Posted on 08/26/2017 4:39:50 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport TX about 10:00PM CDT Friday night. Top sustained winds were 130mph. Rockport High School sustained heavy damage when a portion of the roof collapsed. A senior housing complex collapsed. The Rockport courthouse sustained major damage with “a cargo trailer halfway in the building.” Multiple tornadoes reported in the Houston/Galveston areas. There are reports of scattered structural fires and a shooting was reported in Corpus Christi. Residents along the San Bernard River were advised to evacuate and most TX Gulf coast counties are under flash flood watches.
Many locations are under a boil-water notice. Power outages are widespread. President Donald Trump promptly granted a Disaster Declaration to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s request. More than 700 members of the Texas Army and Air National Guards, Texas State Guard and the Texas Military Department have been activated and are positioning themselves throughout the state ahead of Hurricane Harvey and its anticipated landfall later this week. Ahead of the storm, FEMA sent supplies from its warehouse in Fort Worth to a staging point at Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio.
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Public Advisories
Severe Weather Watches and Warnings TX
NHC Discussions
NHC Local Hurricane Statements Corpus Christi
NHC Local Hurricane Statements Galveston
Buoy Data near Harvey
Thread I: Potentially Catastrophic Hurricane Harvey Approaches Texas Gulf Coast
Earlier remote report from KHOU showed several high-wheeled military trucks in a small convoy passing the reporter who was under shelter at a gas station.
KHOU reporter talking to stranded drivers — all were on their way home after the fight.
Those are incredible pictures.
Has Harvey moved at all in past 24 hours ? Looks like just slight jogs. So we are at the 24 hour no significant movement mark now ?
Harris Country waters now exceed Allisons.....
Alert!.....Roads in Houston are rivers....every freeway is closed....people up on roofs and stuck on freeways...traffic can’t move for the water...the ferocity of this storm is preventing rescues though national guard etc. are there....
Harvey is stationary again. It was drifting at 2mph for a few hours earlier.
WaPo has some interesting pix. And that's what they're reporting. Harvey Stationary So all that trapped water is going to be coming straight down.
Side street...
“Take an axe...”
Right.
And pray to God that the structure of your roof is wimpy as Hell.
In rising water, you could EASILY die before you could hack your way out through 3/4” plywood and a layer of composition tile roofing with a hand axe. Ya might could make a hold big enough to breathe through, but big enough to crawl out through?? I’m not givin’ good odds on that proposition.
Pearland, Texas, received 9.92 inches in just 90 minutes late Saturday night
Thousands of houses now taking on water....
That cannot happen. Say it ain’t so Joe. A 5 day total stall. More than a foot of rain each day ?
The problem with that was that all sorts of critters wanted to share the roof with them -- such as snakes...
Think it is saver on roof. Winds are tropical now. And you are wet either way.
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