(08-27-2017 02:11 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 02:05 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 01:14 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Ben Noll‏Verified account @BenNollWeather 12h12 hours ago
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New ECMWF shows #Harvey moving back over the Gulf on Mon, restrengthening, then making a 2nd landfall near #Houston on Wed. Unthinkable.

I hope not.

I am wishing my kids had headed out instead of hunkering down. This weather forecast doesn't make me feel better.

Houston mayor said Friday no need to evacuate. How is your family doing now?

They are in Katy so northwest of Houston. No evacuation yet. They have prepared and said their neighbors are all home too. They still have power and no flooding. They have a two story so they can get up higher if flooding happens and have a jr high that is on higher ground that they can flee to on foot too. Nobody around them headed out. But everyone is nervous not knowing what might be coming.

Friends daughter lives in Lake Jackson. She is by herself and just 23 yrs old right out of college and. Ew to the area. They are really nervous.

(08-27-2017 02:24 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 02:11 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 02:05 PM)mptnstr@44 Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 01:14 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Ben Noll‏Verified account @BenNollWeather 12h12 hours ago
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New ECMWF shows #Harvey moving back over the Gulf on Mon, restrengthening, then making a 2nd landfall near #Houston on Wed. Unthinkable.

I hope not.

I am wishing my kids had headed out instead of hunkering down. This weather forecast doesn't make me feel better.

Houston mayor said Friday no need to evacuate. How is your family doing now?

They are in Katy so northwest of Houston. No evacuation yet. They have prepared and said their neighbors are all home too. They still have power and no flooding. They have a two story so they can get up higher if flooding happens and have a jr high that is on higher ground that they can flee to on foot too. Nobody around them headed out. But everyone is nervous not knowing what might be coming.

Friends daughter lives in Lake Jackson. She is by herself and just 23 yrs old right out of college and. Ew to the area. They are really nervous.

OK so far so good! Hope nothing happens in Katy.

Evan Smith‏Verified account @evanasmith 53m53 minutes ago
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Via @abc13houston reporter @FotiABC13: This is a runway at @HobbyAirport #holycrap

This is two blocks away from me, between Woodway and Memorial Drive on Chimney Rock. Buffalo Bayou runs there.



This is on Voss, between Woodway and Memorial. Buffalo Bayou also runs there. Very prominent area.




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White Oak Bayou in the Timbergrove Area..








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This morning Rice Blvd. in Bellaire was a calf deep stream with water lapping well into the yards.

My sister in Friendswood got a water evacuation and is in a shelter and is thankful her family and pets are all still ok. She has lost all 3 cars. Remains to be seen how bad her flooded house will be damaged. Her Mother-in-law also got a water evacuation.

My wife has been in touch with people all day. Most everybody else is stranded by flooded roads, but their house is still dry.

Sewer systems may be at risk. They told people in West University Place to limit flushing as they were at capacity this morning.

(08-27-2017 02:55 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  This is two blocks away from me, between Woodway and Memorial Drive on Chimney Rock. Buffalo Bayou runs there.



This is on Voss, between Woodway and Memorial. Buffalo Bayou also runs there. Very prominent area.




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I worry about Buffalo Bayou now that the Army Corps indicated that they will be forced to start releasing water from the Barker and Addicks Reservoirs to relieve pressure.

(08-27-2017 09:10 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 08:57 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  No flooding in my area, but other areas are pretty bad. Girlfriend's friend's family in Dickinson, south of Houston, already got 4ft of water in their house


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what's the word on league city??? any idea???

As of right now, League City is fine. My sister just drove around during a lull and could get around everywhere between 146 and I-45. But 146 and I-45 access roads are flooded. And Clear Lake and Clear Creek are over their banks, so it will get worse with more rain.

This is really getting bad. I used to drive through the Addicks reservoir on my way to work every day, down Eldridge Road. It's hard to imagine that it's full, wow!

I'm still dry. But man, oh man, earlier tonight was a bit scary. The worst of the rain came in about 9pm. Must have gotten 4 inches in an hour. The water rose 4 feet in less than 30 minutes. Probably just street flooding. Stopped right at the door. Then the rain suddenly stopped and the water went away.

(08-27-2017 08:53 PM)PlainTiger Wrote:  This is really getting bad. I used to drive through the Addicks reservoir on my way to work every day, down Eldridge Road. It's hard to imagine that it's full, wow!

After Alicia, it was full for about 6 weeks and that road was closed.

NPR article has rainfall totals from different measuring points around the metro. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...e-to-texas From 16-29 inches over 2 days. Read somewhere else Baytown got 24 inches just on Sunday. That is half the average annual rainfall in one day. With more to come.

That picture in the article is close to where one of my sisters lives. There were 3 feet of water in her house when they waded/rafted to shelter yesterday. Their cars were up to the windows. My brother-in-law commented, "I think our next vacation will be to the desert." They had a one story house, so they have pretty much lost everything.

(08-28-2017 12:51 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  I'm still dry. But man, oh man, earlier tonight was a bit scary. The worst of the rain came in about 9pm. Must have gotten 4 inches in an hour. The water rose 4 feet in less than 30 minutes. Probably just street flooding. Stopped right at the door. Then the rain suddenly stopped and the water went away.

Glad you are still dry and safe.

(08-28-2017 09:03 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 08:53 PM)PlainTiger Wrote:  This is really getting bad. I used to drive through the Addicks reservoir on my way to work every day, down Eldridge Road. It's hard to imagine that it's full, wow!

After Alicia, it was full for about 6 weeks and that road was closed.

I lived there from 1991-2000, and I never saw it cover Eldridge. I know it covered Highway 6 for about a week one time.

(08-28-2017 10:09 AM)PlainTiger Wrote:  

(08-28-2017 09:03 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-27-2017 08:53 PM)PlainTiger Wrote:  This is really getting bad. I used to drive through the Addicks reservoir on my way to work every day, down Eldridge Road. It's hard to imagine that it's full, wow!

After Alicia, it was full for about 6 weeks and that road was closed.

I lived there from 1991-2000, and I never saw it cover Eldridge. I know it covered Highway 6 for about a week one time.

Maybe it was Highway 6. It was one of those roads crossing the reservoir.

Parents in Brazoria County are fine.... Daughter and Sister in SW Houston had to be evacuated by boat.

(08-28-2017 12:51 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  I'm still dry. But man, oh man, earlier tonight was a bit scary. The worst of the rain came in about 9pm. Must have gotten 4 inches in an hour. The water rose 4 feet in less than 30 minutes. Probably just street flooding. Stopped right at the door. Then the rain suddenly stopped and the water went away.

Hope you stay dry, but sounds like its time to make sure you have a bag packed with irreplaceables so you don't have to do it at the last second. (in the old days-like 10 years ago-you would want pictures as well as documents-now I guess you can copy it all on a thumb drive).