One, to a few hours old:
ACE predicting inundation tonight, between Memorial Drive and Briarforest Drive, west of Highway 8, a 10 plus square mile heavily residential and light commercial area.
Basically one mile either side of Buffalo Bayou, from Barker embankment to Highway 8. For now, a narrower corridor east of Highway 8 is also at risk tonight. He hopes the Bayou stretch from Barker to Highway 8 is at crest, but...it is rising slowly, against forecasts, and they don’t know why.
Further, combined controlled plus uncontrolled releases are now backing water up north-south tributaries feeding Buffalo Bayou just west of Highway 8. This will likely work its way north between Highway 8 and Addick. Further, spillover from Addick north end is flowing south, along Rummel Creek and tributories west of it, towards the backed up Bayou spread northward,along those same creeks.
Some of the Addick spillover has found its way further east than expected, thru below ground drainage systems, into a drainage other than Buffalo Bayou (White Oak Bayou.)
He states that up to 100,000 homes affected, from these localized situations, would not surprise him. New briefing expected,at 7:30 PM local.
well that was rather interesting (in a bad way). this will go on for day and weeks even if they don’t get another drop of rain
Man oh man. Yeah, I think the 100,000 may be about right. But then there’s all the other towns.
I was just watching one of the live helicopter/drone trips around West Houston. On one part of hughway where water is receding the mud left on the road was easily 2-3 ft. Solid. What a mess.
Meanwhile, reading the comments was discouraging. There is a level of ignorance about basic science that’s unbelievable. I mean 7th grade stuff. How could 30 inches of rain make it flood? Why didn’t they make it go a different direction? That sort of thing...