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 ...
Also, aren't you familiar with the "Africa" song by Toto? As in "I bless the rains down in Africa (There's nothing that a hundred men or more can do)"?
Katy is getting a good deal of flooding in Cinco Ranch and Seven Meadows. We’re north of I-10 so we are higher.
So far so good.
How many storms of the century can there be in one century? In one decade, even?
The term “unprecedented flooding” came from the National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?epac#Harvey
One of my boys is in Houson. First thing he did was park in the highest spot in his apartments garage.
I told him “Park high, wade low” by analogy to the conditioning saying, “Train high, sleep low.”
Good luck to you! Stay safe.
Rooves, ruffs... it’s madness I tell you madness.
Thus, their history is in their sheltered snowflake lifetime.
This is going to be so Trump’s fault, it will be unprecedented.
Thanks.
Not surprised the weather service sinks to this sort of non-professionalism.
I’m in San Antonio for my niece’s graduation from USAF basic training. There has been just light rain and moderate wind the past few days. Unfortunately, they have restricted all new airmen to base because of the uncertainty. All these airmen and their families are crammed into the BX complex and movie theater because there is nothing else to do. About an hour wait in line at Starbucks yesterday AM. Still better than being in Houston right now. P.S. Why do they have the anti-American CNN on the tv at the on base Burger King???
Greatest hurricane photo ever.
Somehow I think Texas will adjudicate themselves far better than their NOLA neighbors.
LMAO. The upside-down bottle in his back pocket turned a great photo into an absolute iconic classic.
If we ever get around to putting together a list of iconic FR characters, Looter Guy will be fighting it out with Helen Thomas, that Simpsons kid and more for spots in the top five.
Don’t forget Tourist Guy. LOL.
Looking around, I see the highest actual total rainfall measured (so far) is 27 inches, NE of Houston!
The entire Texas coast for miles inland is a "Floodplain"FLOOD
PLAIN
It became a "FLOODPLAIN" because it regularly floods over geological time. And it floods because of tropical storms including hurricanes.
The Galveston Flood hurricane of 1900 killed between 6 and 12,000 people and wasted Galveston. is that precedent enough? how about over 1200 in Katrina which flooded out New Orleans.
Too fact based for the MSM, they want everything to be about now and we found it, and you must believe us.
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