Posted on 08/26/2017 4:39:50 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport TX about 10:00PM CDT Friday night. Top sustained winds were 130mph. Rockport High School sustained heavy damage when a portion of the roof collapsed. A senior housing complex collapsed. The Rockport courthouse sustained major damage with “a cargo trailer halfway in the building.” Multiple tornadoes reported in the Houston/Galveston areas. There are reports of scattered structural fires and a shooting was reported in Corpus Christi. Residents along the San Bernard River were advised to evacuate and most TX Gulf coast counties are under flash flood watches.
Many locations are under a boil-water notice. Power outages are widespread. President Donald Trump promptly granted a Disaster Declaration to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s request. More than 700 members of the Texas Army and Air National Guards, Texas State Guard and the Texas Military Department have been activated and are positioning themselves throughout the state ahead of Hurricane Harvey and its anticipated landfall later this week. Ahead of the storm, FEMA sent supplies from its warehouse in Fort Worth to a staging point at Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio.
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Thread I: Potentially Catastrophic Hurricane Harvey Approaches Texas Gulf Coast
It’s just not moving. Sounds like a fire hose on the side of the house. There is not a word to describe this awful noise.
:) They they are down to 500 calls.Hate to be 499.
How much would you say you got? I’d say 8” here in Liberty Hill, not counting the 2-3” from the earlier non- Harvey rain. I think he’s done with us but I have a crowd begging to differ.
If anything that band is stationary while filling out back to the west. Very very bad.
We only got 3-4 inches here in Georgetown. Nice, steady two-day soaker. And not much more in the forecast now that Harvey is supposed to track south and then NNE.
Here’s a good one for you - the two places my parents lived before moving to Georgetown? Rockport and Houston.
Of course.... are y’all in Sun City?
Yep.
:-)
Houston just got nailed. And the upstream area has to be at catastrophic flooding. Fairly soon if you do not have a boat you are not going anywhere.
Bookmark. Thanks for the map.
We should meet someday and do a *real* tour of Southwestern Univ. For only being from 30mi away, I am woefully ignorant Williamson County. I really just want to go home to Lago, but I’m stuck here for at least a few months: may as well learn it.
My cousin in Richmond has water in her house. She’s never flooded before.
Sounds like a plan. Freepmail me when you get a chance.
Except some fool with too much time on their hands photoshopped in all the water and floating debris.
Tell that to the 15 ladies rescued 11 of which were hospitalized.
Where are the rescue photos?
Dang! Thats just south of the woodlands.
My Family & I are praying for her and everyone! Another 2 days of rain to go!
Does she have a friend or friends with boats that can get them north and west?
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