[Teacher317]

You lived through 50 inches of rain in each of all of those places? Wow! I'm impressed!

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.

[Teacher317]

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.

[FreedomPoster]

Based on NWS Precipitation Maps, most of the Houston metro area has received >20”.

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ridge2/RFC_Precip/

http://tinyurl.com/y8df8nft

[familyop]

"...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..."

Some other places in the world have received far more rain within various time frames, but let's get back to the topic of the post above this thread. When has the Texas Gulf Coast received 20 inches within two days or 40 inches within a week?

Really, if we're discussing a fluctuation in precipitation, why should we compare the Texas Gulf Coast to places far from there?

[cincinnati65]

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.