Yes, definitely. Going to flood for the next few days and the flood has already been very bad. This is the weirdest hurricane/flood I've ever experienced.
These rain bands forming to the SW will probably intensify at some point. The question is whether they intensify as they come into Brazoria/Fort Bend, or if they set up much further east. Right now, it looks like we might catch a break for a few hours. Hard to say.
https://media.click2houston.com/doc...evation0817_1503885595457_10381626_ver1.0.pdf Can someone tell me how to read this map? They said to look at the map to see if you are impacted, but I'm confused by it. Is it just anyone in any colored zone is going to flood? Or did they state that anyone of certain colors will be? Feel like we aren't getting nearly the specifics that they are giving out in Ft Bend.
I'm looking at this map and it doesn't tell me anything besides the ground elevation. According to where you got it from, what is it suppose to tell? If it's suppose to decode areas that are suppose to flood then they need to do a better job of distributing a map that actually tells you in the legend that this is what the data represents. If you look at the source, its just LiDAR 2008 data based on NVGD 88, 2001 adjustment, which are just ground elevations which doesn't tell you anything about actual flooding.
New post from Eric Berger. https://spacecityweather.com/harvey-late-night-water-levels-rising-across-houston-metro-area/
Right, it's just an elevation map, but that's all that's been given out and they haven't specifically said anything about how to interpret it. They are being extremely vague in Harris County and it's driving me nuts.
A previous map stated that anything 103' or below needs to be evacuated. 104' may need to be evacuated.
It's a poorly done map that unless it was explained to you, there is no way you can interpret that color areas means bad. I went ahead and listened to Jeff's conference on this and basically what I get from it is to get the hell out of the colored areas in the morning because it's going to get flooded worse due to the rate of flow being released being much less than the rate of flow coming into the reservoirs. What this map needs is contours, because otherwise the colored ground elevations don't mean anything because you have nothing to compare against.
I think the river estimates are for possible levee failure on Tuesday. That Judge set a mandatory evac for First Colony LID 1 and Fort Bend County LID 7. I don't know LID 1, but I do know that LID 7 is all of New Territory. Telfair is newer and has an extra levee, so I think it's safe. I think New Territory is waiting to make the announcement in the morning, because it's probably too late at night in the resident's association judgment to send a mass announcement now. If the estimates of the Brazos river rise don't change, I'm expecting the official word to be spread fast tomorrow.
