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I am seeing few reports of damage, a couple street signs down, some power lines but that is all CNN can find, it seems. No flooding of consequence. It's coming, it's coming! Sure it is. This looks like another weather event over-hyped by the media.
Harvey went from a Tropical storm to CAT 4 Hurricane in a few days - there is plenty of damage, but the Corpus Christi area Coastal Bend got "Lucky" that Harvey didn't hit the more populated Large City. Certainly not good for Rockport/Fulton (and area I'm VERY familiar with) - but Lucky for "Life". No fatalities reported so far.
Perhaps CNN was just not covering the story - I said from the beginning, there won't be heading flooding in the Costal Bend and I posted the Elevation maps to show why I said that (Media could have done a better job in the area of Hype on flooding) -- The flooding was always going to be from the heavy/sustained rain fall and I hate to shock you - BUT, Harvey is still a CAT 1 storm and it's STILL raining.
I also said over and over that the Flooding areas would be inland (and they are) and the worst of it would be Houston - and that is still to happen.
Houston got a great reminder last year in April, when they got 12-17 inches of rain dropped on them - they KNOW where the flooded areas are likely to be and people are reminded to not drive in floods and be aware of where the high water will be.
There will still be damage - but everyone is ready and rescue teams are already staged.
I'm sure we all hope that the Houston Area comes through this as well as the Coastal Bend did.
I'm sure we all hope that Harvey goes up into a watershed area and not into the populace areas.
It would be really nice if some of the nasty partisanship could take a break for a day or two and just hope that people/property in the path of this freaky storm stay SAFE and don't lose their Homes.
I've seen news crews in Rockport this morning .... but I don't watch CNN.
Best news and reports have been the Local Paper reports and the Corpus Christi ABC station that has been Live Broadcasting all through the storm - I posted those Links early this morning.
Funny how the neighboring house wasn't damaged. Maybe a tornado or perhaps someone didn't follow the building codes.
Tornados in Hurricane are a big problem - they are NOT like the normal Big Tornados that are seen in Tornado Season that form after crossing a cool/high Mountain range and hit warm air. Hurricane Tornados are small and form with the rotation of the Hurricane and then drop to the ground - they might hit only once or bounce a bit, but the damage is usually pretty isolated. I've seen an entire street of cars and only ONE was tossed into a house or an entire street of homes and one was nearly demolished while the others were untouched. I'm guessing that most media people look at Hurricane damage and never consider that some of it is not just the wind/rain - but it's these small twisters.
Nothing to do with building codes .... just unlucky enough to be where the twister dropped.
LOL at Texas tough. Good for her - and it's good she's not alone.
I would be worrying like hell if I ever experienced a hurricane, not having grown up in a coastal state. I know some folks say the same about major snowfalls and tornadoes, but this seems like torture that just goes on for days with people having nothing to do but wonder how bad it will get.
Well, please keep checking in (not that you're going anywhere...lol) so we know what's going on.
Haha, I've legit never seen her cry.
Yeah, I hear ya. I used to live in the Midwest, and as much as I loved storms, tornadoes worried me more, because you really can't plan for them, like you can for hurricanes.
Will do, not doing much today other than working out and watching football.
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I don't know Houston, but I have been looking at a NWS hydrograph prediction for Buffalo Bayou that has a max stage of 64.8 feet on Wednesday. This would break the previous record by nearly 4 feet.
Popular dog park at Buffalo Bayou park not too far from where I live (part of the reason why I went to my girlfriend's, who is a little west of the Galleria): https://twitter.com/nnessaaa/status/...547009/photo/1
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I hope you are right but I think that a lot of rainfall is yet to come and a lot of people have died in the past venturing out after the worst of the storm has subsided only to get caught in rising waters.
THIS is what I'm worried about and keep telling my girlfriend. It's not "bad" in most of Houston, so wouldn't surprise me to see people try to venture out tonight with the Mayweather vs. McGregor fight, among other things.
And if it gets nasty, you have a lot of people out and about.
Is that their inept government or ours? I thought the Army Corp of Engineers were in charge of that?
New Orleans Government - I read about it all several days ago. It's 8 pumps, not 15 and 3 Turbines that run the pumps are inoperable (one has been in repair for 6 years ). Another problem appears to be lack of trained operators to run the equipment. This was all discovered early this month when the pumps could deal with a 4inch rainfall. 2 people in charge "resigned/retired" and they are "investigating".
From what I read - the issue is their inept handling of MONEY - they spend their money on stupid stuff instead of making sure that equipment responsible for keeping water out of the streets and homes.
FEMA heard about their issues (a lot of New Orleans media reporting and Washington Times picked up the story) and they sent Turbines to New Orleans a couple of days ago to be ready if they need to pump.
Army core of Engineers has some (if not all) responsibility for the Levy - the City is responsible for pumping out the Bowl that is New Orleans.
The 1995 storm was basically a linear chain of thunderstorms that just plowed in as a narrow but continuous band so it really just piled up on the aforementioned areas and wouldn't have done anything notable to the northern suburbs.
I'm going to say that due to our high taxes in Lake County, we just insist the storms stay south of Cook...lol.
Where are you currently? I think you've posted it in Work and Employment, but I don't recall.
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It sucks, but at least you have some time to prepare, unlike a tornado or an earthquake. Though we have had a couple of tornados here due to this storm. Luckily, no one was hurt.
Good point, Katy. Sometimes people are out driving when they suddenly hear the sirens and have to find a place to go. Worse is seeing a tornado while driving on an isolated rural road - all you can do is look for a ditch to lie in and hope for the best.
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I don't think the legislature goes back into session until after Labor Day.
LOL! FUNNY! Now there's a zoo I wouldn't mind seeing swept away to some island.
When a stronger storm weakens the core winds spread out more. This was a small core system with the strongest winds close to the center of the storm like Charlie was in 04.
Charley was an extremely small, fast moving storm. Came over us like a freight train, hard and quick. Friends in Mt Dora, about 25 miles away only had some rain and a bit of wind, while we got 100+ mph gusts. 90 minutes after the worst of the storm (sitting in the dark, hearing trees crashing down) everything was normal. No rain and just a gentle breeze.
Went out at dawn to see a huge pine tree in our backyard went down right between the two houses in back; pine needles brushing each house but no damage, except to the fence. 40 ft Cherry Laurel was twisted apart like a giant hand had come down from the sky.
Others were not so lucky. Next block over a tree went down on one end of the house. They got it cut up and off of the house and a blue tarp up. Three weeks later when Frances sideswiped us, tree went down on the other end of the house. Two houses up from us, tree went down directly on their car in the driveway; so long car.
After going through three direct hits and several brushes during my many years in Florida, really happy to be up here this hurricane season!
Charley was an extremely small, fast moving storm. Came over us like a freight train, hard and quick. Friends in Mt Dora, about 25 miles away only had some rain and a bit of wind, while we got 100+ mph gusts. 90 minutes after the worst of the storm (sitting in the dark, hearing trees crashing down) everything was normal. No rain and just a gentle breeze.
Went out at dawn to see a huge pine tree in our backyard went down right between the two houses in back; pine needles brushing each house but no damage, except to the fence. 40 ft Cherry Laurel was twisted apart like a giant hand had come down from the sky.
Others were not so lucky. Next block over a tree went down on one end of the house. They got it cut up and off of the house and a blue tarp up. Three weeks later when Frances sideswiped us, tree went down on the other end of the house. Two houses up from us, tree went down directly on their car in the driveway; so long car.
After going through three direct hits and several brushes during my many years in Florida, really happy to be up here this hurricane season!
I was very upset we got nothing in Tampa no rain or anything. Tiny small core winds about 30 miles from the center when it made landfall. Lived in Tampa since 1963 and have yet to have one storm.
I was very upset we got nothing in Tampa no rain or anything. Tiny small core winds about 30 miles from the center when it made landfall. Lived in Tampa since 1963 and have yet to have one storm.
You're, uh... upset that you didn't get hit by a hurricane?
You're, uh... upset that you didn't get hit by a hurricane?
I like blow bys with winds around 70mph and 10" of rain or more. Nothing lights my fire knowing bad weather is on the way ray. And our weather is flat out boring in FL thanks to a rapid warming planet. Worst weather we had was the no name storm in March 13th 1993 since i was born. And that was a cold front.
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