!
Hi; my best friend (whose name is Ogechi) introduced me to your books about 5 years ago and I have been hooked on them ever since. I’ve read some of the Kate Daniel books about 5 times and I gotta say you are truly blessed in your writing. It’s made me laugh and smile and I await each book with joy that is similar to unwrapping gifts on Christmas Day! Thank you so much for your time and talent ; you’ve made a lot of people happy. I hope you and your family are okay in Houston.
God bless and many more awesome days for you and yours.
Thanks again.