Potentially Catastrophic Hurricane Harvey Approaches Texas Gulf Coast

NOAA/NHC ^ | 8/24/20017 | NOAA/NHC

[NautiNurse]

Potentially catastrophic Hurricane Harvey approaching Texas Gulf Coast.

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[dirtboy]

Deliberate double post to get this at the top of the next grouping:

[NautiNurse]

Make sure all of your girls get baths/showers hair washed before the storm (and before the koi become roommates). Laundry washed too.

[dirtboy]

[NautiNurse]

Very impressive storm.

[dirtboy]

Beyond impressive. Insane. And I live in the cone (but thankfully well inland).

[dirtboy]

Within 3 hours this system went from having a ragged, open eye to a fully wrapped with deep convection pinhole eye. That is never a good thing.

[Mears]

“Very impressive storm.”

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“Impressive storm” is an understatement,IMHO,it looks damned terrifying.

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[NautiNurse]

When did you move to TX?

[Figment]

Turn that trampoline upside down and put blocks on it

[dirtboy]

April. Helping my elderly mom take care of my elderly father.

[NautiNurse]

Very good of you to take care of your aging parents.

[Innovative]

That was in the title of the article, I did not make it up.

Realistically you don’t want to be anywhere near a hurricane or even a strong storm.

[dirtboy]

I am fortunate in that I can work from anywhere and I was already working from home just about every day in PA. And as it turns out, my boss is in the Austin office, so I can go in if I need anything.

[dirtboy]

Well, that's just insane, the current GFS run sends it to Dallas:

[rodguy911]

I wonder if this thing will shut down the oil refineries?

[dirtboy]

Not good from recon:

[NautiNurse]

I wonder if this thing will shut down the oil refineries?

Yes--rigs are evacuated along the coast, and there are multiple reports of refineries shutting down.

[NautiNurse]

I seem to recall hearing there are no real steering currents for the storm. This could cause the wide variations in model forecasts, and the lack of appreciable movement following landfall.

[dirtboy]

Yeah, after landfall, they really have no clue where it goes after that. Which is really scary. Texas has a sorry history of what stalled tropical systems can do.

[dirtboy]

Harvey is now a Cat 2:

12:00 AM CDT Fri Aug 25
Location: 25.5°N 94.9°W
Moving: NW at 10 mph
Min pressure: 967 mb
Max sustained: 100 mph