Texas drowning under 1 of wettest storms in U.S. history(recorded)

wnd.com ^ | 9/20/2019 | staff

[rktman]

Record-breaking rainfall from the tropical storm Imelda is soaking southeastern Texas. Some areas have been swamped with 20 to 42 inches (51 to 107 centimeters) of rain over just three days, causing catastrophic flooding that is among the worst in U.S. history.

Imelda, the first named storm to strike this part of Texas since 2017's devastating Hurricane Harvey, is currently the fifth-wettest tropical storm to drench the contiguous U.S., The Weather Channel tweeted today (Sept. 19). Storms that drop this much rain are estimated to appear once in a millennium, according to precipitation models created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But the last 1,000-year-rainfall to inundate Texas was Hurricane Harvey — which slammed the state just two years ago.

[bgill]

Houston floods when a bird tinkles. It’s flat and low lying land coastal land. Top that with all the concrete from the growth and there’s no soil left to soak up the rain.

[bgill]

Insurance shouldn’t pay out but once. After that, too bad.

[SunTzuWu]

Weather Channel says it is the 5th wettest day for Houston. Not even close to the wettest day in history.

[bgill]

Texas has had the coolest July in years.

[zeugma]

They could send that rain up to DFW. We could use it. They are being selfish, hogging it all.

[bgill]

Depending on the geography in your immediate area, that 30% rain the local broadcast predicts may skip your particular address 99.9% of the time. Can’t tell you how many times the rain falls on the neighbors’ side of the fence and never on my side.

[MrEdd]

Tropical Storm Imelda was a shoe in to be called once in a lifetime.

[Robert DeLong]

A postman walks through streets flooded by the tropical storm Imelda, as he delivers mail in Galveston, Texas

I've seen it higher than that in New Orleans in rainstorms without names. Perhaps it is worse than this in other places though.

[CJ Wolf]

http://www.softschools.com/inventions/history/rain_gauge_history/265/

1400s. Invented for taxation purposes.

[kanawa]

Everything is bigger in Texas.

[Veto!]

My sister and brother-in-law live in Kingwood, north of Houston. Very nice suburb with lots of trees. Spoke with them last night when nightly news showed tree falling in Kingwood, because ground so wet it couldn’t hold the roots.

I called them. They sent picture of their front yard. Totally soaked with rain puddles that came up to exactly 2 inches from their front door.

God must be watching over them.

[Starstruck]

1400s. Invented for taxation purposes.

I was talking about Texas not Taxes. LOL

[KamperKen]

"Uh, if it happened in the little ice age wouldn’t it have been snow? Just sayin’. :-)

That was my assumption until I read that. So, yes, snow during the winter and a cooler atmosphere during the spring and summer months that doesn't retain the water vapor.

There are all sorts of things that I would have never predicted and seem counter intuitive.

One surprising thing that I've read is that as the solar cycle weakens (fewer sunspots, lower magnetic field) volcanism goes up.

Another surprising thing is that the North Pole was ice free during the last ice age as was Siberia.

[liberalh8ter]

Can’t answer that question for you because they felt the need to go full Demtard with a special interview with “Democrat Candidate for President, Corey Booker” to discuss climate change. I had to switch the channel immediately because I know darn well this won’t be counted as a “like kind” donation to his campaign and I’m sick of the WC’s commie BS and rewriting history of their own fear-mongering (telling Floridians to ignore the Euro model on Irma because it was wrong and then after the fact, telling it’s audience they followed and agreed with the Euro all along).

[CJ Wolf]

Imagine in the 1400s a bunch of Koreans running around saying climate change is killing my crop production. King says prove it. Instant climate science to drive taxation based on a measurable outcome. The rain. Geeze this global warming racket has been going on for a long time.

[rktman]

Finally the northwest passage. Oh, too late.

[KamperKen]

"Finally the northwest passage. Oh, too late."

LOL

[EQAndyBuzz]

I’m by 1604 and 35. Was slammed last night. I was hanging out in the garage taking video.

[Bearshouse]

The people of New Orleans and Southeast Texas should move to areas that are less likely to flood.

I'm not sure I know a place that wouldn't flood after nearly 4' of rain in 72 hours or in the case of Harvey over 5' in 4 days. Right now it's running off fairly well with underpasses and low lying highways being the biggest problems. We are stuck in little islands with no access to groceries or gas, but at least the power has stayed on this time. I know everyone here isn't as fortunate.

[mfish13]

Hardly a drop in Dallas and west, suburbs of Dallas and east were hit.