Hunkering Down for Hurricane Harvey...
mmitchell_houston
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I'm in NW Houston (about 100 miles from The Gulf of Mexico), well stocked, well provisioned, and have extra battery backups for my systems. Assuming more trees don't hit my house (which happened during Hurricane Ike back in 2008: $60k in damages) and knock out my power (16 days without, during Ike), I'm hoping to hunker down, watch some movies and maybe get a little art done.
Anyone else here in the path of destruction?
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Stay safe, everyone! I have friends in the vicinities, so will be checking on them. Good luck with everything, mmitchell.
eeks hurricane,
wishing yoo luck and prayers !
Stay safe and good luck, Mike! If it gets bad, please get out and get to safety. Please keep us posted.
My wife was house sitting in Clute (by Freeport on the Gulf). I finally convinced her to leave last night around 2000 CDT. I wouldn't have been so adament even up to Cat 1, but Harvey strengthened really fast. I was working on her most of the day.
I'm in Houston too, slightly North East though. My family and I bought a ton of food, water and flashlights to prepare. Plus, we're trying to gather our entire family together to live at our house until Harvey passes. Luckily we don't have alot of trees, but I hope our house doesn't flood. I just bought new hardware. (I'd better pack my videocard just in case XD)
I'm in Corpus Christi, it's been raining all day and the storm proper should be blowing in in a few hours.
Wow, seriously?! Stay safe, I heard the storm is supposed to hit by 6:00PM.
I'm on the NW side in a reservoir XD Also hunkered down with a new movie :D
Hunkering down too...little further inland. We'll be able to avoid the storm surge and hopefully the hurricane force winds but we probably won't be spared from the torrential rains and tornadoes.
Trish
I feel for you. I'm in Houston and was living on the water during Alicia. We had 8 tornados touch down within a block of our apartment, got flooded and had no power for a week. Then we got flooded again during Chantal, had a falling tree nearly cut our garage in half during Rita, and were without power for another week after Ike. Hurricanes are just so much fun.
But, and this is speaking as a native Californian, it's STILL better than living in Los Angeles!
To everyone in the path of Hurricane Harvey, Best of luck and stay safe. Its not looking too good with the latest reports of the hurrican strengthening to a catgory three with winds of 120 mph. If you can still get out and have a safe place to go, please do so.
I once had the remnants of a hurricane topple a very large maple onto my kitchen roof and wall over 1000 miles from where it entered the coast of Texas.
Got a friend in the Houston area too, hope he's keeping safe though chances are he'll have to work in the storm bein' he's a doctor and emergency rooms get especially hectic during such times. Was talking to his Mom just a little while ago, she's really worried and hoping he'll get a chance to call her or one of the sibs on this side of the border soon. Here's hoping and praying that everyone in Harvey's reach makes it through safe and sound.
Thanks, we should be fine. I live almost 100-miles inland in a very elevated part of Houston. Our streets tend to flood, but there are very few places in our neighborhood that have taken in water inside the houses (which is NOT fun; my home was wiped out by rising flood waters in 2001 during Tropical Storm Allison). And if I did need to get out, well... the window of opportunity for that has closed. If an evacuation were called for, the roads would be too jammed by now to get out.
Freeport? Yup, she needed to get out. Just in case.
No kidding at all, after Allison in 2001 (we got a call from my brother-in-law that the bayou had crested its bank, we had literally 15 minutes to grab stuff, dogs, and get out in his jacked-up pick-up truck). It took about 7 years before a lot of rainfall didn't trigger some kind of panic or flashback. Even now, 16 years later, with them predicting the same type of slow-moving rainfall that we had then, I'm feeling a little anxious. Once you go through something like that, you're never quite the same.
Anyway, thanks for the well wishes, folks!
Looks like it's going in about 30 miles north of the city so were not getting the roughest winds. So far alot of wind and rain. We've lost power three times. (Uninterruptable Power Supply is a wonder.)
Please stay safe all you guys in its path!
I've been watching developments on the BBC news. Things look really, really scary at the moment. Stay safe, guys.
Cheers,
Alex.
Things are bad in Corpus Christi, but here in NW Houston, it's hardly raining at all. And almost no wind. Of course, that could all change by tomorrow.
My husband was the Executive Officer of Airstation Houston during Allison. All those air water-rescues and anything the Coast Guard did from the airstation were under his supervision as the Commanding Officer was over in Italy at the time. (what a time to go on vacation! But Allison was supposed to go over the city and clear out by mid-evening, that's why everyone went downtown for a typical weekend night. Then Allison drifted back over us and parked. So I know what Harvey is about to do, so far as flooding.)
We lived up in Humble / Kingswood though, away from the coast. I hope you all stay safe and dry, and that you filled your cars up because gas stations are going to have long lines once the power gets back on or the storm moves out next week. (not just for cars- for chainsaws and generators.)
It's dropped from a Category 4 to a Category 2 now, but slowing down as predicted.(going on 5am here.) Hoping for the best for you!
National Weather Service just downgraded it to Catagory 1 (90mph wind) Still predicting 40" of rain in some areas though.
Are you still there, and head above water?
My power went out for about an hour or two, it just came back on. Doesn't seem to be floodng outside yet, but it seriously gray and raining hard outside. The wind sounds kind of bad though.
If there are just 30 mph winds here, I can't imagne how the winds are near the eye.
Our area seems to be okay at the moment. We've had tornado warnings and a lot of rain. We are currently under a flash flood warning. It appears that this is going to go on all weekend and into early next week.
I'm in Harlingen and as it was moving in yesterday I had a whopping 17mph wind and a little over a 1/4in of rain The rain stopped by 10:30 AM So for me it turned out to be nothing
Currently The new projected track doesn't have it going along the coast to Houston anymore. The official NWS/NOAA forecast is for a slow left loop back to the coast over a few days and then turning almost due north going far inland towards Dallas or Longview. They think it will be over Bryan/College Station around noon Thursday
We caught a good break in Corpus Christi, a lot of fences and trees down, but not a lot of building damage. Unfortunately the towns north (Rockport, Portland, Victoria) of us are taking a lot of damage.
I'm getting flashbacks to Katrina when it dropped a few categories but still did lots of damage :( I hope everyone in Houston will stay safe...
We're in League City about a mile from the Kemah Boardwalk and Galveston Bay. They always get a lot of flooding over there, but it doesn't come inland as far as us. We're about 20 miles off the Gulf of Mexico, but my MIL lives on Galveston Island. She's safe, and of course the streets there are flooded, but they do that just with regular rain. We had super bad heavy rain starting yesterday during the day and lasted all night with high winds, thunder that shook the windows. But we didn't lose any trees or our fence, so that's a positive. We're bracing for more again tonight and hope it doesn't come. Plus we lost internet last night which was horrible, LOL! No power outtage though thank God.
khou.com has live weather- they're telling you exactly where the bands are training
Don't know if this link will work, if not, just go to the main site
http://www.khou.com/weather/houston-weather-forecast/62951506
So far, the rain today was relatively light, but fairly constant and that's when the problems start, as most of the city is around a yard above sea level, so eventually the water runs out of places to run off to. The big feeder bands that pull fresh water off the gulf started crossing over this afternoon and one of the places near here reported 1 1/2 inches of rain in 45 minutes. At least there's been only one Tornado touch down that I know of, but it obviously had it in for fast food restaurants, as it took out a Pizza Hut, A KFC and a Wing Stop in one fell swoop.
Update - we've had over 13 inches fall in my neighborhood now, but some parts of town have already received 22 inches since this morning. A few hours ago the streets here had completely overflowed with the water halfway up to the house, but then the rain slowed for a bit and the drainage has caught up... for now, at least. Several of our friends haven't been so fortunate and have already taken in water. And there are more bands coming through over the next two-three days. They said Allison was a 100 year flood (the highest water in a hundred years) but Harvey is covering a much wider area and now looks to be a 500 year flood.