http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/...69&y=-95.53865&z=12&inc=true&rc=true&rfw=true The big intersections are the confluence points for the storm drains, they will get 3 feet deep. Give them time to drain if possible.
This is definitely the one that really seems to have been the definitive beginning of this cycle of storms camping out over Houston.
This is insane, about 6 cars stalled and flooded that I can see out my window, in the middle of my street on Richmond. One being an EMS. The water looks over 2 feet deep. How habitable is Houston if these types of floods are going to be a yearly recurrence?
Meanwhile, there are people who would rather invest hundreds of millions of dollars in finding something of purpose for the ASTRODOME (not sure what it is yet).... vs. funneling that money into better infrastructure to combat floods.
There is only so much you can do when you live on a flat coastal plain. It takes slopes to make water move and you can only go down to sea level. The bayou downtown is only about 50 feet above sea level and 50 miles from the Gulf. The average slope across Harris county is about 1 foot per 1000 feet. Less than a plumber would put on a drain pipe.
This one is unique (I think...) because it seems like the rain bands on the southern side of the storm are what nailed us. The bands on the northern side, which are usually the bad ones, hardly had any effect at all. I don't remember any other storm being like this. If I remember right, Harvey's bands were on the NE side and coming on shore, which is why they just kept coming and coming and coming. Those were the bands that did us in.
not really (I think) cooler air coming around the backside hits the saturated air mass and wedges up a squall line. It's still way worse on the 'Wet" side, there are just fewer people and less impervious cover over there. Our rain falls on a massive area of roofs and paved roadways.
I was being sarcastic but I do believe in city sharks and I do believe harden is out there crossing them up.
I have had it with these mother****ing sharks on these mother****ing freeways. Where is the white tiger at? He's on the loose too. Tilman about to cap somebody.
Where I work is very close to Hampshire. There was waist deep water across most of the site when we evacuated the place during Harvey. I was not there this time around however I have been on the phone several times with the people still stuck there. It is higher today than it was with Harvey. For Harvey we were somewhat prepared. We had the place shut down well before it got really bad and had the emergency ride out team in place. This time we were caught completely unprepared. The crew that worked the graveyard shift had to perform an emergency shutdown last night and is still stuck there.
