If you were inland and west of downtown Houston,

... it appears that the worst part of the storm was the last 4 to 6 hours, when north and then west gales howled over and through the greater part of residential Houston and its suburbs. My neighbors and the co-workers I contacted agreed, based on the sound of the wind. At our home it sounded like a locomotive parked outside the back windows. I'm sure that's when we lost some shingles and the majority of our fence. Just a trickle, thankfully, of windblown water seeped from the bathroom ceiling. I'm guessing that our steady winds here on the southwest side were in the neighborhood of 75 to 80 mph, with some higher gusts. Outside the storm surge zones, the storm was not especially a wet one. The major flooding that took place Sunday was due to the straight-down showers preceding the cold front that slid through.