The sun was out Thursday and, despite the flood damage his house on Brazos Avenue, homeowner Randy Reese did not seem overly concerned.

“If my insurance company can pay what I’d like, I’d like to bulldoze down the whole damn place,” he said.

Reese’s complaint was his house was too old. He said it was built in the 1960s and he’s lived in it 15 years but, despite the decades, it didn’t seem in any danger of flooding.

Until Tuesday.

“We went to bed at about 10 only two nights ago,” he said Thursday. “And the wife wakes up and says we got five inches of water in the house.”

Reese was surprised the house flooded at all, and then he was surprised when, after two days, his front yard was still flooded. Thursday morning he held a long metal rod and he was poking it into a storm sewer on his property.

“I’m out here probing the drain,” he said. “They say the pumps are on but the water ain’t moving. There’s gotta be a lot of debris in the drains because they’ve been running all day.”