Well, there was this one time...
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 ...
Yeh Houston is one spread out wide city of urban sprawl. Lotta cement and roadways down there. An immense amount of water runoff-— or lack thereof in this scenario.
Bastardi has been just about balls on accurate since before landfall. Even then he was predicting the loop and massive dirty side rain. At the time he and the Euro model both were predicting as much as 62.5 inches in places on the W side of Houston.
Bastardi looks to be close on this one all the way around.
That would imply continuous rainfall which will not be the case in Houston as rain bands pass over with long breaks between. Harvey may even go back out to sea and then return.
Here in my climate we get snow. If it is going to snow on and off all week we say 'snow flurries are forecast for the week', not 'it will snow all week'.
All the local weather people here in Houston were predicting the worst case scenario from the get-go (Wednesday at least). I was hoping they were just being alarmists, but sadly, they were all accurate.
Sodom and Gomorrah. I understand that you are an atheist but in the Bible, God destroyed sinful cities. You have to read the Bible and you will see that your post is absurd.
About a dozen states have sent in choppers for rescue.
Many thanks to those states. May God bless the pilots and rescued.
Nope. Real. A nursing home in Dickenson. The only way they could figure out how to get help was send the pic over social media. 11 of the 15 women pictured are now hospitalized but all were rescued.
You are abhorrent. There are people dying, conservatives as well as liberals not that it matters. You are a disgrace.
Actually, I’m a God fearing man and I was brought up to help those who I may disagree with. As humans, that IS the Godly thing to do! You sir will find that out someday.
He/she may be a bit over the line however, have you read the comments some are posting from twitter? They’re pretty abhorrent. Some will say they are praying for folks and lots of responses, “no need to pray, God won’t help”, or “there is no God”, saying bad things about Trump “just stay there, Donalds going to help you”, lots of comments about quit praying and start paying attention to climate change - more of this is going to happen. They are certainly very liberal - there is no question about that. Just makes me shake my head and pray for these people who do not believe in God.
Prayers from Pa. Wish the water in Houston could find their way up to Missoula..
Well, there was this one time...
Snows could last through the week
or
Snow could last through the week
I’ve never heard the first.
Poor behavior on other’s part does not make what is tolerated on this site OK. I expect it from liberals, I would not have imagined such would be tolerated here.
Close to putting a roof over some large percentage of 7,000 square miles. In a rain like this though any ground, covered or not, will get saturated and then the water just has to run off.
No matter if people lived in the Houston area or not it would flood under these conditions though the presence of people and their development has made it worse and sooner. The fact of the matter is that the Gulf Coast Plain is just a flood zone.
Some of the people in the Houston are have been flooded year after year after year. I built our home there on high ground and it will remain on high ground and dry for a long time. With each rain over the last 23 years I told my wife if we got wet people would be coming by in an ark. We paid a high price for being high and dry in my commute to work but I considered it was worth it. There just aren’t that many high places in the Galveston Basin unless you start heading NW.
I’m sure happy I got my work done there and got out. It is just a really sorry place to live. I feel really fortunate to have gotten out of there.
Doing our best. Thanks and God bless you.
Gee, Did they forget Katrina?
Then wave a sheet or something, mark where they are. Some can't go back down to get anything and probably shouldn't.
It's horrible to think about anybody trapped on a roof waiting for help, falling off, not being seen by choppers. I can't think of how they can secure themselves. But people being advissed the above who can, definitely should get on the roof if they can and not endanger other people with them.
North of I-10 in the Katy area.
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