Posted on 08/26/2017 4:39:50 AM PDT by NautiNurse
It does sound scary! Hope y’all don’t get too much rain from it...and NO damage!
Praying for you and yours, Jane! - and for many of our friends and family, including my son, who are in the path of this storm.
Harvey is a beast—especially for producing worst weather after dark.
at least it stoped raining for now between the DAMS and KATY
Harris county is under attack and shields are slowly weakening with time....
if shields fail and a hit in the right spot(aka the dams fill and we get heavy rain rates in the right spot)
bye bye
Hope you all are doing Otay. Please Keep us posted.
We rode out the storm on Padre Island. We live on a canal on the Island, which is a barrier island just south of Corpus Christi. It was wild!
We had winds around 80 - 90 mph and about 9 ft. of surge. Our foundation is at @ 11 ft. Our lower deck was underwater and we had one window blow out and a fence blow down. Compared to our neighbors (and Rockport/Port A) we skated on this one. We have no power and have just now started to get water back. We’ve got generator power for the fridge/freezer, some fans and lights and are using a T-mobile hotspot for internet connectivity. It’s muggy, but BOY, we’re happy to have what we have.
With all of the hyperbole and dire warnings issued by local/national news, one never knows what to believe. So, we just gather as much information as we can and make the best decision we can.
Right now, the winds are <25 mph and we’ve had no rain to speak of all day. North and east of here will get more, going forward.
We’re thankful that we escaped with so little damage and pray for those who didn’t. It was a crazy, stressful, eventful night. But we’re glad we did what we did.
Thanks for all the information this thread provided.
Prayers up to all still in the path of wind and rain.
According to Joe Bastardi and the European models, none of what you just brought up happens.
Should sit and slowly loop back down to the coast, Then head for Houston. Days of torture to get there. However since it is such a slow moving event, everyone and there grandmother are plotting maps. Because....
that band has almost stalled now..as east winds aloft(notice the eastward moving storms over SE TX and LA off the coast) halt it
the Harris county rainfall Map is down..may be overloaded with traffic
signs of the GAP filling in back west between that band and Harvey
not good
Wow. Incredible story. Did the eye pass over you ?
Wow. Incredible story. Did the eye pass over you ?
Gonna be real bad. Feeder bands running through Houston, San Antonio and Austin. You really cannot plan for this scenario.
Looking at radar and lurking on the met board it sounds like the stuff is fixing to hit the fan in Houston.
More heavy rain behind Addicks and Barker dams. Not good...
I’m in Pasadena, about 100 feet from Houston proper (the streets change names all of a sudden at the transition point). Would confuse the hell out of me when I first moved here a year ago.
I lived in Corpus my whole life before hand. (All the pictures of Corpus in the news make me homesick, as I’ve walked all those places they’ve shown on TV.)
Anyway, it’s raining cats and dogs over here right now in Pasadena. It’s like the Biblical deluge. Thunder and lightning are constant. Meanwhile, Houston Chronicle posting up articles from September for some reason on their facebook page talking about how the dams can break if hit by a perfect storm. Whoo!
If Addicks dam keeps filling at the current rate, it'll be at the top of the spillway by tomorrow and they'll have no choice but to open it into the Buffalo Bayou or have a failure.
That would be biblical Houston flooding.
Heavy banding of storms just moved from western Houston to Eastern Houston. There saying some 6 inches an hour in these bands. Gonna measure in feet.
The guys over at KHOU are scared. Can’t hide the body language and they’ve dropped the hype.
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