Hurricane Harvey Public Advisory

[GrouchoTex]

Only a few hundred times!  Unfortunately it is no longer what it once was.  The original pitmaster retired and his replacement isn't a pimple  so to speak.

Been quite  while since I've been there, myself.

[GrouchoTex]

4:00 pm update coming.....

[catfish1957]

Especially since it's usually August or September when we get hit.
Let not forget our little friends, the mosquitoes, which will be EVERYWHERE a few days later....

After Rita my lower extremeties looked like measles after all the Fire Ant Bites.  Post storm, they apparently have homing devices toward anything dry.    Brutal....

[Bigun]

Harvey now has a tight eye which means it is still strengthening and is likely to continue to do so.

[AllThatJazzZ]

4:00 pm update coming.....

And I don't like it.

[Bigun]

Been quite  while since I've been there, myself.

Don't bother now.  There is much better avalible elsewhere.

[GtHawk]

Good luck to all in the path of this weather, can I be the first here to bring up AGW? You all live in some interesting and beautiful parts of America, but despite our lunatic government here in California I think disaster wise, I will stick with the occasional earthquake and flood over massive flood, hurricane and tornado! May all affected and their families come through safely.

[catfish1957]

4:00 pm update coming.....

Ugh...   Hit as a major  Cat 3....reverses and returns to coast......    Then hugs the coast up to La.

Historical rainmaker in the works?

[austingirl]

Got potty pads? Mine are bound to get desperate enough to have to resort to them.

Sure do. It may come to that. My new little girl hates wet grass, even hours after it has stopped raining.

[Bigun]

Good luck to all in the path of this weather, can I be the first here to bring up AGW? You all live in some interesting and beautiful parts of America, but despite our lunatic government here in California I think disaster wise, I will stick with the occasional earthquake and flood over massive flood, hurricane and tornado! May all affected and their families come through.

We generally  get plenty of warning.  You get basically none!  I think I will stick with the storms!

[corbe]

At first, we thought this was going to be another Alison, which was bad enough.
Now, it seems like Alison on Steroids.
This is starting to get serious.
Last I saw was a Cat 3 prediction and moving slightly up the coast from the 7:00 am prediction.

Should be another advisory now, since it is past 1:00 pm central.
I am in Sugar Land, southwest of Houston.
I usually don't get flooded, but I can't go anywhere.
I have to somehow make it around the addicks reservoir issue to get to work.
I usually can't get into North Katy for a while.

Lost a turbo vent and on side of my backyard fence during IKE in 2008, and felt pretty lucky.

  They'll always be a special place in my heart and a blank space in my mind about Addicks Reservoir, dropped a lot of acid in the late 60's there. Fireworks fights on the 4th of July were the best too.  @GrouchoTex

[GrouchoTex]

RAINFALL:  Harvey is expected to produce total rain accumulations
of 15 to 25 inches and isolated maximum amounts of 35 inches over
the middle and upper Texas coast through next Wednesday. During the
same time period Harvey is expected to produce total rain
accumulations of 7 to 15 inches in far south Texas and the Texas
Hill Country over through central and southwest Louisiana, with
accumulations of up to 7 inches extending into other parts of Texas
and the lower Mississippi Valley. Rainfall from Harvey may cause
devastating and life-threatening flooding.

[GrouchoTex]

www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL092017_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/152721_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png

[AllThatJazzZ]

Good luck to all in the path of this weather, can I be the first here to bring up AGW? You all live in some interesting and beautiful parts of America, but despite our lunatic government here in California I think disaster wise, I will stick with the occasional earthquake and flood over massive flood, hurricane and tornado! May all affected and their families come through safely.

Thank you for your well wishes. These storms truly are a pain in the butt. However, I will take them over the disaster that traumatized my sister-in-law enough to cause her to move out of her beloved California. At least we get time to get to ourselves and our loved ones to a place of safety. How much warning did the Northridge earthquake victims get? 



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZn8gfaxkbw

[Elderberry]

After Rita my lower extremeties looked like measles after all the Fire Ant Bites.  Post storm, they apparently have homing devices toward anything dry.    Brutal....

I boated to my cabin on the Trinity during a flood years ago. I saw one of my neighbors wading across his yard in his underwear. I though odd, until I had ants in my pants. Everything floating had fire ants riding on it. And I saw football size mounds of fire ants floating along.

[GtHawk]

We generally  get plenty of warning.  You get basically none!  I think I will stick with the storms!

Human nature, we are all more comfortable with what we know.

[corbe]

   Gotta hand it to these ol Germans in my town, Both the Liquor store and the HEB is wall to wall, madhouse, by the time the stoners figure it out it will be too late.

[txradioguy]

Hmmmmm......

Lubbock and Amarillo get the pretty funnel clouds like that. Thankfully Midland is in a bit of a bowl so the tornadoes tend to hit all around us but not directly on the city.

That is a very rare event.

[Victoria33]

I am now north of Dallas but still have my house in Montgomery County and the rain there is to be 8-12 inches.  Last year during a terrible amount of water, rainwater came through the tile roof, put an inch of water on the first floor.  It is a townhouse and those tile roofs are a problem.  I have someone going to check my house after the rain event is over.

My house won't get flood water but one eight doors down from mine, during that rain last year, had flood water going through their back doors and flowing out the front door.  That may happen to them again.  They are elderly, he is frail, has trouble walking and the wife has Leukemia, cancer of the blood.

[Wingnut]

It's full of my favorite fish.  Crappie.

The fillet mignon of Sunfishes.

[GrouchoTex]

  They'll always be a special place in my heart and a blank space in my mind about Addicks Reservoir, dropped a lot of acid in the late 60's there. Fireworks fights on the 4th of July were the best too.  @GrouchoTex

I drive it 2 times a day (weather permitting)

[Victoria33]

I heard a Montgomery County press conference (my townhouse is there), tell people to have three to five days of food, fill their cars with gas, and expect power outages and flooding in low lying areas.  Some churches have already lined up to to take those who have to leave their homes.

[Bigun]

The fillet mignon of Sunfishes.

 

[corbe]

I drive it 2 times a day (weather permitting)

    I'm so old I can remember when Hwy 6 was a two lane blacktop, no shoulders.  Sometimes, I still miss Houston, very vibrant City. I spend most my time now, when I go, in the Woodlands.

[thackney]

PARTS OF BRAZORIA COUNTY UNDER MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDERS.

Pretty limited area.  But thanks for the update to cause me to check!  I'm 25 miles in and ~50 ft up.

http://abc13.com/traffic/evacuation-orders-issued-in-advance-of-hurricane-harvey/2337616/

MANDATORY EVACUATION:
Aransas Pass - Mandatory evacuation order issued
Brazoria County - Mandatory evacuation order issued for coastal communities along the Gulf side of the Intracoastal Waterway
Calhoun County - Mandatory evacuation order issued
Matagorda County - Everyone south of FM521 is included in the mandatory evacuation order, including the communities of Palacios, Collegeport, Matagorda, Sargent and Wadsworth.