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bhamv3

bhamv3

evilmike said:
Fair enough. After all, @bhamv3 is probably the Halformite who is most likely to get hit by a cyclonic storm. I'm concerned for him too. It's just that my news filters are keyed to hurricanes and he gets hit by typhoons so they don't show up in my news feed.
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We're fine. The typhoon took one look at us, sort of gave us a half-hearted swipe, and then decided to go fight Hong Kong instead.
 
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Starting to rain here. Houston is being spared the main force, but Harvey is supposed to linger here for nearly a week. It will drop about 3ft of rain in that time. So winds probably will be manageable in H-Town, but the flooding will be a problem. We'll see if any of those millions of dollars they spent improving drainage after the Tax Day 2016 floods.
 
Eriol

Eriol

The company I work for has a sales office in Houston, and this came through our company email. Names redacted to protect the guilty:
I just spoke with **REDACTED** and he has “flood-zoned” his house and is getting ready to hit the high ground:

“For those interested, the Houston office is being temporarily relocated to the Hill Country just north of San Antonio. It will be accompanied by two kids and two dogs. **REDACTED** has to work today and won't be done until 7 so she will drive over afterward. We can't take a chance of getting caught in evacuation traffic or we would wait for her.

Note that Spring, where we live, isn't under evacuation order and it’s in a no flood zone, however, the forecast below isn't encouraging. Harvey is supposed to sit on top of this general area from Saturday afternoon until Tuesday or Thursday, depending on who you speak. “

* Rainfall from Harvey will cause devastating and life threatening flooding as a prolonged heavy rain and flash flood threat is expected to occur. Rainfall rates of 4 inches per hour or more will lead to flash flooding as rain squalls from Harvey become more numerous this morning along the coast and then spread inland tonight and over the weekend. Periods of heavy rainfall are expected from Harvey through at least Monday morning, and rainfall totals of 15 to 25 inches and isolated amounts up to 35inches are anticipated.
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So ya Gas, we apparently have an employee somewhat near you!
 
GasBandit

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Eriol said:
So ya Gas, we apparently have an employee somewhat near you!
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Spring is where Dave, Fade, Pez, Sixpack and I all met at that cajun restaurant. It's closer to Fade and Pez than Sixpack and I, it's about 80 miles from me, but yeah, we're all gonna take a bath. Here's hoping the vaunted drainage changes Fade was talking about are actually extant. As for me, I live on (what the locals count to be) a big hill with decent drainage, so I'm more worried about road conditions on Highway 6 as I drive home Sunday.
 
Dave

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Now my sister, she's in Spring. I sent her a message but haven't heard anything back yet.
 
sixpackshaker

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I predict about 10"s where I live. I am on the northern border of the storm area. The problem is the road out of my neighborhood floods at 5"s of rain. My house is safe, but might go some time without power or safe water.

So I did what anyone would do in my situation, I bought a half gallon of whiskey and a 12 pack of beer.
 
Dei

Dei

My husband's grandparents live in a trailer park San Benito, which is right next to Harlingen, which appears to be getting hit by the south side of the hurricane. I think I'm more concerned than he is, I don't know if that's good or bad.
 
CrimsonSoul

CrimsonSoul

Fucking Harvey. They said the flooding from it is supposed to be worse than last years flood, they think it will be the worse we've ever seen in this area
 
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Right now, it isn't bad. The problem is that Harvey is in a pincer between two high pressure areas. So it's going to stall here, possibly even moving back over water and restrengthening.
 
IronBrig4

IronBrig4

We just have showers here in Bryan. A&M is still planning for classes to start on Monday. Sam Houston's Woodlands campus closed early today but main campus is also expecting classes to be in session on Monday.

Even so, I went to HEB to top off my food and water supplies. It started to get a little crazy when I checked out.
 
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The "European model" has BCS getting more rain than Houston just FYI. At least as of last night.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Just started to rain in Huntsville. The feeder band looks like it is lined up to give MANY hours of thunderstorms that show up as red on the radar.[DOUBLEPOST=1503753527,1503752959][/DOUBLEPOST]
 
GasBandit

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That picture was from Ike, and was explained that nailing the plywood to the outside would cause more $ in damage to the frame than it would cost to replace the glass :p
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

I'm a little more north of Houston than the others, we've seen a few minutes of rain so far. People in the stores are acting like its the end of the world. I had to go to the gas station twice yesterday, first for the rental car we used on vacay (2017 Ford Fusion, averaged 40.8mpg for the whole 2000 mile trip), and second time for our personal car. Saw two different people that tried to "cut" in line by trying to back into a pump that was opening (car behind on both kept them from doing that) one guy got all pissy that he couldn't do what he wanted and sped off gesturing and apparently cussing as everyone else. Guess he didn't need gas that much then. Grocery stores are nuts with people trying to stock up for what will probably be less violent than a spring thunderstorm.
 
Sparhawk

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NOAA has changed the forecast path for TS Harvey, it's no longer expected to move back out to the Gulf, but will linger along it's present location possibly into Thursday.
 
sixpackshaker

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sixpackshaker said:
Well as of 1am the road to my house is open.
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I need to quit going out into inclement weather and drinking all night.

Saw the most Canadian thing I could think of on the Houston news this morning. A French Canadian priest cruising around town on a kayak. The on-the-spot reporter interviewed him. He was trying to get to his church for mass, but could not reach it in time. So he tried to buy wine to celebrate mass with the many people stranded on the free-way (Loop 610), but you can't buy alcohol before noon. He even made a joke about his forefathers converting the native Americans by canoe.

I am shocked that the worker at the convenience store just did not give him a bottle. So he said he would come back in 4 hours to buy the wine.
 
GasBandit

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Face the Nation is saying Houston is basically underwater. Hope you guy's are ok down there. I35 and hwy 6 seem to be open, so I'm gonna try for home... A paltry 3 hour drive normally, but now with a heavy rain twist that will slow me down and keep me on edge.
 
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