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.
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Camille was a meteorlogical wonder. Pound for pound, still the single most powerful storm to ever hit the mainland United States.
People always associate Camille with The Gulf Coast, but it killed over 200 people in Virginia from floods.
I guess Waco is a tad west of Houston, but it’s almost due north.
The larger issue is much of Houston is barely above sea level and the water table is inches deep.
It’s literally a city built on a swamp.
Better than New Orleans, but mainly only because of better construction practices and giant manmade ravines.
that was just flat out bizarre what she did over Virginia. They are still not sure exactly what happened and why. 31 inches of rain in about 6 hours. The forecast called for cloudy with a “chance” of showers. Read a few books about that night. Just incredible.
It’s actually not that bad.
Most subdivisions are built high up. Basically they build giant artificial rivers and then use the dirt to raise the level of subdivisions.
Excepting catastrophic storms, most normal areas are fine.
People always associate Camille with The Gulf Coast, but it killed over 200 people in Virginia from floods.
Point well said !
Hurricanes occasionally hit Hartford, Conn. and less often Hampshire, Ill. Hereford, Texas, located west of the hurricane belt, is the safest of these cities from hurricanes, but it occasionally gets tornadoes.
Lamar County, (NE) Texas, checking in.
Raining, breezy, not too bad yet.
Still have power and internet, subject to change as the epicenter gets closer.
Cows are getting wet.
“Homes in Houston’s lower-income northeast have flooded...”
Racist hurricane! Middle-income homes never flood. Except for the thousands that do.
“— Alan Jay Lerner”
With Frederick Loewe.
Houston > Chicago.
Texas > Illinois.
You want proof, CC?
Hurricane Camille was a powerful, deadly and destructive Category 5 major hurricane which became the second most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the United States (behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane) and is one of just four Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the U.S.
Drownded or buildings collapsed?
Photos of storm surge coming ashore were legend.
“I would pick NV or UT”
Sorry, No Vacancy. Check down the road in Nebraska.
“Camille ... killed over 200 people in Virginia from floods.”
In Nelson County, alone, 111 people were killed in the storm.
https://blueridgecountry.com/archive/favorites/the-storm-that-swallowed-a-county/
key word is “mainland”. The Labor Day storm struck the Florida Keys.
“Homes in Houston’s lower-income northeast have flooded”
Here we go...lots of screaming about “environmental justice” to commence in 3...2...1!
Now they can all move back to New Orleans.
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