Hurricane Harvey Hits Texas Coast!

Jen Carfagno on the Weather Channel is still hot after all these years.

 

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Just saw a report on Rockport damage and it showed a liquor store with the windows blown out and bottles of liquor still on the shelves. Not a single looter in sight. Most folks evacuated and the ones who didnt must have more important things to think about. Stay classy Texans.

 

I know right? Why couldn't he sign an executive order banning hurricanes? Is it because he is a Nazi sympathizer?

 

Harvey is a racist name. The NWS should ban hurricanes named Harvey.

 

2.25% black population, stark contrast from NOLA. Explains the lack of looting.

 

Poor Aggies...

 

Yeah, I wondered where Kos got their story about Harvey affecting more blacks. Hardly any public housing along the coast. Jus sayin...

 

Funny!

 

Bit of a different story Saturday night. Business flooded so lots of work cleaning up all night, severe flooding for 3 or 4 hours till it cleared up. Took an extra 15 minutes to get home and find a passable route but things were better around my house and no flooding there which is normally 10 minutes away. Other areas in the Houston Metro are hit pretty hard, rough for elderly or people with kids. Unbelievable watching people risk driving through high water to make beer runs to the store across from where I work while I was outside smoking, not worth the damage at 3am during a storm.

Flooding to bad to do oil and gas work, even the guys in the refineries would have been flooded in and on site as they are on the ship channel.

 

Two people have already died in this Cat 4 hurricane. How long will it take for the media to begin the "Trump Body Count"?

 

Heard this morning that Gov Abbott thanked the president for early response. Even though the devastation continues, there's lots of resources to help victims survive.

Of course, we'll never hear that reported on msm because it makes Trump's admin look good.

 

My sil lives in Seabrook and I havent heard from her. She lost her house to Ike, rebuilt... now I'm hoping she didnt lose it again.

 

This is an unprecedented hurricane. A 500 year event. They're talking about:

1) 40" to 50" of rain,
2) in a metro area of 7+ million,
3) with flat terrain,
4) that's filled with rivers and bayous.

 

We are kinda laughing about the 500 year things around here. This is a lot like Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, +40" of rain and similar flooding conditions in the flood plains. Its bad, but a lot of infrastructure was either made or improved because of that storm so at least it drains faster if it floods.

 

Heavy rains are not uncommon in Texas. The recurrence interval of precipitation amounts of this magnitude seem to be about every 25 years. Tropical Storm Claudette in 1979 holds the record for the most rain in a 24 hour period at 42" in Alvin, TX.

 

Picture of downtown Houston (9:08 AM - 27 Aug 2017):

 

Well... that and the fact there are just over 10,000 residents.

But you can turn anything into a race card, can't you?

 

TX got a boat load of water, very quickly, no pun intended, but that is an incredible amount of rain.

 

That is a great shot to highlight the amount of rain.!!

 

Fools!