Hurricane Harvey Live Thread Part II

Various ^ | 8/26/2017 | Various

[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

[madison10]

The MSM and social media were all over Olsteen for not opening the doors. Most of the criticism probably came from those who had no clue what the criteria is for opening said doors.

Many here were judging Olsteen for not opening them.

[CedarDave]

Whirlpool could be the main gate, under water, all the way to a sandboil signifying a major blowout of the embankment. No way to tell until we get a wider view or more info.

Doubt if it's in the reservoir as the wider view in the Twitter video shows green banks on either side. Could be a controlled channel downstream from Barker but have no idea where water would end up. I'd be interested in how they got the picture as a boat would be dangerous; maybe a drone...

[CedarDave]

Whirlpool could be the main gate, under water, all the way to a sandboil signifying a major blowout of the embankment. No way to tell until we get a wider view or more info.

Doubt if it's in the reservoir as the wider view in the Twitter video shows green banks on either side. Could be a controlled channel downstream from Barker but have no idea where water would end up. I'd be interested in how they got the picture as a boat would be dangerous; maybe a drone...

[mrsmith]

Gotta LOL!
The KHOU weatherman just mentioned that Harvey is going to follow the Ohio valley and cause flash floods in my area of the Appalachians this weekend.
...I love irony.
(Nothing like the trouble it caused them of course)

[CedarDave]

Nice catch on Barker, Saturday. Been wondering about that.
No longer sure how to measure or quantify the effects of the spillover(s). The Piney Point flow meter was my first choice, but it’s up against deep ocean bay, and nothing is really flowing, it’s just sitting and spreading out. Volume of thruput must be off the charts, but they aren’t measuring that, and probably can’t, now.

Saturday may not be true anymore if they upped the Barker discharge to 16,000 cfs as Janetjanet998 reports from a Twitter post. That volume seems greatly over stated as earlier they were talking about a combined two-reservoir release of 8000 cfs. Depending on the inflow rate, that outflow volume may prevent any overtopping at all (just speculating, have no hard info).

[fatima]

I didn’t.It’s really important to wait and see.Beautuful church but they started to flood.

[topher]

There was an earlier story of looters taking TV's (I don't know post number), but part of that post was that looters were told to steal only from WHITE OWNERS...

Given that background, FoxNews has this story:

Foxnews: Reporter slammed on social media for alerting the police to 'looters'

FoxNews posted this under 'Entertainment'

[madison10]

Oh, I was not accusing you. Different thread last night.

[fatima]

(((( hugs)))).

[CedarDave]

I heard one report that some less reputable rescuers were returning to homes of those they rescued to loot. Hope the boats those scum use hit a submerged fire hydrant or other pointed object and sink.

[mrsmith]

Feel I ought to say I see they’re now saying the Brazos crest at Richmond will be 4 or 5 FEET higher and will be Thursday night.
Guess it has to do with where the final rain band was.

[topher]

Maybe drones should monitor some of these folks...

FEMA/Homeland Security might be able to do that...

[cherry]

I’m not sure I would leave my home....before the storm, I’d make sure my good stuff was high up, have enough water, etc, and protect my place..

[topher]

There is a web page to monitor predicted levels and current level of rivers. The color blue means MAJOR FLOOD stage:

http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=hgx

I assume the HGX stands for Houston/Galveston area...

[bonfire]

Yikes! My elderly inlaws are stranded at their church with four others. I’m betting my FIL has raided the Communion wine at this point. They live close to Pecan Grove in Richmond. Lord, what a week!

[CedarDave]

Texas storm precipitation totals >40 inches as of 9:00 p.m. CDT Tuesday. Full totals for TX and LA at the link at the bottom.

...TEXAS...
CEDAR BAYOU AT FM 1942               51.88                    
CLEAR CREEK AT I-45                  49.40                    
MARYS CREEK AT WINDING ROAD          49.20                    
DAYTON 0.2 E                         46.08                    
HORSEPEN CREEK AT BAY AREA BLVD      45.60                    
SANTA FE 0.7 S                       45.02                    
BERRY BAYOU AT FOREST OAKS BLVD      44.80                    
BERRY BAYOU AT NEVADA                44.44                    
LITTLE VINCE BAYOU AT BURKE RD       43.52                    
HOUSTON WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE      43.38                    
FRIENDSWOOD 2.5 NNE                  42.76                    
PASADENA 4.4 WNW                     42.58                    
LITTLE CEDAR BAYOU AT 8TH ST         42.32                    
ARMAND BAYOU AT GENOA-RED BLUFF RD   42.16                    
TURKEY CREEK AT FM 1959              42.12                    
WEBSTER 0.4 NW                       41.77                    
LEAGUE CITY 2.7 NE                   41.66                    
ARMAND BAYOU AT PASADENA LAKE        41.20                    
TAYLOR LAKE AT NASA ROAD 1           40.44        

http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/nfdscc1.html

[janetjanet998]

the 16000 is confirmed in a news conference....but not sure if that is combined for both

[janetjanet998]

very concerned about Jefferson county area in TX as a meso vortex is sitting and spinning there..

Beamont port author area..metro has 400,000 people
I have a storm total there of 40 inches at the airport

if they aren’t careful they will break the 51ish record from SE harris county

[fatima]

Thankyou for all you do.Can’t keep my eyes open Bump.

[janetjanet998]

per twitter and news reports

EXTREME flooding situation on going in Jefferson county texas...