OT: How are you in south Texas doing so far ?
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We live in Sienna Plantation which is in Missouri City...SW suburb of Houston. Moved here in March from Galveston. We lost power briefly over night but back on now. Today is simply a hunker down time as rain and wind bands hit followed by lulls in both. Expect our worst to come Sunday afternoon through Tuesday as Harvey turns towards Houston metro area. It'll have winds by then around 45 mph but copious amounts of rain. Apparent tornado hit our area last night but we are ok
We're in north east Houston - NE of Bush airport (Huffman). We're probably 50=60 miles further away from the storm than owenfield. We're experiencing the outer bands of rain. Worst part of this is, they are saying we are going to have heavy rain until Wed-Thurs. Some places between the west side of Houston, where owenfield is, and Corpus are expected to possibly get more than 30" of rain in the next 5 days. We have a good generator, but I sure hope we don't have to use it.
Probably a good idea to forget football allegiances at a time like this.
As compared to tornado damage, it looks like EF1-EF2 type damage from what I have seen for the worst Harvey damage. I am curious about area near and northeast of Port Aransas. I have not seen much damage survey on camera in that area. That is where the strongest measured winds were.
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I have personally experienced about the worst a tornado and a hurricane can offer and I'll take the tornado every time. On April 10th, 1979 I lived in W.F. and saw a tornado with three funnels in one cloud cut a mile wide 8 mile long swath through the southern half of the city. Over 50 killed, 8000 homes destroyed, as well as 10000 automobiles. Marshall law was declared and we had no power for at least 2 weeks. In Sept., 2008 Hurricane Ike came on shore on Galveston Island from the unprotected Galveston Bay side. My historic East End home had 3' of water in it...8' in my street. The difference in the 2 events is the aftermath. A tornado pretty much slicks everything off but the residual saltwater from a hurricane is terrible. It took us 16 months to rebuild our Galveston home. The only advantage to a hurricane is the ample warning time.
watched a tornado go buy and hit by the Berry Center. It's a nice stadium in Cy-Fair area. I was telling my watch that cloud form. They seen a tornado before. I'm tired of this rain.
Light wind and rain in Waco for 27 straight hours now. Just over an inch in my rain gauge. Waco is a little under 300 miles from Corpus Christi.
Yesterday saw Waco high of 75F and McClane Stadium Fieldturf temp at 75F. Fort Collins, CO high of 90F and Colorado State defeated Oregon State on Fieldturf temp of 117F in the Ram's new stadium.
Yesterday saw Waco high of 75F and McClane Stadium Fieldturf temp at 75F. Fort Collins, CO high of 90F and Colorado State defeated Oregon State on Fieldturf temp of 117F in the Ram's new stadium.
Some Waco area gas stations are running out of gasoline. Stripes and Veleros are loaded with E85. I have a flex fuel vehicle so I'm okay.
30 straight hours of rain has stopped.
30 straight hours of rain has stopped.
Red Cross announced that the flooded area in Texas is the size of Lake Michigan.
owenfield - you guys are under mandatory evac. Are you going to stick it out? If so, Godspeed.
I posted this on the other board and it is mainly Katy-centric. Others around town have it much worse than we do.
Poster is correct. We are just south of I-10 and Pin Oak (think the big mall). The water in the yard & street dropped to 25" and I was able to get the truck out to go check on some of our friends on the north and west side of downtown Katy. It's total devastation. All roads out of town are flooded & blocked. Our friends houses had between 3' & 6' of water but couldn't even get close to them. The boat storage unit where I have the boat and jet skis was hit by a tornado and is now under 24" of water keeping me from using them to help rescue.
The HS is packed absolutely full of national guard equipment and troops. Except for using boats to float door to door they can do nothing until the water goes down a few feet.
We have gone to our storage facility that did not get flooded and retrieved 6-boxes of men's & women's clothing to sort out. Will be dropping it at the church this afternoon.
The national media is not even coming close to the disaster this is and will become. It may take over 6-months to bail/dig out of this mess for hundreds of thousands of people. Stay dry.
Probably longer than that. Harvey has exceeded the rainfall record from Amelia (1978). I was only born in 1977, but even I'm familiar with Amelia as I heard it referenced quite often when I was young in the mid-80s.
Effects of Harvey are probably going to be felt for years.
I would be inclined to question the wording of that statement; perhaps they meant the area of the rain coming down was hundreds of miles wide and long; the flooded area itself is certainly large but not 105 miles x 310 miles...
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I have been watching it on the news and have heard reports of price gouging by some Hotels and Businesses. There are sorry people in this world.
Very sad to watch it all on TV. I lived in Deer Park just outside Houston years ago, so glad I am not still there.
Very sad to watch it all on TV. I lived in Deer Park just outside Houston years ago, so glad I am not still there.
I wish I could help but don't know what I can do but donate to American Red Cross. I lived in Roman Forest and Sharpstown in the early 70's so I really feel for all people in and near Houston. I hope for the best for you and yours.
My entire family of 13 nieces and nephews and two sisters-in-law, plus two close friends were all spared from property damage and physical harm. One sister-in-law in Cypress had the water rise to within 4 feet of her front door before receding. A friend lost power.....for 15 minutes.
I'm told by all of them that they are now in the clear.
I'm worn out from worrying and praying so much.
I'm told by all of them that they are now in the clear.
I'm worn out from worrying and praying so much.
I'm worn out from worrying and praying so much.[/QUOTE]
I know what you mean. That's all we can do unfortunately. Just hope for the best.
I know what you mean. That's all we can do unfortunately. Just hope for the best.
Our mandatory evacuation has been necessitated by the fear that the Brazos River will top or breach the Sienna levee. We followed the mandate and went to friends in Sugar land where there is no evacuation order. I went back to our home today and no water and still with power. The river gauge at the Richmond bridge has shown a drop from a crest of 59' to approximately 57'. Also, a levee downstream at Columbia Lakes was breached which has relieved some pressure upstream in Sienna. We will probably go home tomorrow even though the final crest is predicted for Thursday. This has been an incredible catastrophe. Metro Houston has about 6.5 million people and everyone has been effected in some way and this doesn't count the devastation in Rock Port, Tivoli, Port O'Connor, Bay City, Palacios, Victoria and on and on.The volunteer effort has been incredible.
I think that lake Michigan comparison is accurate. 53 counties with 46% of Texas's population have been effected. Around 11.5 million people in this area.
Oh no doubt this has been a catastrophic event and that millions of people have been affected. The miracle (so far) is the very low percentage of loss of life: it could have been tens of thousands if people wouldn't have 'bugged out'.
God bless Texas !
God bless Texas !
Actually, most deaths during Rita were because people "bugged out." Houstonians were told not to evacuate and it was the best advice. What has really helped is social media.
We r home. .Brazos crest now predicted at 56' so going down. We may have dodged the bullet.