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

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you're doing a yeoman's job taking the attention away from peej

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Um, you know they're the same person right? Or did I miss the sarcasm?

Yep. First one since the 16 got up in the sky.

Water vapor imagery shows dry air to the west. Harvey seems to be handling it with ease so far, but perhaps it could hamper the development.

WWL reporting it's expected to become a Cat 3.

Man it's cut off most of that dry air and it's not a big plume of it either. I don't see it hampering strengthening much.

GFS has it up to possibly Cat 4 at landfall

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i work in the med center, and everything will be seriously tested there. hospitals, parking garages, flood doors, etc...gonna be a really trying time this wknd at tmc.

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Plans now are for all staff to check in with me Sunday morning. When we flood, I generally have a handful of employees unable to reach the office, but 2 of those are physicians living in Montrose and Memorial. We usually stay open with a skeleton crew and any docs that can make it in. But it's always so fluid that planning is difficult. I've also heard nothing from the buildings administration, so everything looks to be staying open.

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TGOAT

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the red marker rules all

It's crazy how this is how we used to track Hurricanes Hurricane Andrew almost exactly 25 years ago to the day

OP's title should be updated, no longer a strict flooding potential. Something along the lines of Major Hurricane would be appropriate