... and a followup to the post by rimrocker. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/env...appeared-california-bringing-havoc-rcna75942? Climate in Crisis A long-dormant lake has reappeared in California, bringing havoc along with it Months of atmospheric river storms have pummeled the area, which is home to crucial farmland. A historic snowpack in the mountains above the basin will make things worse.
One concern for Fire folks is that the runoff will cause all kinds of erosion problems on forest road networks and given the extent of the snowpack, repairs won't be able to start until late, late summer or fall and probably take several years to fix. This will be an access issue for 2024/2025/2026 fires.
Just saw a story about this on the morning news. Meanwhile it hit 88 degrees here in Minneapolis yesterday in Minneapolis. We had 8” of snow on April 1 and there might be snow Sunday..
Temps in the Hill Country have vacillated between 40 and 90 for the past month. My thermostat is pissed off, I don't know whether to turn the AC or heat on. Weird weather.
That is a **** load of water, holy ****. For comparison, the 100-year rainfall for 24 hr in Harris County would be 17 inches. It use to be 13 inches just a few years until recent data updated that. 25 inches in 7 hours is ****ing crazy.
I think TS Claudette dumped something like 40-50 inches of rain in a day back in the 70's somewhere around Houston. Parts of DFW got 15" in a few hours last year or the year before, I think, and I thought that was insane.
Makes me think of Onion Creek flood in 2013. Historic flash flood leaves devastation in Austin Rick Jervis USA TODAY The area most impacted by that flood and the subsequent one in 2015 caused a massive buyout of homes on the 25 year flood plain. The whole area is now the Onion Creek Greenbelt. There's a fairly large homeless presence there given the vacant camp ground space where homes used to exist. It is a concern for the City of Austin on how they'd communicate to people living there should another historic flood like in 2013 and 2015 occur again. I mean how do you alert and evacuate a homeless population living in an area that has had that type of water flowing through it from extreme flooding in enough time to save them? Austin floods leave more than 200 students homeless
https://abc13.com/timely-tropical-storm-claudette-rain-hurricanes/5413970/ HOUSTON, Texas -- Most people remember the biggest storms that have hit the greater Houston area, such as Harvey, Ike, Allison and Alicia. However, there was one storm that hit more than 40 years ago that didn't even rank as a hurricane, and still brought a record-breaking deluge to our area. Tropical Storm Claudette dropped a mind-boggling 42 inches of rain in just 24 hours over Alvin, Texas on July 24 and 25, 1979. On the ABC 13 web page, a video opened with news reports from that time.
Crazy. And I don't remember Jan Carson being on KTRK - just on KPRC, and I don't remember Doug Murphy, but Marvin, Dave, and Ed were always KTRK to me.
I think that Jan Carson left KTRK not too long after that. Shara Fryer replaced Jan at KTRK and eventually Gina Gaston replaced Shara.
I knew somebody that lived out that way.......maybe between Alvin and Manvel. I don't remember him having flood damage, but he was stuck at home for a while. There has been a huge amount of development out that way (Alvin, Manvel, Pearland etc) since then and to have a repeat performance of 40+ inches would cause quite a few problems.
Is that true for most of the area southeast of Houston? I always thought everything drained that way, so it would be even more of an issue nowadays. I was contemplating a move back not too long ago and pretty much ruled out areas like Pearland, Friendswood, Manvel, etc. due to potential crazy flooding.
