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Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:07 pm to slackster
Houston about to get it again 
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:08 pm to OWLFAN86
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how do you move over 6 million people in 24 hours or less?
it's not a tornado, they've called Texas for over a week
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:10 pm to Lsut81
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Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:11 pm to OWLFAN86
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Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:12 pm to Lsut81
It's getting scary at my house in sugar Land. Water is all of a sudden a half inch from the back door. Got more than 6 inches in past 3 hours.
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:14 pm to Rhino5
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it's not a tornado, they've called Texas for over a week
An underrated problem is Houston transplants not being familiar with hurricanes, and blowing off any initial advice.
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:15 pm to Rhino5
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it's not a tornado, they've called Texas for over a week
If people cannot understand the logistical problems that make this completely impossible for an area from Corpus to Orange, I'm not sure what to tell you.
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:16 pm to msutiger
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Hopefully it rolls through quick. Not much behind it.
Looks that way right now, but we've said that for 24 hours and it continues to fill in.
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:18 pm to TthomasJR
What's the word on Cinco Ranch? It seemed flat as a pancake out there and I'm not familiar with how it might be impacted.
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:18 pm to Rhino5
quote:when it was a TS
it's not a tornado, they've called Texas for over a week
was a Cat 4 when it landed
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:18 pm to lsutiger2010
But they knew they were looking at 30"+ of rain 4 days ago and people still chose to stay and now look.
I don't understand when you know 4 days in advance that the area you live is expecting 30"-50" of rain and you choose to ingore it.
Now you have another 3 days of 20 more inches and you have no where to go, so now you're going to blame city and state.
People are so dumb.
I don't understand when you know 4 days in advance that the area you live is expecting 30"-50" of rain and you choose to ingore it.
Now you have another 3 days of 20 more inches and you have no where to go, so now you're going to blame city and state.
People are so dumb.
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:18 pm to Rhino5
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they've called Texas for over a week
Well that's bullshite. Harvey didn't even exist a week ago.
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:19 pm to slackster
The band is expanding as it hits 288, which will just cause it to hang around longer. Looks like more may be building behind it 
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:21 pm to udtiger
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Is SELA looking at more rain than initially estimated?
Probably not widespread tonight and looks like the heaviest totals should stay south of 10.
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:21 pm to msutiger
That radar loop does not look good at all.
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:22 pm to Rhino5
It didn't exist a week ago. It also went from a cat 2 to a cat 4 and made landfall all in 1 day.
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:24 pm to rds dc
From the Army Corps of Engineers:
[img]GALVESTON, Texas– Because of the extreme nature of the ongoing weather event in the Houston area, Army Corps of Engineers officials have determined that they will likely have to release intermittent amounts of water from both Addicks and Barker reservoirs to reduce the risk to the Houston metropolitan area.
“These structures continue to perform as they were designed to do, which is to protect against flooding in downtown Houston and the Houston Ship Channel,” said Col. Lars Zetterstrom, Galveston District commander. “However, we do expect to release late this evening into early tomorrow morning.
“It is also likely that water will go over the uncontrolled spillways at the ends of both dams, as designed for large floods. If this happens, it will most likely start around the northern end of Addicks Dam, and both ends of Barker Dam,” he added.
“This flood event will exceed the 2016 tax day flood elevations. Structures will be impacted upstream from both locations; the number of structures affected will depend on weather conditions,” Zetterstrom said.
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[img]GALVESTON, Texas– Because of the extreme nature of the ongoing weather event in the Houston area, Army Corps of Engineers officials have determined that they will likely have to release intermittent amounts of water from both Addicks and Barker reservoirs to reduce the risk to the Houston metropolitan area.
“These structures continue to perform as they were designed to do, which is to protect against flooding in downtown Houston and the Houston Ship Channel,” said Col. Lars Zetterstrom, Galveston District commander. “However, we do expect to release late this evening into early tomorrow morning.
“It is also likely that water will go over the uncontrolled spillways at the ends of both dams, as designed for large floods. If this happens, it will most likely start around the northern end of Addicks Dam, and both ends of Barker Dam,” he added.
“This flood event will exceed the 2016 tax day flood elevations. Structures will be impacted upstream from both locations; the number of structures affected will depend on weather conditions,” Zetterstrom said.
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Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:34 pm to Rhino5
There are a lot of problems, many which were largely unavoidable to be honest.
A lot of the long range forecasts early in the week, Tuesday/Wednesday were definitely forecasting the potential for a devastating amount of accumulated rainfall but most of the National Weather Forecast projections were much more conservative which contributed to some people not thinking much of it.
When you live as far inland as Houston and they tell you a hurricane is coming most people are going to say well we're far enough from the ocean to avoid the worst of it. I don't think there was enough public awareness of the path of this storm that many of the models were projecting and exactly how serious the flooding potential was.
There was a LOT of good information in this thread very early on that exactly what has happened was a real possibility, some Houstonians that were involved in these very discussions still decided to not leave even with all the information we had. The percentage of people that had any idea that this was even in the realm of possibility was really low.
It's just a historically catastrophic weather event and the finger pointing now isn't going to help anything.
A lot of the long range forecasts early in the week, Tuesday/Wednesday were definitely forecasting the potential for a devastating amount of accumulated rainfall but most of the National Weather Forecast projections were much more conservative which contributed to some people not thinking much of it.
When you live as far inland as Houston and they tell you a hurricane is coming most people are going to say well we're far enough from the ocean to avoid the worst of it. I don't think there was enough public awareness of the path of this storm that many of the models were projecting and exactly how serious the flooding potential was.
There was a LOT of good information in this thread very early on that exactly what has happened was a real possibility, some Houstonians that were involved in these very discussions still decided to not leave even with all the information we had. The percentage of people that had any idea that this was even in the realm of possibility was really low.
It's just a historically catastrophic weather event and the finger pointing now isn't going to help anything.
Posted on 8/27/17 at 8:34 pm to Impotent Waffle
I am hearing Sugarland is getting hammered. Raining sheets and tornado warning
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