Hurricane Harvey

[Rod Sheridan]

Hi, reading the news reports regarding hurricane Harvey.

Hoping all my virtual forum friends in the path of the storm stay safe.

It's hard for me to imagine a storm like that, we don't get severe storms where I live normally..............Regards, Rod.

[lowell holmes]

In Galveston county at 7:30 AM there has been no flooding ay this time. The wind is gusty.
There is rain. My son in Hitchcock lives near the water. They have no issues either. You can see the
Inter-coastal waterway from his balcony.

[Malcolm McLeod]

I saw the Galveston mayor's press conference yesterday (...seems like this ain't his first rodeo!); very impressive knowledge and planning effort. I hope it bears fruit.

He commented on an old adage, "hunker down for wind, run from water." I'm seeing predictions of as much as 40" of rain by Thursday, so I hope this doesn't get worse before it gets better.

Be careful out there!

[Jim Becker]

I'm hoping for the best for all the folks who live in that very large, affected area. The challenge with this storm isn't going to be the initial push, it's going to be the many days of rain that in some places may get close to as much as 3 feet of precipitation. That doesn't bode well if it holds true.

[lowell holmes]

This is not the first rodeo for any of us in Galveston County. We live about 20 miles inland.
We are experiencing occasional rain, but no wind. I really don't expect much out of this.
The real danger is that tornado's can crop up in an instant. We have never experienced one.

[Bert Kemp]

I hope everybody is safe and dry. Thoughts a prayers to everybody in the path of this storm.

[Pat Barry]

Galveston must have been hit hard Lowell. I hope you and your family are safe.

[Erik Loza]

One of my colleagues has a family house in the dunes of Port Aransas. They boarded it up last week but I think he will not actually know if it's still there for several days. The areas may still be inaccessible.

Erik

[mark kosse]

Not flooded, but power is out. It was 23 days wo power last time... Hope not this time.

[Paul McGaha]

Thoughts and prayers to the people in Texas.

It must be extremely difficult.

PHM

[Mike Henderson]

I hope everyone is safe. If you're in the area and have Internet access, please report on what the situation is.

Mike

[Jim Becker]

One of my colleagues has a family house in the dunes of Port Aransas. They boarded it up last week but I think he will not actually know if it's still there for several days. The areas may still be inaccessible.

That seems to be one of the hardest hit towns, based on news stories I've seen. Terrible destruction...

[Matt Day]

Anyone heard from Lowell?

[Malcolm McLeod]

Anyone heard from Lowell?

...He is probably without power, but hopefully not flooded. In this case, his proximity to the beach may be a good thing, as the water has somewhere to go close-by.


Houston area missed the wind's 'bull's-eye' by about 200 miles (eye hit ~Rockport/Port Aransas), but reports are accurate that they caught biblical rain amounts. (This morning, I heard 11 trillion gallons of rain in Texas so far; >400 billion in Harris county (Houston).) And now Corps of Engineers has had to open flood gates upstream of Houston to relieve pressure on dams.

I spent yesterday trying to remotely shepherd my brother and his family out of west Houston and up to the north. FYI - Life360 is a really nice cell phone app to have in such situations.

Update: News now report Dickinson under evac order; clearly I was wrong about flooding. Lowell, I hope you and your's are safe.

[Jim Laumann]

My younger brother lives in Corpus Christi - he called Sunday night to indicate that he and his wife are fine (they got out in advance), but that their house had taken a hit - part of the roof got tore off, and their living room had been exposed to all the rain. He had tarp-ed the roof, but didn't know how long the tarp would stand up to the wind. The connection we had was poor, so I wasn't able to understand much more than that.