https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/901485581854748674
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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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This is not just any hurricane. It is one that will pour 50 inches of rain over a large area. That is more than a year of rain in 3 or 4 days. Large land areas are under water and tens of thousands of homes are lost and the water is still building. They are letting water out of a couple of dams to save them in areas already flooded. Over 100,000 people will be homeless and it will take 10 years to fully rebuild. A good part of Houston’s beltway is underwater and rising.
Florida has never seen anything like this including Andrew, so your grandparents fascinating hurricane stories are irrelevant for one, and second who cares about your grandparents. I don’t. Your blasé and callous attitude is noted and I just said a prayer for your location to receive 50 inches of rain so you can experience a storm. After all, it is only rain.
Sheesh. I hope and pray 50 inches of rain hits your house. I’m curious what you would call it. I would shrug my shoulders and just call it a storm.
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No area has ever received 50 inches of rain from one hurricane. This is not your typical hurricane.
My nephew lived there, leaving the first part of the year. The one-story apartment building he lived in is completely under water.
I have lived in Florida for a few decades. I know hurricanes.
One year we had a small hurricane that came up to the coast but didn’t come ashore. The local TV news crew had been hyping the Monster Storm for several days as it passed back and forth offshore then one night they did some visuals on the beach of driving rain and high wind only there wasn’t any so they did it with buckets of water and a big fan. I thought it looked fake on the screen and my daughter who was a producer at the station said it was, indeed, buckets and fan. By morning the Big Storm had just dissipated and the sun was bright in a blue sky. Every storm is the end of the world on the TV news until it isn’t and they don’t talk about that one anymore.
In Bangkok when the streets are flooded which happens just about every year, If you go out walking on the sidewalks you tote along a long stick which you use like a white cane because there are large holes that you would normally see and walk around. Without the stick you might step off the side of one of those holes and disappear forever.
Many years ago I was riding through, I think, Waco immediately after they got 6 inches of rain. The underpasses there go down under the flat overpasses and were all full of water. There were a couple of cars in at least one of them that were totally submerged.
Back when we got hurricanes every now and then, before all that AGW scared them off, my family never evacuated. We live on the highest ground in the area and it never floods. For some reason the wind is always milder right around this neighborhood. The tornadoes that come with those things all go somewhere else.
Camille was a tiny storm, more like a fifty mile wide tornado when it went across the coast.
In Nghe An province in Viet Nam the mountains come almost to the coast and the valleys are narrow and steep. A tropical storm dumps enough water on those valleys to wash them out. It goes to flood in a matter of an hour or so and a lot of people drown. An old military buddy of mine who went back to Nam permanently in 2006 was on a motorized sampan pulling people off roofs and out of trees one year when the valley floods filled up the narrow plain and inundated coastal towns.
The storm surge of Camille was horrific at 25 feet. That’s just scary. A buddy stationed at Keesler AFB said commercial dumpsters were going through the air like styrofoam cups.
“Camille, a Category 5, was the second most intense hurricane ever to hit the United States, with a minimum pressure of 909 millibars (26.84 inches). The final wind speed will never be known because all measuring devices were destroyed, but it is thought to exceed 200 mph.”
I remember Donna when I was a lad of 14 in Norfolk. It was a geographically huge storm. The reported-on-TV maximum wind speed was 115 mph because that is when the anemometers blew away. I question the wind speeds given for some of those storms of more than fifty years ago. I don’t think there was equipment capable of measuring those wind speeds.
I saw this last night and also watched a video of a preacher telling about eclipses and the significance of them in Biblical prophecy. There was a Jewish Rabbi, Rabbi Moshe ben Yisrael Benyamin in Safed in 1894 that made this prophecy about the eclipse we just had. While the major point of the prophecy seems to be related to North Korea, there was this..............
“The eclipse will also be accompanied by other phenomena, Rabbi Berger noted. “There will be storms and animals will die.” But the prophecy’s most significant prediction carries a literal prophetic implication.”
Coincidence?
1978, hurricane Amelia.
48 inches, Texas.
Harvey, 20 inches observed.
Yeah, that’s truly out of the ordinary.
Also see post 84.
And now they name every snowstorm that shows up.
Looks like Noah didn’t get the word in time to build a Houston Ark. That’s a lot of water!!
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