Tropical storm / Hurricane Harvey

[djetok]

I hope all our friends in the way of the storm are making preparations and stay safe.

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

In my experience in years and storms gone by when a storm is on that side of the gulf the water gets nuts on our side of the gulf so it will probably be very bad conditions along the coast as far as waves are concerned when they crash into the beach, so I may have to go out and monitor them to make sure they are not too big to JUMP .

 

[captras]

Houston is on the north side....not good....and it may circle around and come up the coast and hit Houston/Galveston direct. They are saying possibly 25 inches of rain! And my boat is 100 miles north of here

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

It is already effecting our weather here all the storms that usually come from the gulf and go east to the Atlantic are now being pulled fr0om the Atlantic to the gulf so our evening weather patterns are now backward.

 

[djetok]

Cat 4 now

 

[captras]

Areas of Houston have had almost 30" of rain in Houston. Nearly every freeway is closed at some point. Some 16 foot underpasses are completely flooded. Water entering the 2nd story of many homes. This is not in just an isolated area, it is the entire metroplex. 11 MILLION people under an EMERGENCY flood warning. And the BAD news....we are looking at 2-3 more days of this!

 

[Julian]

Hope you are your house are high and dry?

 

[djetok]

Areas of Houston have had almost 30" of rain in Houston. Nearly every freeway is closed at some point. Some 16 foot underpasses are completely flooded. Water entering the 2nd story of many homes. This is not in just an isolated area, it is the entire metroplex. 11 MILLION people under an EMERGENCY flood warning. And the BAD news....we are looking at 2-3 more days of this!

Wow man that's a lot of water

 

[captras]

Hope you are your house are high and dry?

So far we are lucky...they estimate 310 BILLION gallons of rain have fallen JUST in Harris County!

 

[captras]

Wow man that's a lot of water

They estimate 310 billion gallons just in Harris County!

 

[djetok]

They estimate 310 billion gallons just in Harris County!

Wow

 

[Tobes]

Still waiting for pictures of someone boating in the street. I see outboards, come on!

 

[Speedling]

I have family in san antonio and dallas. Dallas high and dry so far. San antonio not terrible but he has to travel into the storm to do something with his milk factory something or others.

 

[Speedling]

They said that in texas at least where they are people have flooding but it's different because most of these homes don't even have basements so it's not like it just floods a basement. They don't have all the big ditches to channel water etc.

 

[elcue]

My local NBC had people on a pontoon rescuing families stuck in the flood.

 

[GTBRMC]

I have a cousin that lives in an apartment near Rice University in Houston. She is stranded in her building...

Water rose quickly Sunday morning. Parking lot was dry at 5:00 am, her car was completely swamped by 6:30 am.

She lives on 2nd floor and is dry with power & water so far. 1st floor of building is partially flooded, but level has not changed since about noon.

Hoping for the best for all peeps affected.

 

[Scottintexas]

This is the river forecast near my mom's house,
In 1994 (the record it was at 67 ft over,) and the water was about 6" deep in the second story,

This picture is from last years flood at 62 ft,
Lucky at 81 yrs old she did move very fast on remodeling anything in the first floor so most of that was still exposed studs and big stuff that was easy to move out,

 

[tdonoughue]

Saw a See Doo jetboat on the news doing rescues down the streets. Don't know how he didn't mess up his gellcoat. Unless he did. Anyway, absolutely wild pictures.

(for the record--we are all fine and dry still. backup generator and highest house in the neighborhood...)

 

[elcue]

Stay safe guys. This giving me flashbacks of storm sandy. Hopefully government doesn't delay funds and aid like they did to us and you get rebuilt better and fast. All over our newspapers is how Ted Cruz and a Texas senator voted against giving us money for Sandy. Peoples livelihood are at stake hope political bullshit doesn't come into play.

 

[Scottintexas]

after a quick google search it appears that Cruz originally voted for a senate version for a second round of Sandy relief but against the House's revised version because it had funding for additional "items" that were not involved with Sandy relief.

it seems this is the normal Washington game of put a good idea out there and then attach as much pork to it as you can,

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/wea...akers-now-bracing-harvey-voted-sandy-spending