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.
Mash image to find lots of satellite imagery links
Public Advisories
Severe Weather Watches and Warnings TX
NHC Discussions
NHC Local Hurricane Statements Corpus Christi
NHC Local Hurricane Statements Galveston
Buoy Data near Harvey
Thread I: Potentially Catastrophic Hurricane Harvey Approaches Texas Gulf Coast
Prolly pulled them right out of his closet this morning.
Water rescue of couple outside on top of pickup at SH 99 @ San Jacinto river bridge was caught on TXDOT camera.
Was just watching that on Fox 26...no photo yet though...
There are not enough cameras/photographers in the national meedia to cover such a huge area. Still, if any news people are still in Port Arthur, there should be some interesting footage in the next couple of days.
Fox Business reports Exxon refinery in Beaumont shutting down as Harvey approaches.
Gone for the day to work. Can follow the thread but no TV (though can catch major events on Houston TV streaming).
Most of the photos are coming from citizens not the media....just so you know.
Fantastic photo
Sure, but you know what huge egos the news characters have. I remember a CNN reporter about 8 years ago pretending to be stacking sandbags in a Fargo flood, and when she thought the filming stopped she dropped the sandbag routine. Unfortunately, the complete footage was shown on a comedy show.
That’s not something you see everyday.
Yikes,that’s where my friends were living when I visited them.
That guy would scare me to death.
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I bet she’s never been on a jet ski and certainly didn’t expect her first ride on one to launch from her foyer.
A lot of bacon is getting flushed out of the swamps.
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