Harvey headed to south texas

[icepac]

Category 4 as of this moment.

Le's hope it doesn't linger.

[Pudgie]

My daughter lives in Houston & she has retreated to her apartment to ride it out.

She rode out Rita a few years back............she's a Houstonian now she tells me........

Houston proper doesn't handle a lot of water on the ground very well so there's bound to be some pretty bad flooding going on.............

Hopefully Harvey will take a trek that will miss a lot of folks.

 

 

[Zimme83]

My folks live in Corpus Christi.  They are all boarded up and ready.  Corpus is one of the few cities which is well prepared for hurricanes.  110MPH winds are really not worrying them too much.  If it gets over 150MPH, then they sweat it.

I grew up there and went through three of those big monsters.  The surfing was always great then.   Now, if you live on the island, you better get out of there, even if it is a small hurricane.

What they do worry about are the tornadoes which follow a hurricane.  This one looks like it is going to be a light one, in that regard.

Got up to a Cat 4 hurricane and 130mph sustained winds before landfall. Down to a cat 1 hurricane now but flooding seems to be the major issue.

[Maverick]

Just now starting to get the leading edge of rain at my location, 200 miles inland. A little wind, maybe 25 to 30 MPH and sprinkles so far. The weather channel said it got to cat 4 just as it hit Corpus Christi. Some significant damage there. The wife spent some time living in Corpus and said she doesn't recognize anything there any more after a couple hurricanes hit there about 50 years ago. Most of the old buildings from that time (residences and light commercial) were taken out.

[Skuzzy]

Between Celia in 1972 and Alicia in 1983, the city was pretty much rebuilt.

The folks tell me they lost a tree limb.

[NatCigg]

this storm is very interesting, a stranded tropical low.  how would you like to have a hurricane over your house, for a week!

 

yesterdays gfs had the low sitting down there....forever, until it just fills in (2 weeks +).  you guys like rain?

[thndregg]

My folks live in Corpus Christi.  They are all boarded up and ready.  Corpus is one of the few cities which is well prepared for hurricanes.  110MPH winds are really not worrying them too much.  If it gets over 150MPH, then they sweat it.

I grew up there and went through three of those big monsters.  The surfing was always great then.   Now, if you live on the island, you better get out of there, even if it is a small hurricane.

What they do worry about are the tornadoes which follow a hurricane.  This one looks like it is going to be a light one, in that regard.

I have wanted to head down thataway and check out my uncle's ship, the Lexington. Saw a short clip on their FB page of them bringing everything below for the storm.

[BoilerDown]

Just posted by Reed Timmer: https://www.facebook.com/reedtimmerAccu/videos/pcb.10155729826329169/10155729823539169

[NatCigg]

I assume that's a backed up drain with a good head.  Oh man.

[Zimme83]

30 inches of rain, that is a lot of water..

Edit: Seems like this might be just as bad as Katrina, There is no way you can prepare yourself for those amount of water..

[ghi]

Interesting drone videos i just watched on other site; lots of damage ; eclipses are bad omen.

https://youtu.be/jUucaO6FfNA

https://youtu.be/bjQS5q2l41Q

https://youtu.be/XRdUV4WqnDE

https://youtu.be/2JuSrDF4bmo

https://youtu.be/rBn2_zC_9as

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4827474/Five-feared-dead-Hurricane-Harvey-floods-sweep-Texas.html

[pwooly]

Most of my family had to Evacuate under mandatory orders. They released the levees and dams from the Brazos river that runs near my neighborhood. I will be affected but no mandatory evacuation as of yet. Water in the front street has gone down so that's a good sign. Rain has not let up since Friday. Been off and on most of the time. Saturday night was probably the worst thunderstorms I've seen in my life. Absolutely no words can express what my city of Houston is going through. Just devastation. Godspeed everyone.

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[Skuzzy]

Be safe down there.  It certainly is a mess.

[ghi]

Houston man catches fish in home flooded by Hurricane Harvey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxbj4JcTfQM

Texas woman finds two alligators in her flooded backyard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdgspx_MgOY

[Drano]

I noticed the one where the is catching fish in his house that the lights are on. That means he still has electricity. The water is about an inch from the receptacles in that room. Can we say electrocution?

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