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Post by librarylady on Aug 26, 2017 13:58:18 GMT
You can identify some of the smaller towns that are being mentioned in the news. Someone created it to show why the folks in Dallas are safe.  |
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Post by librarylady on Aug 26, 2017 13:58:56 GMT
The storm eye is just north of Victoria this morning.
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Post by Peamac on Aug 26, 2017 14:48:46 GMT
Thanks, librarylady! DD1 will be getting married and moving to San Antonio in a few months- I need to study up on Texas geography! |
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Post by SweetieBugs on Aug 26, 2017 15:43:16 GMT
So the storm is west of Houston. Will Houston have any fall out from it?
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Post by utmr on Aug 26, 2017 15:45:50 GMT
So the storm is west of Houston. Will Houston have any fall out from it? Rain. Lots and lots of rain. Possibly feet of rain. Plus all the rain inland has to drain out to the gulf. SE TX is just getting started with this. Hugs and warm thoughts to Rockport and the Coastal Bend this morning. It's going to be a rough ride for all of coastal Texas for a while. |
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Post by cadoodlebug on Aug 26, 2017 16:05:04 GMT
As of yesterday they were predicting major flooding in Houston. The city isn't equipped to handle that much rain in a short period of time especially if Harvey stalls over the area.
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Post by librarylady on Aug 26, 2017 16:06:20 GMT
So the storm is west of Houston. Will Houston have any fall out from it? One weather folk thought of the track shows it looping back to Houston in 2-3 days. Either way, Houston is getting rain, rain and more rain. The bayous in Houston will surely flood. |
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Post by Darcy Collins on Aug 26, 2017 16:08:11 GMT
So the storm is west of Houston. Will Houston have any fall out from it? There will be flooding in Houston no question - they're projecting 2 feet of rain. The big question is how long the storm stalls over Texas. We won't see the full fall out for several days. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2017 16:09:00 GMT
it's hard for people who have never been to Texas to comprehend just how big it is and that most of Texas is no where near the storm. It's sunny and beautiful here 350 miles from Corpus in West Texas.
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Post by annaintx on Aug 26, 2017 16:16:01 GMT
Thanks, librarylady ! DD1 will be getting married and moving to San Antonio in a few months- I need to study up on Texas geography! Welcome (almost) to San Antonio!! Good food here, bad traffic, LOL! |
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Aug 26, 2017 16:39:31 GMT
So the storm is west of Houston. Will Houston have any fall out from it? There will be flooding in Houston no question - they're projecting 2 feet of rain. The big question is how long the storm stalls over Texas. We won't see the full fall out for several days. It really depends on where you are located in Houston. We have lucked out and been between the bands for nearly the entire storm. So far we have gotten 2.5" and a few breezes. A few miles to the west and to the east they are being hammered. People don't realize how enormous Houston is and that what one area gets, others may not. |
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Post by leftturnonly on Aug 26, 2017 16:53:39 GMT
You can identify some of the smaller towns that are being mentioned in the news. Someone created it to show why the folks in Dallas are safe. Not to dispute your OP, but to add more info... Most storms, which include tropical storms as well as hurricanes, continue to move inland once they make landfall. All along the path the storm takes may face so much wind and rain that they can become imperiled. This particular storm is historically noteworthy because it is hanging on the coast and not proceeding inland as quickly as we normally see. If it had continued inland after making landfall, Dallas could very well be facing severe weather, possibly at Tropical Storm strength. Harvey is *that* big. |
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Post by leftturnonly on Aug 26, 2017 17:02:58 GMT
There will be flooding in Houston no question - they're projecting 2 feet of rain. The big question is how long the storm stalls over Texas. We won't see the full fall out for several days. It really depends on where you are located in Houston. We have lucked out and been between the bands for nearly the entire storm. So far we have gotten 2.5" and a few breezes. A few miles to the west and to the east they are being hammered. People don't realize how enormous Houston is and that what one area gets, others may not. Very true. Houston has swallowed whole towns as if it were PacMan. One of those things you probably have to see to really understand. The problem Houston on the whole is going to have is that the rain has really only just begun. Because the storm is going to hang on the coast, it will continue to rain at these high levels for the next few days - I've even seen projections of rain until the end of NEXT week. Houston is flat and low lying. The ground is clay and much of it is paved. Once the bayous and creeks are flooded, there is no place for the water to go so it builds up and begins to flood. Parts of Houston are already seeing some flooding. Anyone in the Houston area should anticipate that they will see flooding of low areas near them. I say this because I once drowned my car in a puddle at a red light, all because that spot in the street was low and the water level was much higher than I could see. |
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Post by Merge on Aug 26, 2017 20:31:34 GMT
I'm sure most of us in/around Houston are familiar with this site, but for anyone who is kind of a weather geek and likes to read about the analysis behind the forecast, Space City Weather is an excellent, hype-free site run by two meteorologists who live here in the area. Eric and Matt are still speaking very seriously about the flood threat that Houston faces, and they don't do hyperbole. I don't envy the folks who are going to have to make school closure decisions over the next week if this all goes as forecast. In an area this large, there can be parts of the district that are high and dry, while other parts are flooded. In my district, the fact that we have a lot of magnet schools and our buses and students traverse the entire city in some cases means that we really need the whole district to be good to go before they re-open school. What a mess. I can't convey how beautiful those mid-coast Texas towns are (they really are - it's a very different "beach town" feel than most other parts of the country, very non-commercial) and the damage they've suffered is heartbreaking. |
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Aug 26, 2017 20:42:43 GMT
Merge - your link brings me right back here.
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Post by Merge on Aug 26, 2017 20:45:22 GMT
Merge - your link brings me right back here. Sorry, think I fixed it! |
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Post by txdancermom on Aug 26, 2017 22:03:10 GMT
We are in dallas and we have been having small showers off and on all day from the far outer bands of Harvey - nothing serious but those storms have an incredible reach.
I think Texas needs to be glad that there was not more of the Gulf of Mexico for it to go over before reaching shore - going from a tropical depression to a category 4 storm in just a couple days, if it had another day it would have been horrible.
praying for all my friends who are further south of Dallas and getting a lot more rain
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Post by yivit on Aug 26, 2017 22:10:55 GMT
I'm sure most of us in/around Houston are familiar with this site, but for anyone who is kind of a weather geek and likes to read about the analysis behind the forecast, Space City Weather is an excellent, hype-free site run by two meteorologists who live here in the area. Eric and Matt are still speaking very seriously about the flood threat that Houston faces, and they don't do hyperbole. I don't envy the folks who are going to have to make school closure decisions over the next week if this all goes as forecast. In an area this large, there can be parts of the district that are high and dry, while other parts are flooded. In my district, the fact that we have a lot of magnet schools and our buses and students traverse the entire city in some cases means that we really need the whole district to be good to go before they re-open school. What a mess. I can't convey how beautiful those mid-coast Texas towns are (they really are - it's a very different "beach town" feel than most other parts of the country, very non-commercial) and the damage they've suffered is heartbreaking. Eric and Matt's site is really pretty freaking awesome. Some of you locals may remember Eric as the SciGuy from the Chronicle. |
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Post by yivit on Aug 26, 2017 22:25:24 GMT
We are in dallas and we have been having small showers off and on all day from the far outer bands of Harvey - nothing serious but those storms have an incredible reach. I think Texas needs to be glad that there was not more of the Gulf of Mexico for it to go over before reaching shore - going from a tropical depression to a category 4 storm in just a couple days, if it had another day it would have been horrible. praying for all my friends who are further south of Dallas and getting a lot more rain This is what I'm calling a zombie storm because it JUST WON'T DIE. This sucker started as a tropical wave on 8/13. NHC Harvey archive
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2017 1:46:22 GMT
My sister-in-law lives in Spring (north side of Houston) and they've already gotten over 9 inches of rain, with another huge band of heavy rain about to hit. This next band is dropping 3-4 inches per hour, and is only moving 20 mph.
My dh's aunt lives in Port Lavaca, about 1500 feet from Lavaca Bay. They obviously had mandatory evacuations, but they're not even sure how much of their house they will come home to, or when.
Hope all the Peas are safe and stay dry!
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