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Allison, June 5-9, 2001 .. Trucks on I-10
610 Loop East south of I-10 after water receded.
I-10 near TC Jester
Posted on 06/19/2006 7:43:42 AM PDT by Miztiki
Looks like Houston is a mess and things could get a whole lot worse.
How is your part of town looking? Roads? Flooding?
We're in Pearland near where 1128 and 518 (Broadway) intersect. Our yard has a small amount of standing water but all looks well for now.
It's a "closed low". It does have circulation, but it isn't tropical in nature, just an area of heavy convection.
Brays Bayou is just normal, one of the few.
What is a system like this called, besides a "low"? Anyone know?
I don't know if it has a name of its own, but the effect
is called "training showers" where you have a low pressure
area on one side sucking up wet unstable air from the gulf on the other side.
It sort of perpetuates itself, one shower after another.. like a train.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I've been in it - it's pretty amazing to see - much like Allison, except then it never stopped.
I don't think the back-wrap stuff is going to be as heavy or as much.
Yes, it was - but no need to make it worse than it was, lol. We only had 36" in the areas that received the very most, such as my house.
Allison fooled us because she went away and then came back 3-4 days later, about 4AM when we didn't expect it. That's when I got an additional 8" in less than 2 hours.
There was also Claudette, which I believe dropped even more rain, but I didn't live here during that period of time.
It's started again up here.
There went Psycho out her doggy door.
Syncronized fork lifting?
Let's lobby the Olympic committee...
Actually Alvin does hold the US record for rainfall within a 24 hour period, 41" (though not during Allison) IIRC.
That would be a step toward an Olympics I'd actually watch!
Participate in, even.
kprc.com has live video
Yup, that was Claudette.
ON channel 13 the weather man said that the low may be stuck, or if the high pushes it out, it will go to the southwest and we will be ok for tomorrow. If it gets stuck and nothing pushes it out, then tomorrow morning may be another flood.
Ya know, it is pretty easy to spot the reporters who are new to Houston, they are the ones continually expressing amazement, shock, and fear that children are playing in the floodwaters. Yeah, the water isn't potable clean and you don't want to get into it with a cut, but we grew up playing in all the floods on our streets and somehow survived. Just depends where you are, our street didn't have manholes or fast currents, just slow drainage.
Did the channel 13 guy say what the chances are of that high pushing the low away fast enough for it to not cause major problems?
What are y'alls opinion of the channel 2 weather guy? He seems to think we will get hit again.
CH 2 reporter talking about popping manholes...not mentioning the sewage in all that water...but its there.
The 13 guy really didnt know. He just said it depends. He said that it COULD dump rain on areas that really don't have much, OR it could dump it where it is already soaked. He does say we will get something, but I guess it depends on how fast it comes across and whether the high pushes it out or not.
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Allison, June 5-9, 2001 .. Trucks on I-10
610 Loop East south of I-10 after water receded.
I-10 near TC Jester
reporting from The Heights... there is a reason it's call "The Heights" :) although White Oak Bayou was getting very near it's banks as I left out for work at 11:00 this a.m.
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