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[2019] Hurricane season

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Xenon, Jul 8, 2019.

  1. ima_drummer2k

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    Buffalo Bayou has now gone over the banks. Memorial and Allen Parkway are both under water. Especially Memorial.....
     
  2. LonghornFan

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    Like clockwork. Rain = Memorial drowns.
     
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  3. Houstunna

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    Houston, TX

    Flood Capital USA


    The saga continues ....
     
  4. Haymitch

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    Looks like I'll be staying overnight in the Med Center. Thankfully MD Anderson has a nice restaurant and hotel... not sure if a nonpatient can stay there though.

    Nvm finally got a Lyft driver willing to take me to Cypress
     
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  5. donkeypunch

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    There has now been one confirmed death
     
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  6. Roc Paint

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    Just heard :(
     
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  7. Rocket River

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    I am hoping High Way 6 is good

    Rocket River
     
  8. Roc Paint

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    Time to go to work JJ!
     
  9. KingCheetah

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    Here are some of the worst flooding events in Houston since the 90's.
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    • October 15–19, 1994 - The Great Flood of '94 Hurricane Rosa leaves a stalled tropical depression over north Houston for a week. With over 30 inches of rain recorded in some places of Harris County, 20 inches in a number of hours, and maximum recorded stream flow volume at all recorded stations in the history of the San Jacinto River. The result was the highest flood levels of the San Jacinto basin to the present day, devastating the north side of Houston and killing 22 people in Texas. Petroleum lines bursting and setting aflame injured another 540 people.
    • June 5 – June 9, 2001 - Tropical Storm Allison devastates the Houston area flooding much of the city including the Central Business District, several cultural institutions and major hospitals and research facilities in the Texas Medical Center. The storm is called a 500-year event.
    • June 19, 2006 - Major flooding in Southeast Houston causes homes and roads to fill up with water. This was the most rain since Tropical Storm Allison in 2001
    • September 13, 2008 - Hurricane Ike passes through city causing flooding, wind damage and widespread power failures.
    • May 25–26, 2015 - Historic Houston Flood Devastating storms floods most of the city.
    • April 18, 2016 - The 2016 Houston floods took place in nine counties near the city.[32]
    • August 2017 - Hurricane Harvey devastates the city, flooding homes and roads.
     
  10. Dr of Dunk

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    Man, I must be losing my mind because I don't even remember a Hurricane Rosa, and I lived there during '94. Allison I definitely remember, but I had moved out of Houston by then.
     
  11. davidio840

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    It’s probably because Rosa was a storm in the Pacific and made landfall on the west coast of Mexico. The remnants collided with a front (this was in mid October of 94) and dumped copious amounts of rain over SE Texas. I was 12 at the time and we lived in Friendswood and our house had 4-5 ft of water in it from Clear Creek. That’s the flood that got me obsessed with meteorology and Mother Nature in general.

    Note- that house flooded anytime we had “flooding rains” but my dad got a hell of a deal on it and was also an operator at Himont at the time so he worked shift work. He would get the flood insurance money and do all the work himself because he built houses when he was younger. Profit!
     
  12. Ottomaton

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    Driving on San Filipe and Westheimer by the Galleria just now was surreal. The water has totally receded but there are parked cars splayed all over the road at odd angles.

    It looks like the set of a zombie movie.
     
  13. arkoe

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    I passed probably close to 20 stalled/abandoned cars on San Felipe.
     
  14. Amiga

    Amiga I get vaunted sacred revelations from social media
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    Tire
     
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    I guided my wife out of the med center by telephone. She was freaking out because the water was rising but thankfully after turning around a few times and using almeda we got her high and dry to SH 288.
     
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  16. LonghornFan

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    Same here! I had just graduated HS and remember watching all the footage on tv, the river overflowing and then the huge fires on the river. I probably still have the VHS tape channel 2 sold somewhere.

    I honestly do not remember much rain at all with Ike and I was in the eyewall. Typical hurricane rain but it didnt flood like Alicia did.
     
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  17. Bandwagoner

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    If you have to go through high water, get up a bunch of speed, throw the car in N turn key off and on again. float to low water. Start you engine after floating and drive off. It's super easy.
     
  18. Sajan

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    Dang, there's not even a mention of Houston or floods on CNN.

    2015 (memorial day)
    2016 (tax day)
    2017 (hurricane harvey)
    2018 (july 4th)
    2019 (tropical storm imelda)

    So..another one next year?
     
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  19. tmoney1101

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    I was 10 when this happened and was staying at a friends house. All I remember is the huge floating ant piles and I also saw his moms vagina. She was wearing a large night t shirt and I saw it while she was walking up the stairs. It was mesmerizing and was the first real life vag I’d ever seen. It was all down hill from there. What a storm.
     
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  20. The Hunted

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    What a story, Mark.
     

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