Posted on 07/08/2024 1:06:34 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Tropical Storm Beryl is making a slow, ruinous passage out of Houston, where it is flooding highways and knocking out power lines.
As of 3 p.m. local time Monday, as the eye of the storm moved over the western Houston suburbs, more than 2.7 million Texans were without power, according to tracking site PowerOutage.us.
Much of the already flood-prone city has experienced 5 to 8 inches of rain, with some particularly unlucky neighborhoods experiencing more than 10, according to Harris County’s Flood Warning System.
Homes in Houston’s lower-income northeast have flooded, one nonprofit told The Hill, as have many of the city’s major freeways. One man was rescued from the cab of his truck as the water rose along Highway 288. Winds ripped trees from the ground, roots and all.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Media sensationalism at its finest.
I lived there for a short while once.
A lot of the ground in many places in the Houston area has a lot of clay content. Clay can absorb a lot of water, but not quickly. We’d watch as a major storm was making the street into a river with the water coming up and over the curb. Then once the heaviest part of the rain subsided, the water ould begin to recede. People on highways around Houston during such storms just pull to the side, let the rain finish, watch the water gradually recede and then join the others getting back on the road.
Of cousre any where in the country with these big storms there will be idiot drivers who will think “their car” can make it through some deep “puddle” (usually where the road dips down), instead of just wating safely for better conditions to arrive. No. Unlike the “suckers” just sitting there, they’re not going to let a deep puddle hold them up.
Maybe it is not has bad as I think
I’m in DFW and don’t think we’ll see a bit of anything out of this midget. Just to our east but it’s a pretty small circulation.
you poach in the summer and if it showers, city floods.
Homeowners insurance must be insane
best have flood insurance too. I lived there in 83 in an apartment, so I never knew those “joys”
Our power flickered and we had 1/2 an inch water in our living room. The internet is still out except for the cellular phone
“Maybe it is not has bad as I think.”
The humdity in Houston this time of year is horrible, storm or no storm.
If I were to live in Texas I’d likely live a good ways north and west of Houston - further from the Gulf. Sometimes I think I’d like to look at Waco. A sister said she heard waco has not so good local drinking water. That’s not an issue for me as I have been using nothing but bottled water for decades in my area of New Jersey.
My daughter lost power and the fence but they’re holding up pretty well and had birthday for one of the kids with candle lights
My sincerest condolances.
I would pick NV or UT
“I would pick NV or UT”
Or Prescott AZ. Higher altitude, cooler than Phoenix and not the massive numbers as Phoenix/Chandler/Scottsdale either.
Or Coeur d’Alene Idaho.
I lived in Houston six years. It is close enough to the coast to get all the rain, but not close enough to the coast for the coastal winds to drive the allergens out of the air. Miserable.
We were flying out of Dallas Love Field and were delayed because of the Houston storms. But somehow we spent a week in Texas and that was the only problem we had, 15 minute delay.
Good picks!
Maybe it is not has bad as I think.
Cat.1 is of course minimal....TX dodged a bullet this round.
For all the folks, who had property damage or loss of life for the duration of this storm, God bless them.
Former “rider of the storms” Betsy, Camille, Katrina....
“A lot of the ground in many places in the Houston area has a lot of clay content.”
Worse, and as in all big cities, all the concrete on the ground, road, buildings, etc. Water has no place to go but rise up.
No, it wasnt.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.