Posted on 08/27/2017 7:33:37 PM PDT by davikkm
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS WE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE HARVEY BEFORE. I have gathered downloads and everything I feel one would need to stay informed about Harvey and EFFECTED AREAS. Our prayers are with everyone in the path of Harvey and the ongoing flooding. God bless all you and all the rescuers out there.
LIVE COVERAGE: DEADLY HOUSTON FLOODS – People Trapped, Rescues Ongoing
Live coverage of the Houston floods with Steve Lookner
To help victims of Hurricane Harvey, you can donate to the Red Cross here: http://www.redcross.org/hp/harvey2
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Why wouldn’t you expect an answer from me? You must really think I am sensitive to name calling, but I couldn’t care less. I long ago learned those that name call have nothing of substance to respond to. You were called out and now you are embarrassed and you respond with a childish, 7th grade taunt. You are exactly the kind of person I figured you out to be.
Well, we know the 50” of rain is the predicted amount through the duration of the storm. Who knows if it will be that much, but it will be close. I just checked the most recent forecast and they are forecasting 2 to 4 inches for the rest of the night and then the storm will start to move out sooner than they thought. Apparently, southeast Harris county has about 40” of rain, so perhaps the worst is over.
Then you have the smugness to claim you are above name-calling.
You take narcissism and self-delusion to new levels.
Congrats!
And that record has now been broken. And there is still potentially a foot of rain to come. On the countries fourth biggest city. But it’s just the storm, right?
What is your point? Are you saying this really isn’t that big a deal? The record for the largest storm total in the United States has now been broken. With maybe another foot of rain to calm. Does that satisfy you? Or is this just not that big a deal?
I guess then a bazillion inches of rain would mean it is a quadzillion year storm???
Speaking of Sandy, the Left is now yelling “TED CRUZ VOTED AGAINST SANDY RELIEF!!1!”
No, Ted Cruz voted against the massive amount of unrelated pork that was in the Sandy relief bill. It’s an important point that will get ignored at every turn, if we let it.
Still not unusual for hurricanes.
And Amelia did 48 inches in less time.
So please, tell me what is so magic about this one?
Does it have flying unicorns, or maybe sharks with lasers falling from it?
Harvey sets Texas rainfall record for tropical cyclone - NWS
by Reuters
Tuesday, 29 August 2017 15:31 GMT
http://news.trust.org/item/20170829153649-u7391
“The state’s previous record was established in 1978 by cyclone Amelia, in Medina, Texas, according to the NWS.”
In 1970, I lived through Hurricane Celia in Corpus Christi. We boarded the windows with plywood and many fasteners before the storm. There were no tornadoes as claimed by some. There were no downbursts. It was all sideways for several hours with a rumbling roar. We communicated with each other in the hallway of the house by yelling loudly into the ear of each person we were trying to talk to. The last radio station went out after an announcement that all of the anemometers were broken.
Some of the palms were uprooted. Others laid flat on the ground after the storm.
But the houses in my neighborhood were very well built for hurricanes except for the brick veneered ones (flattened), because there wasn’t as much developer/regulator corruption as in some other locations in the U.S. Many of the buildings in business areas were flattened or partially rubbled and gutted (many of them concrete block with steel roofs).
Power and phones were out for several weeks, but the National Guard was very helpful with supplies, medical assistance, armed against looters and on guard mount around the clock. There was no attempt at looting in neighborhoods like ours. In regards to business areas and a few other parts of town, police and National Guard spread the word that looters could be shot.
We rebuilt within about a year. People of our demographic (American for many generations, some originally from south Texas, others from the southern 2/3 of the Midwest), were more moral and hard working. Neighbors were very helpful; they were quite a contrast to many from some of the other parts of the country.
Corpus Christi was mostly evacuated before Celia, BTW. Not many of us stayed.
It’s not unusual for hurricanes to drop more than 50 inches of rain? Now you’ve lost all credibility. Yes, it’s quite unusual. Nothing magical about it. But this isnt and just another store.
And before you go claiming I’m a global warming believer, which I’m not, the reason the storm is so bad had nothing to do with anything other than bad circumstances and two high pressure fronts that kept it from going anywhere
They say the planet is billions of years old. Weather service has been in existence less than 100 years... and they are confident saying this ain’t never happened before...
Amelia did 48 inches in less yime.
So hardly “unprecedented”.
Try again.
Tell me, what is so magic about this one?
It is a hurricane, it is doing what hurricanes do.
Exactly.
Amelia did not drop 48 inches on the fourth biggest city in the country. And you used the word unprecedented, not me
Look, this is a highly unusual storm. That’s just a fact. Nothing magic about it, but I’m not aware of many hurricanes hanging around for five days. Are you?
I cant say I recall all the names and dates, but I can think of more than a few Hurricanes over the last 30 years that danced for many days up and down the gulf coast, making landfall, then retreating to the Gulf to gather up more energy and make landfall again. This is not new.
This hasn’t danced around. It’s basically stayed in the same spot.
Of course in your world, category four hurricane’s routinely roar ashore, stop, stay in the same place for five days, and drop 50 inches of rain on major metropolitan areas.
Just par for the course, right? Nothing unusual. Happens all the time.
And of course, you will respond. Because you clearly don’t know when to stop digging
Amelia dumoed 48 inches on Texas in 1978.
You fugure it out.
Again, nothing unprecedented.
Hurricanes happen.
And nothing magic about them.
Unusual in what way?
Again, sharks from the sky?
Explain how it is unusual.
I gave you one response. Stop digging??? You must’ve mistaken me for someone else or just feel like being grumpy. Have a good day.
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