re: Harvey ***Catastrophic Flooding Event***

In perspective..on the North side of Houston on Tax Day last year, my work received 15"+ of rain in 24 hours. Some places Northwest, that drain. Creeks came out, but we're down in 48 hours.

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My biggest personal concern with this is the farmers crops in northeast LA. If we get 4-6" up here in a short period of time, it will be bad.

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Anytime NELA gets that much rain it floods the Sabine. I have family that had to evac last time the Sabine flooded. Not fun.

The Tax Day floods that effected Cypress were the result of the Spring Creek water table flowing over into the Cy-Creek water table, it was a historic amount of rainwater on already saturated ground and as the rains moved to cent tex the water flowed south and it was too much too quick

There is going to be more rain this time ,but it tough to say where it will rain 20 + inches vs areas that get 12 +
still a lot of rain but over 3-4 days and the ground isnt as saturated


Meyerland was a failure of Houston drainage system the bayous were fine. It was a lot of rain but that was preventable if the people running Houston over the past 16 years weren't morons. Plus Meyerland Floods so the Med Center wont
Allison another historic rain bringer , forced the issue

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Yea. Houston is quick to drain.

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True, but depending on how the storm behaves, that may not matter much. The GFS run had 23 inches of rain in 48 hours north of Houston, after Houston had already been drenched in the prior days. That would/could keep flooding risk in tact longer than the immediate rains in Houston would suggest.

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I just know Houston can handle a storm way better than most large cities. It's pretty impressive really.

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Again, my comments weren't just directed towards the impact on Houston. I'm referring to the entire area that's going to be effected.

This worries me as well and I live in Houston .
Lots of friends could be in trouble

Are we done talking about Houston?

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That basically tells me no one knows where the hell its going

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I'm just trying to find the newest model runs

Can't trust these weather guys. I plan on waking up early and seeing if anything changes.