I’ve lived in New Orleans and Houston, and while NO floods more quickly and with less rain, Houston foods more catastrophically (major caveat: I’m considering Katrina as a levee break, not a rain-induced flood).
Harvey just might be the worst one yet. Well north of town I’ve gotten a foot in 36 hours and it will not stop raining.
Meanwhile, the storm was barely moving. Rainfall totals varied across the region, with Corpus Christi and Galveston receiving around 3 inches (8 centimeters), Houston 7 (18 centimeters) and Aransas 10 (25 centimeters). Tiny Austwell got 15 inches (38 centimeters).
Wunderground is reporting that some areas might get as much as 40 inches (1.02 meters) or more… Imperial (or metric), that´s an awesome amount of water in a short period of time. I don´t know how you could engineer an area like southeast Texas to deal with that.And whether or not they can pin this specific storm amount on global warming, global warming will make massive rain events more common.
Go to the Houston Chronicle website to see photos of the storm damage:
What I find interesting is if you go to a weather radar map, Harvey has disappeared over Corpus Christi & now seems to be over the upper Texas Gulf Coast (Houston, Beaumont).
There will be lots of Trump voters needing Mexican labor to rebuild after this.
Buffalo Bayou Park normally:
Buffalo Bayou Park late yesterday
Those pedestrian bridges in the lower right corner of the lower picture during normal times
Best of luck to you. I’m glad yours is the first comment I read today because my heart has not been far from saying ‘Texas deserves everything it gets,’ but I have a bad left ventricle (in the sense that it’s evil, not malfunctioning). The other three chambers work at remembering all the individual people who are going to suffer with this, not the collective that many of us think of Texas as being.
My other also pointed out that many of those displaced by Katrina wound up in the Houston area, and that’s not the kind of thing people should have to endure twice in a lifetime.
Harris County went for Clinton 52-44%. 45 had best not show up here. He’ll get an ear-full.
That’s a point which needs to be made over and over again; most southern big cities are Blue. Atlanta is very Blue.
Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and El Paso went overwhelmingly for Clinton. Trump only carried 2 precincts in Austin, and in both, the people who voted for Gary Johnson prevented Hillary from winning.
I live in Midtown and we got hammered with 14+ inches overnight… my street was a river for about 3 hours when the bands came together over downtown about midnight. Luckily, my house didn’t get any water inside - but came close!
Thankfully, the water has receded for now. Stay safe everyone!
The only republican to get any crossover votes in Houston is Judge Emmett… as he’s the only sane one around these days.
I lived on Drew during the last storm. The main reason I moved to the 4th floor at Welch and Shepherd. Stay dry. Don’t loot Spec’s (leave something for me!)
He promptly slapped down Abbott yesterday.
I hope after the floods recede and the cleanup and rebuilding commence the folks in Houston have a honest well overdue discussion about zoning, planning and resiliency. Yes taxes too.
Well, well, well . . . Ted Cruz who voted against aid to New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy is now begging the federal government for more aid. These phonies aren’t even a little embarrassed to be blatant, public hypocrites.
Why are emergency response teams relying on cell phones?? That’s one of the first things to go. They need another system.