TJones Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 I heard the Northside is pretty much closed down now ? Anyone over there that can confirm. We are having a big break right now in Katy, but I can see it up there on the Northside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trae Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Yeah, it is letting up here in Katy now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Just a little over a inch of rain in my rain gauge, but the lightning has been real bad in Spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownWxBoy Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 We should be more worried about Hurricane Dean... still a long way off but Texas is in its path. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 From the 38th floor of the AIG building (Allen Pkwy and Waugh) facing northeast, Buffalo Bayou is out if its banks but mostly inside the running path. If we get much more rain, it looks like it would spill over first at Allen Pkwy and Taft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Attention fellow Near East Enders! Just in!With the amount of rain that has fallen in the East End and will continuethis afternoon, we want to keep abreast of the conditions in theneighborhood. The Flood Warning has been extended to 5:00 p.m.Braes Bayou is above flood stage. Water is currently on N. MacGregor fromSylvan to Wildwood.Before noon water was already over the frontage roads of I-610 from 288past Cullen. Five inches of rain was reported in two hours at I-610 andI-45.There are reports of water on portions of Leeland and other streetsheading to and from downtown.High water on Harrisburg,Canal, & Navigation, especially near the Maximus Coffee Factory.High water in Glenbrook Valley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 there are also two building collapses - one at the Randall's at Clear Lake City Blvd./SpaceCenter Blvd., and the other at Maxwell House (Maximus) on Harrisburgthe HPD/HFD active incident report is looooong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProHouston Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 We should be more worried about Hurricane Dean... still a long way off but Texas is in its path. These storms never stay on track. No way it hits Houston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted August 16, 2007 Author Share Posted August 16, 2007 Why do you say no way?It's not even close enough for the models to predict where it's going, besides towards the gulf. Anything could happen, but don't say there's no way, there's always a chance. In this case, there's a higher chance it'll hit Texas than Florida or the east coat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProHouston Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Why do you say no way?It's not even close enough for the models to predict where it's going, besides towards the gulf. Anything could happen, but don't say there's no way, there's always a chance. In this case, there's a higher chance it'll hit Texas than Florida or the east coat.I say that because it's currently projected to go towards us or S. Texas. I think early projections are rarely accurate, therefore I believe this one will change course and hit another location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownWxBoy Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 These storms never stay on track. No way it hits Houston. Well, actually, the exact forecast track right now takes it into the lower Texas coast... near Brownsville or Corpus. Of course, it's still several days out and this will most likely change at least a bit. The thing is, though, the forecast track has been slowly shifting northward each day... bringing it closer to Houston. It's most likely going to make landfall somewhere between northern Mexico and Louisiana... Texas lies in the middle of that. At this point chances of Houston taking a DIRECT hit are low... but those chances are slowly increasing and it needs to be watched. I am sure if you told people in Galveston and Corpus Christi in the summer of 2004 that there was a chance they would see a white Christmas that year, they could have said you were crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 there are also two building collapses - one at the Randall's at Clear Lake City Blvd./SpaceCenter Blvd., and the other at Maxwell House (Maximus) on Harrisburgevidently there was a death at the randalls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trae Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 About Dean, I doubt it happens. I remember in sixth grade (2002), when Lili was coming towards us. It was a Cat 4 in the Gulf, then 12 hours before landfall, it went down to a Cat 1/Tropical Storm, and shifted northward into Lake Charles. Dean may be the big one, but I hope it doesn't happen. It would be CNN/Fox News/MSNBC/all local channel Dean coverage 24/7 like with Rita. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted August 16, 2007 Author Share Posted August 16, 2007 Here's the latest model showing the probability of tropical storm winds in the next 5 days.Apparently it wont let me post an image with a + in the URL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 High water on Harrisburg,Canal, & Navigation, especially near the Maximus Coffee Factory.I received a report from someone in the field. Lockwood and Canal east of Lockwood are dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownWxBoy Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 About Dean, I doubt it happens. I remember in sixth grade (2002), when Lili was coming towards us. It was a Cat 4 in the Gulf, then 12 hours before landfall, it went down to a Cat 1/Tropical Storm, and shifted northward into Lake Charles. Dean may be the big one, but I hope it doesn't happen. It would be CNN/Fox News/MSNBC/all local channel Dean coverage 24/7 like with Rita.You can't compare storms like that... that's just sounds stupid. Every storm is different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trae Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Yeah that is true. Every storm is different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDeb Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 About Dean, I doubt it happens. I remember in sixth grade (2002), when Lili was coming towards us. It was a Cat 4 in the Gulf, then 12 hours before landfall, it went down to a Cat 1/Tropical Storm, and shifted northward into Lake Charles. Dean may be the big one, but I hope it doesn't happen. It would be CNN/Fox News/MSNBC/all local channel Dean coverage 24/7 like with Rita.Lili was headed straight for Lafayette, LA (I lived there at the time), for at least a day, maybe more. And it plowed right over us in the morning as a Cat 2. It did weaken over night from a Cat 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted August 16, 2007 Author Share Posted August 16, 2007 I say that because it's currently projected to go towards us or S. Texas. I think early projections are rarely accurate, therefore I believe this one will change course and hit another location.Yes, early predictions are not always accurate, but that's no reason to be certain it's going to go somewhere else. Predictions are based on probabilities, and its more probable that it will hit the gulf coast. It's always possible, though less likely, that it will go somewhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westguy Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Here's a page with a lot of neat animations: link.Some of these models are used by the NHC to forecast hurricanes. CMC is Canadian, and it is kind of a joke. Don't look at GFDL, because it's for the faint of heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trae Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Lili was headed straight for Lafayette, LA (I lived there at the time), for at least a day, maybe more. And it plowed right over us in the morning as a Cat 2. It did weaken over night from a Cat 4.Well, I remember being in sixth grade, and my Science teacher (we were all talking about hurricanes at the time), showed us Lili on her computer screen, and it looked like it was blowing right to Lake Charles/Houston, but it shifted north a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownWxBoy Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 As for Dean, it's looking like (and this is a big area b/c it's still a week out) Brownsville to New Orleans for the best chance of landfall... of course Houston is right in the middle of that. Note... it's always better for a storm to go inland east of you as opposed to west of you... the east side of the storm is where the strongest winds and heaviest and most widespread rains are b/c that's where the wind and moisture is coming inland off of the Gulf due to the southerly and easterly winds. Examples...Hurricane Rita... went inland just east of Houston and while we saw some good winds b/c it was such a strong storm... we didn't see much rain. Tropical Storm Erin... much weaker... went inland just northeast of Corpus... further distance from us than Rita... and look at all of the flooding we got in Houston. We actually got a lot more rain from Erin than Corpus b/c they were on the west side of the storm... by just a few miles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trae Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Imagine if Dean made landfall where Erin made landfall. That would be a ____ing disaster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownWxBoy Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Imagine if Dean made landfall where Erin made landfall. That would be a ____ing disaster!Yes, it would. It's much better it goes east of us into Louisiana than into Corpus or the Matagorda Bay area. They were just talking on the news on how it was a beautiful day in Corpus today... and the center went inland just northeast of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deut28Thirteen Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 As for Dean, it's looking like (and this is a big area b/c it's still a week out) Brownsville to New Orleans for the best chance of landfall... of course Houston is right in the middle of that. Your right about not knowing where it will hit. Because of Katrina every one is all jumpy and getting ready for the worst. That could be a good thing just in case it is real bad or it will be Rita all over again. Alot of the people that left went towards it instead of away because Rita turned NW before land fall. Many people that need to leave could not because of all the traffic by those who should have stayed put. Houston should prepare but not overeact like we did with Rita and we did a god job with Erin, but I still dont get why people think they can drive through a flooded underpass and/or freeways knowing how Houston floods. If dean did hit where Erin did it would be bad. Look what it did to us. It will be worse that what allison did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HtownWxBoy Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Your right about not knowing where it will hit. Because of Katrina every one is all jumpy and getting ready for the worst. That could be a good thing just in case it is real bad or it will be Rita all over again. Alot of the people that left went towards it instead of away because Rita turned NW before land fall. Many people that need to leave could not because of all the traffic by those who should have stayed put. Houston should prepare but not overeact like we did with Rita and we did a god job with Erin, but I still dont get why people think they can drive through a flooded underpass and/or freeways knowing how Houston floods. If dean did hit where Erin did it would be bad. Look what it did to us. It will be worse that what allison did.We should ALWAYS prepare for the worst. People need to know that the ONLY people who should evacuate are those that are told to...those who are in the path of possible storm surge (flooding caused by water from the Gulf being pushed inland from the wind). The problem w/ Rita was that so many people evacuated that did not have to. People who live right along the coast also need to know that they are going to have to evacuate even when, in the end most times, not much happens. By the time you know exactly where the center of a hurricane is going to make landfall... it's too late to evacuate the coast. Don't like it, don't live on the coast or stay and risk your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Marty Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 I keep seeing the car on ch 13 with water up to the roof and the windshield wipers are still working, They should make all windshield wiper motor this good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westguy Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 During Rita, people were trying to take all family cars along with them. I didn't get to see that nightmare spectacle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumapayam Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 I keep seeing the car on ch 13 with water up to the roof and the windshield wipers are still working, They should make all windshield wiper motor this good.Why do people still try to go into deep water. When will they ever learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 I keep seeing the car on ch 13 with water up to the roof and the windshield wipers are still working, They should make all windshield wiper motor this good.Yeah! That was kind of cool! You could see the wipers flipping to and fro and water splashing around. Neato.Here's an idea: Build a water/car mobile for the Art Car Parade. Bet it would sell. Sounds silly but it would take off. We have plenty of designers on this forum that could draw up some ideas. Serious. Remember that old stock footage of the Volkswagon that becomes a spped boat? Cool.Try this on for size!http://www.metacafe.com/watch/625919/awesome_boatmobile/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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