Batten down the hatches, Texans.

[Ragnorakk]

Take care Texans, this is looking intense.

[garhkal]

Ive often wondered when a place like houston/galviston etc get this level of rain fall, why can't they have pipelines/pumps to SHIP that excess water to those states that continually get drought conditions?

[foxroe]

... Because that pipeline would end up going through some Neo-Nazi Pet Cemetery and pissing off some Spotted Owl Justice Warrior group.

Holy Moly! Still going! I hope everyone down there makes it through OK.

[Philotomy Jurament]

17.39" of rain in my neighborhood, today (with 2 hours to go), according to the closest weather monitoring station. That's around 2 feet of rain in the last two days. Incredible.

[JCBoney]

Shit like this is why I'm a misanthrope:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -rise.html

"Humanity" can smoke a dog turd in Hell for all I care.

[Philotomy Jurament]

Glad the photographer took action and rescued the dogs.

[Juju EyeBall]

We're really lucky to be this far North. Water hasn't even gotten over the top of the curb this whole time. Counting our blessings to be sure.

[gizmomathboy]

A decent twitter thread giving a decent explanation for how HOLYFUCKINGSHITSTORM drainage is handled in Houston. Oddly enough my son asked why don't they use the highways and a drainage solution and I (incorrectly) said that's a crazy idea. As in turns out, that's really part of the plan. Which I guess makes sense if you're gonna build in a crazy location like Houston (and then build with little planning for shit like hurricane precipitation).

https://twitter.com/CorbettMatt/status/ ... 6850804737

Also, you know it's never a good sign when you have to break out the log graphs for anything, especially shit like water discharge rates (8,000+ gallons/second!)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIRuXFCVAAAd87I.png:large

[Philotomy Jurament]

I went around my neighborhood, again, this morning to check the storm drains for blockage. They were clear. The main drainage gully for the neighborhood was at least 8 feet below its banks (very rough eyeball estimate), as was the main secondary channel that feeds into it. Still plenty of water in them, though.

The big creeks north and south of us are both out of their banks (by 17+ feet and 10+ feet in some areas). Our neighborhood's main drainage goes into the creek to the south of us. (We're about 2.5 miles away from either one.)

Useful info on Houston drainage:

https://www.harriscountyfws.org/ (Shows current channel levels, where they have sensors.)
http://harriscountyfemt.org/ (Show 100 year and 500 year floodplains, drainage channels, and ponding areas.)

The big news last night was that they opened dams at the Addicks and Barker reservoirs. That's flooding some up and downstream neighborhoods. I guess they had to.

[Philotomy Jurament]

Anyone hear from Matt or Joe? Both of them are (or were) in the Sugarland/Missouri City area. Some areas of Fort Bend had a mandatory evac order issued.

[Melan]

Keep safe, everyone!

Am I correct in the impression that this one's tougher than the other hurricanes that have hit the US recently?

[T. Foster]

Anyone hear from Matt or Joe? Both of them are (or were) in the Sugarland/Missouri City area. Some areas of Fort Bend had a mandatory evac order issued.

They've both ID'd themselves as "safe" on Facebook, FWIW

[rogatny]

Keep safe, everyone!

Am I correct in the impression that this one's tougher than the other hurricanes that have hit the US recently?

Yeah. The big problem is the storm has parked itself over an area that has a propensity to flood anyway. Forecasters are predicting over a year's worth of rain in a two or three day period. There's just no place for all the water to go.

And this is the US's 4th biggest city. 6 or 8 million people when all the outlying areas are taken into account. There was no way to get everyone out in time.

[Philotomy Jurament]

Keep safe, everyone!

Am I correct in the impression that this one's tougher than the other hurricanes that have hit the US recently?

When it made landfall it was pretty heavyweight (pretty much destroyed the town of Rockport). But it's also brought unprecedented amounts of rain to heavily populated areas, with flooding impact expected to be at least as damaging as Katrina was. News is characterizing it as "landmark", "lifetime storm," et cetera.

http://mashable.com/2017/08/27/harvey-d ... AO8Ltn3aqk

[Philotomy Jurament]

Anyone hear from Matt or Joe? Both of them are (or were) in the Sugarland/Missouri City area. Some areas of Fort Bend had a mandatory evac order issued.

They've both ID'd themselves as "safe" on Facebook, FWIW

Glad to hear that.