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Old 09-06-2017, 06:49 AM
 
Location: Connecticut
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The 9 county Houston metro area covers over 10,000 square miles, with 1,660 of those being urban:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Houston

But many don't seem to realize Harvey affected the Gulf Coast area of Texas from Port Aransas (near Corpus Christi( to the Louisiana border by Port Arthur (roughly 300 miles) and about 150 miles inland (all the way up to Bryan/college Station) Most all of that area got at least a foot of rain or up to 51" over the storm weekend. That's talking about 35,000-45,000 square miles being heavily affected.

At least a quarter million homes flooded along with the loss of 1 to 2 million vehicles. That's just in the greater Houston area. Gonna be a while before the guesstimates become real numbers. Simply amazing that the loss of life is relatively light compared to Katrina.

Way over here in the Austin area of Central Texas, we received 6"-11" of rain that weekend. We were at the extreme western edge of the storm, so the winds were only up to 35-40 knots max. the Texas Hill Country to the west of me got very little, maybe an inch or so of rain.
Yeah a friend of mine in Dallas was on the outer edges of the storm as well. She got heavy rain, but nowhere near the impact of Houston.
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Old 09-06-2017, 11:34 AM
 
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Yeah a friend of mine in Dallas was on the outer edges of the storm as well. She got heavy rain, but nowhere near the impact of Houston.
I was just in Dallas and locals told me it didn't even rain.
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Old 09-06-2017, 06:03 PM
 
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Houston is huge, but that map is not even close to scale, unless it's speaking to population only.
Looks right to me. If you do some comparable distances to towns that would overlay similarly in CT, it's pretty close.

Brookshire to Baytown is ~62 miles and nearly straight.
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Old 09-07-2017, 06:54 AM
 
Location: Connecticut
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I was just in Dallas and locals told me it didn't even rain.
Don't know what to tell you, I wasn't there. The metroplex is pretty big so maybe it didn't rain everywhere. Can't see why my friend would lie.
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