Posted on 08/24/2017 8:44:29 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Potentially catastrophic Hurricane Harvey approaching Texas Gulf Coast.
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https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10214085451109069&id=1196043916
per one of the comments in the above FB thread, that FB account was taken down & the post is hogwash.
Yeah, I have been there during a hurricane. Houston
I would never stay in Galveston with this one.
I believe it is marshy country around both Goliad and Refugio.
In the Texas War for Indepedence, there were battles at Goliad and Refugio. I went to school at the Catholic school, which had the Church where the battle was fought and still had bullet holes in the wall at that time.
The Texicans won the battles at both places but withdrew and then got lost. The Mexicans captured them and gave them no quarter as prisoners...
Good info—and it pairs up with earlier report about likely landfall at Rockport. Thanks.
Nope, we Houstonians would say "Richmond-Rosenburg" or "SW of Houston", or "Sugarland". But I know of no one who would reference the bedroom community of Katy as a waypoint, unless Katy itself was hit, say by a tornado or something. My vote is still that it's a hoax.
This thing is almost ashore now and will weaken quickly thereafter. It seems to be sucking some dry air, so the radar banding doesn't look as intense as it could have been.
Now, if the Lord will just push it inland to the NW, we can all rest a bit easier, except for the cattle in Bee County, for whom this is a pain in the ass.
Could end up being a Ray Nagin situation.
At the moment, Houston traffic looks a whole lot better than Dallas traffic. I did a Houston run a couple of days ago, and 45 doesn’t look any worse now than it did then. Just the usual TxDot engineered tie ups. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Houston,+TX/@29.9318139,-95.0135119,8.79z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x8640b8b4488d8501:0xca0d02def365053b!8m2!3d29.7604267!4d-95.3698028!5m1!1e1
As for Corpus, worse than Houston, but still better than DFW.
This is a totally unpredictable storm. It could stall out at anytime, stay just offshore for days or any number of different scenarios.Any predictions you see are nothing more than a WAG at the moment.
Hi NN,
Coast Guard and Air Force rescue crews could fly into such conditions and they routinely do in life-and-death situations, but most other military helicopter crews are not trained to fly, or even authorized to fly, into severe weather. In a dire case I, as a former helicopter crew, could try as long as I had minimum visibility, but that’s a great risk to the rest of the crew and even the rescued person. The key is, how do you get back to where it’s clear and can safely land?
Regards,
Thanks! Anyone know how much rain it takes to make major arterials in and around Houston impassible? Just curious.
Thanks much for the military rescue info.
Nope
We have a Texas governor that would overrule his ass in a heartbeat. This ain't Louisiana and adults are in charge.
CC looks ok, but where is CC Naval Air Station? They had much higher winds last hour, NW at 62 gusts to 75.
Didn’t some folks during Camille go to a hotel——and,with a few exceptions,not make it?
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You do have a point.
Or taken by no-kill animal shelter rescue organizations from around the country.
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