Posted on 08/24/2017 8:44:29 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Potentially catastrophic Hurricane Harvey approaching Texas Gulf Coast.
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Thank You!
Eastern Long Island got SLAMMED in 1938.
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That is an incredible story.
I can only imagine how frightening, at that age especially.
If you’re heading out, tonight, be safe!!
Keep us posted on roadways, etc.
Please keep us updated when you can.
Every day the bullzdozer guy would come in and give a body count of how many bodies they found that day. Bodies were shipped out of the zone by tractor trailers with cold storage,no telling where they went. the death toll was in the low thousands not the 69 they report.
Took the NWS years to even claim Andrew was a cat.5 beware of NWS lies,they can't help themselves.
of course the new media,us,keeps them a lot straighter than they ever were before.
Doing your usual stellar job I see,we can’t thank you enough.
Wow—my mother used to tell stories about the 1938 Long Island Express. Her brother took her down to the bay and there were rooftops, large kitchen appliances floating in the water.
You are such a dear! Can’t say I’ll be sorry to miss Harvey. Our little tease with TS Emily a few weeks ago was enough for my silly season.
Current projections seem to focus on a cat-3 or low end cat-4 hurricane slowly making landfall just northeast of Corpus Christi towards Port Lavaca TX. But despite the risks associated with wind and storm surge, widespread heavy rain for several days (Friday to middle of next week) over much of southeast TX will be the main story. All that flat land being subjected to relentless heavy rain will create widespread flooding. People would be smart to evacuate ahead of orders, to avoid last-minute gridlock. Would go further inland than a San Antonio-Waco-Shreveport line, the heavy rain will spread a considerable distance inland eventually. And the Sunday to Thursday evolution of Harvey remains very unpredictable with a slow, meandering storm that could keep regenerating heavy rain by staying near the Gulf coast (it would be unlikely to remain much above cat-1 for very long but heavy rains will continue and the heaviest could be 50-100 miles inland rather than along the coast as the system rotates).
I was on a tour in the UK when Andrew struck.
There were 8 people in our tour group from South Florida and they were basket cases-——calling home frequently——and worrying.
Was that the storm that had problems with rooves that had been poorly constructed——and blew off???
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even if its a CAT 4 at landfall the big news will be all the rain an flooding for days/a week
I went back and looked at the major flood events in TX history....
most had isolated areas of 15-20 inches.....but nothing like the widespread stuff the models are showing
plus its been rather wet this year too
“Her brother took her down to the bay -——”
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Narragansett? RI took the brunt of it.
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Great South Bay—Long Island
Do you think you'll be able to stay online and give FReeper updates?
what’s with the black triangle path?
“Great South Bay—Long Island”
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Thanks,beautiful area-——I love Long Island-—phenomenal beaches.
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125mph now officially
some models now bring it up a little higher to high CAT 3
Impressive graphic. Storm looks like it is winding up for the big, slow pitch.
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