Over 6 days it dropped nearly 39 inches of rain in Houston. These forecasts are talking about 25 inches in the next 4 days (through Monday night)...but most of the forecasts don't have Harvey (and the rain associated with it) moving out of the area entirely until Wednesday/Thursday, at the earliest. My best guess is that, through Thursday, there will be spots that see more than 25"...there will be spots that see less....all in the Houston metro area.
This is what happens when the city lets developers run wild and annexes land later. There is no reason for Houston to flood so easily and for the roads to be as bad as they are. Look at Miami. Lower elevation all around (nothing over 70 ft, whereas the Houston metro goes up to 340ft above sea level). Because of better urban planning, Miami doesn't flood nearly as much or as bad, and their roads are smooth. If Houston just had better planning, if all of these unincorporated areas were cities with their own localized funding for roads, if they would have utilized the bayous more effectively, Houston wouldnt have gone through what it has the past two to three years with all the floods. Texas and Houston leaders being cheap and only thinking about business is to blame. Hopefully Harvey doesnt do too much harm.
Just wanted to thank you for introducing me to tropical tidbits...........I can have lots of fun there until my Internet goes out.
35" of rain is insane. That is more precipitation than Minneapolis gets on average a year. Stay safe everyone in Houston and along the coast.
Most of Houston is around 40' feet above sea level. Don't know where you got 340". Miami is around 15 feet. It's soils are sandy and the water quickly runs into to the nearby ocean, Houston is on clay soils, 40 miles from the ocean with an average slope of around 1 foot per 1000 feet so water doest really flow, it just sits ... that's what makes a bayou
Further Miami typically does not have huge storms that sit over the city on days end. They get a lot of heavy rains but it blows over pretty quickly. The Texas coast has been getting a lot more hurricanes than the Florida coast.
Thats not true either, other than the fact Tropical Storm Allison had an unusually log duration as will Harvey. https://www.accuweather.com/en/weat...-hurricanes-atlantic-tropical-season/48281135
Yeah. MIA has a geographical advantage being much more N-S than E-W and it's all along the ocean. There are also plenty waterways throughout the area that lead directly east and outbound. That said, there are many poor plannings around town.
Yep, Miami is considered to be one of the most vulnerable cities in US to a hurricane. It has been a long time since they have really been hit with a lot of storm surge and time makes people complacent.
Down to 950 mb pressure 945mb pressure is starting point for cat 4. Looks like 12 more hours for substantial growth. This storm is very Lin esque. Coming out of no where.
Allison was a trip, got lots of stories from that. I was in Argentina during the Hill Country flood of '07, Marble Falls area got 27" in 24 hours. Got to see lots of videos & pics from my people up here. My favorite was from my cousin, he drove out to an overlook at the upper dam and watched boats, boat docks, RVs and vehicles flying over the spillway.
