Posted on 08/27/2017 12:00:43 PM PDT by SMGFan
Since Friday, the National Weather Service has described the impacts Hurricane (and now Tropical Storm) Harvey in superlatives, with forecasts stating the flooding would be “catastrophic” and “life threatening.”
Now, nearly 50 inches of rain (4 feet!) are in the forecast as Harvey stalls over Houston, and the Weather Service is stretching to find the right way to describe the risk.
They’re calling the situation “unprecedented.”
Long-time weather journalists and meteorologists are saying this language is as dire as the National Weather Service gets.
Rains could last through the week. Five are reported dead already. More deaths may come. This situation is likely to get worse before it gets better.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
As I said. The operative word is “season”
Except for houses on very high hills, it seems like every house would be ruined.
I’m praying!
I’ve heard from Houston area family and friends today, mostly east and southeast of the city, and so far, so good.
One friend has an inch or two of water in her house but she knows that it’s not so bad compared to those who have several feet in their homes or who are in physical danger.
It’s going to be a tense week.
God Bless the folks and the animals in the areas affected.
I don’t place myself in any category and I especially REJECT your intolerance.
This is were a mindset like that leads.
https://mobile.twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/901910682030882816
I escaped to Tyler Thursday eve we had already been working on this old house for the past year. Now I’m just trying to see how much property damage we will have. Latest news is the water from bayou is about 4 house from my house. This houst sailed past Allison but Harvey is a new scenario. Our family says stay in Tyler scraping lead paint off old pine baseboards to get through this. No TV just cell phone my 21 year old still there
Thanks for posting that crap, thus revealing yourself to be a fool whose posts I need never read again.
Well, it is nappy, so it’s expected.
Webster's
Definition of rainThe plural form refers to "the rainy season", as does the definition provided by you in post 117. Which is what I said in post 110 - “rains” used to be a reference to “the rainy season”. That usage has been enlarged to include how this article uses it.
- a: water falling in drops condensed from vapor in the atmosphere
b: the descent of this water
c: water that has fallen as rain : rainwater- a: a fall of rain : rainstorm
b: rains plural : the rainy season- rainy weather
- a heavy fall • a rain of arrows
Dear lord, there are lefties that are using the Houston Flood Tweet thread to bash the President. Such hatred. I can not comprehend.
If you cannot type anything nice, PLEASE keep your fingers silent. Thanks!
The usage has been enlarged, as in the last 200-300 years?
If changes to language were all unacceptable we should all
still be speaking Old English.
Will keep all affected in my prayers.
Not surprised.
It is getting to the point that the Twitter has become increasingly impossible to read. An online sewer.
Prayers up.
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