Posted on 09/20/2019 10:05:44 AM PDT by 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.
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The major industries in that area are oil/gas and ports.
So, where are these industries going to go?
California has fires. The midwest has tornadoes. We have floods. Every place has it’s problems.
We’re (mostly) fortunate that the area ground was dry....and, not saturated (with previous rains), like when Harvey hit.
Houston area has flooded, for as long as I can remember.
The Dallas area got some much needed rain this morning.
Happened to us a couple of years ago - lit up the house like a searchlight when it took out a pole transformer about 50 yards off - cat went around with an Afro for a couple of days.
My family has lived in this area over 90 years.
I LIKE living here.
You can kiss my burnished backside with your "Southeast Texas, Beaumont ant the surrounding areas, as well as parts of Houston are like New Orleans and should not be places where people live" BS.
The people of New Orleans and Southeast Texas should move to areas that are less likely to flood.
I'll do that as soon as you get a clue.
I obviously won't have to be moving any time soon.
There are places in the country that due to geography is prone to flooding or other disaster on a frequent basis. Southeast Texas is more flood prone than the 9th Ward of New Orleans.
The risk to the American taxpayer is far to great to insure flood losses in arrears that flood so often.
At the very least, we should not insure places that flood so often.
That’s not an “invented” name. I’ve been a meteorologist for 32 years and I was taught that term in 1987. It means any system that deepens by more than one MB an hour over a 24 hour period. That term is the slang we have used for decades. It was around before I was. The meteorological term is “explosive cyclogenesis.” The media just happen to stumble across it in recent years. But it is not something they invented and it is not new.
NELSON111...thanks for the clarification and info. Wow, I would have never guessed. For the record, I kinda like the term “explosive cyclogenesis” now that I’ve just learned it. :)
I saw what you did there! Creative
I call BS on your assertion. PROVE IT!
I will give you credit for that one...
Mississippi River Flood History 1543-Present (28 floods since 1903)
Everybody who lives along the course of that river should move too, right?
You're an idiot!
Got a link for that?
rant follows...
Rain started falling when I moved to San Antonio in my early 20’s and it rained buckets every day for over a week (of course there were breaks).
My apartment was on the first floor and within 10 days I was given a waiver to move out due to the stream running through my guest bedroom, down the hall, and out my front door. I lived in a very nice complex, which at the time cost $1,200/mo. for two bedrooms and one parking spot—so it was no slouch of an apartment.
I do miss those Texas rainstorms, as well as the storms in Kentucky. It ain’t man-made global warming, though. It’s the natural weather/climate cycle of the earth in its ever-changing orbit around the sun.
As an aside...I still have a “book” I wrote as an assignment in the first grade during the 1980’s; it was about pollution and the ozone hole over Antarctica. Surprisingly it wasn’t until I went to college and started thinking for myself that I realized that I had been indoctrinated all through my public school years. I am still chagrined by the trust I put in some of my favorite teachers. They misled and betrayed me to advance their political opinions while acting under the guise of care and most of my peers still hold the worldviews heaped upon them by our public teachers.
Most of my family does not agree with my distaste for public education but my public teachers lied to me to advance their opinions. It hurts to know people I trusted misled me solely for the purpose of advancing their agendas but I’m glad I perceived the deception before I was 21 years old.
/rant
See my post 53.
I moved to San Antonio in June 2002 and lived in Shavano Park.
https://www.weather.gov/media/ewx/wxevents/ewx-200207.pdf
Hope things are going well for you! I do miss San Antonio/TX...see my posts in 53 and 54 if you’re bored =)
No worries. Yeah-with a name like “explosive cyclogenesis”-you can see why a bunch of weather guys just started called them “bombs.” Lol.
While you have cited floods along the Mississippi, times the River has been and times the spillway system has been utilized, it does not indicate the major floods in the New Orleans 9th Ward. Those floods would be the 1927 flood, Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and Katrina in 2005.
In the other hand the Houston and SE Texas area over the last 18 years has seen major flooding from Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, Hurricane Rita in 2005, Hurricane Ike in 2008, Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and Tropical Storm Imelda in 2019.
The frequency of these floods in both the New Orleans area and especially the Houston-Beaumont area are far too frequent for the taxpayers to subsidize.
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Exactly. The hysteria over this is excessive. Bad as it is, it may not be as unusual as it has been portrayed.
The New Orleans 9th Ward has had two major floods in the last 54 years. Betsy and Katrina.
Houston and Southeast Texas has had four major floods in the last 18 years.
None of these areas should have flood insurance subsidized by the taxpayer.
We need people living in Texas, if only for security. People sometimes seem to forget that.
Every state has its issues. People need to remember that.
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