Posted on 08/24/2017 8:44:29 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Potentially catastrophic Hurricane Harvey approaching Texas Gulf Coast.
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Prayers for both the humans and animals in the affected area. Stay safe South TX FRpers.
Fox just had that warning on.....all sorts of major happenings should be expected IMO.
Look at the size of the storms heading for Galveston Bay and over toward Sabine Pass. Talk about rain!
LIFE! THREATENING! RAINFALL!!!!!
(just breathlessly reported on radio)
Wow... that’s MUCH better quality data than we used to get in the old days.
I spend this morning hosting a customer from South Africa who is flying back to Houston today. She was supposed to be in Houston over the weekend, and visiting Lake Charles on Monday.
I suggested she check with her people in Lake Charles before boarding the plane today. But, if it were me? I’d head SOMEWHERE else. Her first idea was to go to New Orleans. I said... um... no. Better to go to Chicago. Or, best yet.. STAY here in Louisville and let me take you to some bourbon distilleries.
Houston’s in Harris County, IIRC. Harris County has a flood control district. What in bloody blue blazes do those folks do if they don’t mitigate flood risk?
Dude, it could very well be life threatening.
“Hey, whatever sells papers...”
Exactly. With all prayers for Texans obviously, this why they paid their insurance, and only fools try to ride out these things.
Trust me, in 130k winds, there is nothing you’re going to do to “save the house.”
I just heard they think it’s going to stall for about 12 hours near Goliad. That’s near Refurio isn’t it?
could be
LOCATION...27.2N 96.4W
ABOUT 75 MI...120 KM ESE OF CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS
ABOUT 85 MI...135 KM S OF PORT OCONNOR TEXAS
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...120 MPH...195 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 325 DEGREES AT 10 MPH...17 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...943 MB...27.85 INCHES
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Part of what they do is torture small builders who don’t have enough money to buy influence about the size of their detention pond or in-kind flood remediation. The other part is mow the bayous and drainage and such.
Basically the Galveston Bay Basin is a big flat bottomed bowl and if scaled down to the size of a pool table would probably be flatter than a pool table. If this much rain as expected falls on such an area and drains from the slightly higher surrounding area to the north, ne and nw there is simply no way to get it out fast enough There will be floods. It is unavoidable. Only the local high spots are saved.
Compound the rain with storm surge in Galveston Bay where all the water has to go before it exits the few passes from the Bay and you have even worse flooding.
Houston has about as much freeboard above the sea as you would have by placing a piece of cardboard in a puddle.
my clients in Houston have closed their offices to reopen probably tuesday
Prayers for Texas freepers.
What would you call 53 inches of rain from a single storm?
Absolutely.
Surf’s up!
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