Batten down the hatches, Texans.

[francisca]

Hope none of the Texans here on the board are in the path of the hurricane. Hope you, your families, and friends are, and remain, safe throughout the coming ordeal.

[thedungeondelver]

Hope none of the Texans here on the board are in the path of the hurricane. Hope you, your families, and friends are, and remain, safe throughout the coming ordeal.

Yeah, y'all definitely keep your heads down.

[rogatny]

Be safe.

[ThirstyStirge]

Hopefully Lonestar Alehousers were smart enough to hightail it outta there before the storm hit. Just glad that I'm not under that pinwheel of death and destruction.

[AxeMental]

Hope none of the Texans here on the board are in the path of the hurricane. Hope you, your families, and friends are, and remain, safe throughout the coming ordeal.

Yeah, y'all definitely keep your heads down.

Yes stay safe. And don't forget not to drive over submerged roads. D

[austinjimm]

Any K&Kers from the TX coast, if you & your family need a place to stay while evacuated, I will put you up at my place in Austin.

Should have done this a couple days ago, but didn't suspect then how bad this would be, & I was out all day working today.

PM me if you need a place. I'll monitor my account inbox.

[thedungeondelver]

I watched an hour and 45 minute live-stream of some nutjob in Galveston who parked his car inside a car wash bay and showed basically the whole impact event (well, 1:45 of it). His weather feed on his laptop in the car was showing 150mph winds. The pharmacy off to his left (explanation below) essentially exploded due to wind force, and the bay behind the one he was in was demolished. Also, just before we lost the feed, part of the cement roof on the bay he was in was pulled away.

I...am not sure he's OK now.

Someone figured out where he was, it's here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0448352 ... 312!8i6656

if you pan around street view you'll see the pharmacy to the right of the car wash (as you look at it). He's in the 3rd bay to the right (we could see the blue payment shed in front, immediately to his left and ironically as flimsy as it looks, it took the whole storm without much damage up to the end of the feed.

Again, he said he was getting weather station info reports of 150mph sustained winds...

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1zqKVRbYXWWKB

Now he did drop when the eye itself was maybe 2000ft behind his location and moving towards him so I pray the guy just lost power or the nearest cell towers all crapped out and he is in fact OK.



EDIT: here's one of his feeds...he came back:

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1BdxYWPqQvAGX

Here he is in the eye:

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1ynJOVWlBBlGR

new "In the eye" update:

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1MYGNXLlaYQxw

[Philotomy Jurament]

I watched an hour and 45 minute live-stream of some nutjob in Galveston...Someone figured out where he was, it's here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0448352 ... 312!8i6656

Oh, he's in Rockport, not Galveston. That's pretty much ground-zero for the landfall. Actually, I know exactly where that is: he's close to the Rockport Wal-Mart. (We vacation in Rockport, sometimes.)

Crazy dude.

Here (Spring/Woodlands/N. Houston), we had showers, yesterday evening. This morning it's thunderstorms and coming down steady. Power has flickered, but still on, at the moment. Winds around me are light (nothing over 10 mph, and mostly less), right now, and shifting around, but mostly southerly and easterly, as might be expected.

My house has never flooded (even during Allison when some neighborhoods around me did experience flooding), but there's been a lot of development around here since then (more concrete, less open ground to soak up rain). I just hope no water makes it into the house in the coming week. I expect many streets to be awash, but we're well-set with drinking water and food.

Hope you guys farther south in the Houston area (and the rest of you, too, of course) stay high and dry, or bugged out. I don't know of anyone on the boards in the Rockport or Corpus Christi area, but hope anyone living around there got the hell out!

[thedungeondelver]

I watched an hour and 45 minute live-stream of some nutjob in Galveston...Someone figured out where he was, it's here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.0448352 ... 312!8i6656

Oh, he's in Rockport, not Galveston. That's pretty much ground-zero for the landfall. Actually, I know exactly where that is: he's close to the Rockport Wal-Mart. (We vacation in Rockport, sometimes.)

Crazy dude.

Here (Spring/Woodlands/N. Houston), we had showers, yesterday evening. This morning it's thunderstorms and coming down steady. Power has flickered, but still on, at the moment. Winds around me are light (nothing over 10 mph, and mostly less), right now, and shifting around, but mostly southerly and easterly, as might be expected.

My house has never flooded (even during Allison when some neighborhoods around me did experience flooding), but there's been a lot of development around here since then (more concrete, less open ground to soak up rain). I just hope no water makes it into the house in the coming week. I expect many streets to be awash, but we're well-set with drinking water and food.

Hope you guys farther south in the Houston area (and the rest of you, too, of course) stay high and dry, or bugged out. I don't know of anyone on the boards in the Rockport or Corpus Christi area, but hope anyone living around there got the hell out!

Yeah, I realized he was in Rockport later, meant to come and update the thread. They hunkered down next to the Wal-Mart's lee side to try and ride out the wind. They're leaving back to Houston this morning.

[gizmomathboy]

I was reading that the National Weather Service 7 day forecast for the area affected by Harvey will get about 32 trillion gallons of water. That's one third of Lake Erie.

That's also that most precipitation they've ever forecast. They forecast some areas to get 40" of water. Orlando gets 53" in an average year.

Even if it doesn't reach that mark, a Category 4 moving that slowly is gonna dump a lot of water.

[thedungeondelver]

I was reading that the National Weather Service 7 day forecast for the area affected by Harvey will get about 32 trillion gallons of water. That's one third of Lake Erie.

That's also that most precipitation they've ever forecast. They forecast some areas to get 40" of water. Orlando gets 53" in an average year.

Even if it doesn't reach that mark, a Category 4 moving that slowly is gonna dump a lot of water.

Yeah I'm just flabbergasted by how slow this thing is going to move. It'll still be TS strength and over the same general area on Thursday!

I'm used to storms that slog across or up our state in 36-48 hours, max.

[gizmomathboy]

I was reading that the National Weather Service 7 day forecast for the area affected by Harvey will get about 32 trillion gallons of water. That's one third of Lake Erie.

That's also that most precipitation they've ever forecast. They forecast some areas to get 40" of water. Orlando gets 53" in an average year.

Even if it doesn't reach that mark, a Category 4 moving that slowly is gonna dump a lot of water.

Yeah I'm just flabbergasted by how slow this thing is going to move. It'll still be TS strength and over the same general area on Thursday!

I'm used to storms that slog across or up our state in 36-48 hours, max.

If this storm is going to be a real asshole it will go back to see, gain strength and come back on shore. Although if it just has a piece of sucking up moisture from the gulf I'm not sure those on land could really tell the difference nor have fucks to give.

[thedungeondelver]

I was reading that the National Weather Service 7 day forecast for the area affected by Harvey will get about 32 trillion gallons of water. That's one third of Lake Erie.

That's also that most precipitation they've ever forecast. They forecast some areas to get 40" of water. Orlando gets 53" in an average year.

Even if it doesn't reach that mark, a Category 4 moving that slowly is gonna dump a lot of water.

Yeah I'm just flabbergasted by how slow this thing is going to move. It'll still be TS strength and over the same general area on Thursday!

I'm used to storms that slog across or up our state in 36-48 hours, max.

If this storm is going to be a real asshole it will go back to see, gain strength and come back on shore. Although if it just has a piece of sucking up moisture from the gulf I'm not sure those on land could really tell the difference nor have fucks to give.

Well stated. I've been through about a dozen hurricanes; a few tropical storms, most minor, a few moderate and I've gotta tell you, the NWS and just about anyone else high and dry inside a newsroom or disaster planning office or anywhere else talking about winds calming or "not that much damage" etc can go jump right into sewage and fire ant laced floodwaters. If you're not there when it's going down, don't split hairs to me about whether or not I'm in the middle of a storm or post storm surge or on a fringe squall line or whatever.

[Philotomy Jurament]

Weather monitoring stations near me recorded seven inches of rain, yesterday. We're up to 10 inches (so far) today.

This morning I took a walk around the neighborhood to make sure storm drains are clear of debris (they mostly were -- removed some pine needles and a few branches, but that's it). While I was out I saw a couple other men doing the same thing. I talked with one of them. He said he'd heard that Cypress Creek, south of me, is out of its banks. Also said that his cousin has a flat-bottomed boat and they were thinking about going to help people get out of flooded homes. I gave him my number in case they need more help, but to be honest I think I'd prefer to stick around and keep an eye on my family.

During a brief (20-30 min) lull in the rain, earlier, I checked the street and it had completely drained/cleared, so that's good. We're doing a lot better than some places around Houston.

[Philotomy Jurament]

...the NWS and just about anyone else high and dry inside a newsroom...

Houston KHOU-TV news offices on Sunday:



That's the Buffalo Bayou coming inside.