What is the worst weather event you’ve been through in Houston?

Mine was Hurricane Rita in 2005 – not because it hit our area particularly hard, but because everyone was so on edge after Katrina. My parents made us evacuate from Sugar Land headed southwest towards Victoria and we all took one of their dogs in our cars. Our family rottweiler, Tango, rode with me and he was so nervous in the car that he pooped on the passenger seat – luckily I had put a blanket down but there was no way to stop and clean up the mess. It took our caravan almost 4 hours in stop-and-go traffic to get out of town, only for us to come back two days later and see that we should have just stayed.

Edit: I just looked this up to refresh my memory to see how bad the storm actually was:

Hurricane Rita was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico and the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded.

Texas reported the most deaths from the hurricane, where 113 deaths were reported, 107 of which were associated with the evacuation of the Houston metropolitan area.