Hurricane Harvey Public Advisory

[thackney]

Texas coastal residents urged to leave in 'strongest possible terms' as Hurricane Harvey intensifies in the Gulf
http://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-coastal-residents-urged-leave-strongest-terms-hurricane/story?id=49401529

The rainfall shown below is the initial, not total expected.  We are in Brazoria County.

[txradioguy]

Hurricanes...another reason why living in West Texas was/is the safer option. 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

15 inches of rain. Holy shit.

15 inches of snow is a shit show. Stay safe.

[catfish1957]

Hurricanes...another reason why living in West Texas was/is the safer option. 

Hmmmmm......

[austingirl]

I hate hearing that. My dogs will NEVER be separated from me in an emergency. I'd rather ride it out and hope for the best than leave my dogs. It breaks my heart to think of how frightened that dog must have been.  :nometalk:

My dogs will be at my side no matter what. We may get a lot of rain but at an elevation where we won't flood. My doggies HATE rain so it may be a bad few days for them.

[GrouchoTex]

I rode out Alicia at my sister's. When the eye came over, we went out to check on a neighbor's dog. They were out of town. The dog was OK, just scared. Its dog house had blown over and into the chain link fence. there was about 6 inches of water in the yard and the dog rode it out under the dog house. It was very eerie going out in the eye.

I lived near Ellington/Clear Lake then.
We got about 1 inch of water throughout the house.
We figured it would be worse, so we prepared by putting everything up that we could.
Lost the carpet and a bunch of yellow pages phone books!
The eye came over us, too.

[thackney]

15 inches of rain. Holy shit.

15 inches of snow is a shit show. Stay safe.

Our area is expected to be 20" over the next 7 days.  Isolated spots of 30".

[GrouchoTex]

The rainfall shown below is the initial, not total expected.  We are in Brazoria County.

You're in Brazoria, and I'm in Ft. Bend.
Hallelujah.

[AllThatJazzZ]

The rainfall shown below is the initial, not total expected.  We are in Brazoria County.

Can't tell you how much I hate seeing this, especially since I'm smack in the deep purple area. I can almost see my house.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

No wonder you guys are preppers. That is a ton of rain.

[GrouchoTex]

This was just a few years ago.   20 times 3!

Yeah, I have to get more beer on the way home, that's for sure.

[Bigun]

You're in Brazoria, and I'm in Ft. Bend.
Hallelujah.

I live in Walker County right on the line between 6-8 and 8-10.

Big advantage is roughly 400ft ASL.

[catfish1957]

Can't tell you how much I hate seeing this, especially since I'm smack in the deep purple area. I can almost see my house.

I'm a click east of that map, but I sure can extrapolate a 10-15 inch gullywasher here.

[Sanguine]

I live in Walker County right on the line between 6-8 and 8-10.

I'm up on the 3" line.  Thankfully.

[AllThatJazzZ]

I lived near Ellington/Clear Lake then.
We got about 1 inch of water throughout the house.
We figured it would be worse, so we prepared by putting everything up that we could.
Lost the carpet and a bunch of yellow pages phone books!
The eye came over us, too.

We were neighbors. I lived on West Bay Area about 1 mile west of Baybrook Mall. I worked in that office building across from Red Lobster which was just opening up and in the process of getting leased out. I nearly stayed at home with an alternate plan in mind of going over the office and riding it out there. Instead I went with my parents to my aunt's in Waller. Good thing I did. My apartment got hit by a little twister and the roof came down on my bedroom. The office building had an atrium in it, and it appeared that the winds swirled down into that open space and tore up the inside of that building. I wouldn't have been safe either place. It was at that point I began to drop my lackadaisical attitude about tropical storms and hurricanes.

[Bigun]

I'm up on the 3" line.  Thankfully.

I used to fish in that little lake up your way from time to time.

[GrouchoTex]

I live in Walker County right on the line between 6-8 and 8-10.

Did you ever eat at the New Zion Missionary Baptist Church Barbeque in Huntsville?

[Hoodat]

You mean I wasn't the only 20 something Texan yelling "Hurricane Party"?

It's all fun up until the point that you lose power.

[Bigun]

Did you ever eat at the New Zion Missionary Baptist Church Barbeque in Huntsville?

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.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The storm's surge could be life threatening, up to 10 feet, with waves as high as 20 feet above that. Rain is expected to range from 10 to 20 inches, and some areas could receive up to 30 inches. Perilous flash flooding and 115 mph gusts are possible.

"Harvey is expected to landfall around 1 a.m. Saturday, based on the current track," ABC News meteorologist Melissa Griffin said, adding that more time over water could increase the storm's strength. "If it had another day or two, it could be a higher category."

The storm is being compared with not only Hurricane Bret but also the devastating Tropical Storm Allison, which in 2001 punished Houston with 40 inches of rain.

The biggest worry with Hurricane Harvey is that it's expected to stall over southeast Texas, Griffin said.

"When it does make landfall, it is expected to ... not move for several days, which is why we expect the rainfall to be the most devastating," Griffin said. "Some spots could receive over 30 inches."

At a press conference Thursday afternoon, Corpus Chisti's newly elected Mayor Joe McComb told residents not to dismiss Harvey and to heed requests for voluntary evacuations.

"We encourage the residents in low-lying areas as they say, 'to get out of Dodge,'" the mayor said.

McComb stressed that flooding alone could cut off electricity and water from homes in the area. "Go to a family, friend and get to higher ground," he said.


http://abcnews.go.com/US/harvey-expected-make-landfall-major-hurricane/story?id=49397270

Wow .. this looks pretty serious.  I hope Texas Briefers take seriously any requests for voluntary evacuations.

Stay safe!!

[Sanguine]

I used to fish in that little lake up your way from time to time.

I haven't had time to try it, but will do so when it cools off a bit.

[Bigun]

I haven't had time to try it, but will do so when it cools off a bit.

It's full of my favorite fish.  Crappie.

[AllThatJazzZ]

My dogs will be at my side no matter what. We may get a lot of rain but at an elevation where we won't flood. My doggies HATE rain so it may be a bad few days for them.

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

[GrouchoTex]

It's all fun up until the point that you lose power.

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....

[AllThatJazzZ]

PARTS OF BRAZORIA COUNTY UNDER MANDATORY EVACUATION ORDERS.

[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.