Posted on 08/27/2017 7:33:37 PM PDT by davikkm
This is why so many of us were laughing about it before it even hit shore. They have become the boy who cried wolf.
Harvey hasn't topped 18 inches yet, but you seem quite self-assured that it will be 50 inches, exactly, and that the 40 or 42 or 44 in other places is absolutely nothing like the 50 that isolated areas in Texas haven't received yet and most will never receive.... and then you note others decrying imaginary numbers immediately afterwards. Amazing.
We had an earthquake in Seattle about 20 years ago that toppled one old brick building in the Pioneer Square area.
If you watched the national news you would have thought half the city fell down. They would keep showing pictures of that particular building and the car next to it covered by bricks in such a way as to give the impression that they were pictures of lots of different buildings in different areas.
My particular building, a Boeing building just south of Renton, was built on reclaimed swamp in the Green River Valley area and it actually suffered pretty heavy damage, but it looked fine from the outside. But those areas become like quicksand in an earthquack.
And the news does the same thing in stories like this. They cover the “bad” areas and, truth be told, they are often “bad” because they were not designed to handle this sort of stuff.
When I buy my houses, I intentionally avoid flood plane areas. It is quite intentional. My farm in KY is two knobs and two hollers. My home is on one of the knobs. It will never flood.
Sorry, most of Harris County did hit 18 inches as of 8pm last night, and isolated pockets in the southeast corner of the county had hit 21 inches.... still nothing near 50 inches yet.
More like a bass fishing tournament....
Regarding my comment, “You lived through 50 inches of rain in each of all of those places,”...
I meant to say 50 inches within a few days (if that happens as predicted). Galveston County received 22 inches in one day and 26 inches within 48 hours. Corpus Christi also received 20 inches by Saturday afternoon. Don’t know what C.C. received since then. If Houston gets 40 inches within a week, that will be monstrous.
I once saw over 80 inches in a year. Saw an inch every 5 minutes one a storm at least once. But even there, never as much as 20 inches within a couple of days.
And yes, weather patterns have changed radically. The trend of extreme fluctuations is obvious. But no, I don’t subscribe to any warming trend being caused by mankind. It’s all natural and something that happens once in a great while.
Based on NWS Precipitation Maps, most of the Houston metro area has received >20”.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge2/RFC_Precip/
Oh, please. As usual they’re hyping the storm to get viewers. How many times do they have to cry, “Wolf!” before they realize we’re laughing at them?
Wonder how many of the Cajun navy are Trump supporters v Shillary supporters?
They call it “smart growth”.
sure, its directly related to Trump pulling out of the Paris Agreement,, and that made the climate angry ..
What do you expect from a channel that names every storm including winter storms.
See how hard it is to predict the weather?
Hurricane Floyd in 1999 dropped 17” of rain on eastern North Carolina in 24 hours. It also caused significant, widespread flooding. So not necessarily “unprecedented”. That doesn’t diminish the disaster going on in east Texas, but hardly the first time something like this has happened.
And that Tsunami that hit Asia about 10 years ago? Just a big wave, right?
No, I'd call it a tsunami. What would you and the other leftists/exaggerators call it? The MOST GINORMOUS MAN-MADE CLIMATE-CAUSED WAVE IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!!!
Here due north in Kansas the weather has been strange. Mostly dead calm. Yesterday sudden intense downpour but still not windy.
Dead calm for days. Kansas is windy pretty much all the time. This morning heavy fog.
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