Hurricane Harvey

[ray1970]

Call ahead. With all of the people displaced, your options for a hotel are likely pretty thin.

Eh. I wasn't planning on staying at Motel 6. Hopefully the places with the $250 a night rooms will have a vacancy. If not I'll just stay with my dad.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Eh. I wasn't planning on staying at Motel 6. Hopefully the places with the $250 a night rooms will have a vacancy. If not I'll just stay with my dad.

I suspect everything available is going to be filled to capacity. If your company is smart, they should cancel training in Houston until they have a chance to recover a bit.

[BladesNBarrels]

I suspect everything available is going to be filled to capacity. If your company is smart, they should cancel training in Houston until they have a chance to recover a bit.

Stayed in Mobile, AL, 7 months after Katrina, at a Ramada Inn.
It was rated 4 Diamonds in AAA book when we had to make the unplanned stop due to lights failing on a trailer I was towing.
Since the publication of the AAA Guide, it had been designated a FEMA emergency housing facility and 60% of the rooms were allocated to Flood Victims.
Entire families, 4-7 people, were living in each of the rooms without kitchenettes, etc.
They had been there since Katrina hit and adapted to grilling in the parking lot, gathering around a fire in a stock tank, and sharing stories.
It was no longer a 4 Diamond hotel, but it did provide a glimpse into the lives of the displaced victims.

[ray1970]

I suspect everything available is going to be filled to capacity. If your company is smart, they should cancel training in Houston until they have a chance to recover a bit.

Got in touch with the lady in charge of enrollment for the training. She said everything is just fine where they are and the class is still a go. She said to go ahead and book my flight and hotel. Thinking about canceling anyways. Nothing to do with the hurricane but I have a ton of work to get done before the end of October so my time might be better spent working.

[OtterbatHellcat]

I think Irma is going to make Harvey look like just a bad down pour.

[Gman]

I think Irma is going to make Harvey look like just a bad down pour.

Nah, the High pressure system that held Harvey in place for so long made for a really bad situation. At least Irma will move along.

[Great-Kazoo]

Nah, the High pressure system that held Harvey in place for so long made for a really bad situation. At least Irma will move along.

Up the rest of the east coast.

[68Charger]

I think Irma is going to make Harvey look like just a bad down pour.

For heavily populated areas like Houston- there wasn't wind damage... but calling it a "bad down pour" is a gross understatement.. it was an EPIC downpour- 40-52" of rain in the most concentrated areas.
All-time continental U.S. tropical cyclone rain records were broken.
The areal coverage of locations picking up at least 20 inches of rain was greater than the state of West Virginia, while the 40-inch-plus zone was larger than Delaware.
Source: https://weather.com/storms/hurricane...siana-arkansas

Nah, the High pressure system that held Harvey in place for so long made for a really bad situation. At least Irma will move along.

^^^^ THIS!!
look at Harvey's storm track- it made landfall at Rockport- there was significant wind damage in that area- the high school collapsed for one.

it headed NNW, then went around in a circle, then headed back out to the Gulf, picked up MORE moisture, headed for Houston, then before landfall went further out to get MORE moisture, and eventually made landfall again just East of the TX-LA border.

The description above doesn't really show the carnage... will try to post a huge GIF showing the radar for 7 days- but I'll post a link, too...



http://andrew.rsmas.miami.edu/bmcnol...7_regional.gif
If you watch that, you'll get an idea why Houston is so flooded
Parts of that area got OVER 50 INCHES of rain in that 7 day period... and there were over 3600 Sq Miles that got 40+ inches of rain, over 11,000 Sq Miles with 30+, and nearly 29,000 Sq Miles with 20+ inches of rain


Another good article (from East Coast source)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...s.html?mcubz=0

Up the rest of the east coast.

All the above being said- Irma is also set to be a possibly historic hurricane... maybe those that predicted the Solar eclipse was an indicator of the end of the world weren't so wrong...

[Gman]

All the rain that Hurricane Harvey dumped on Texas and Louisiana, in one massive water drop

It’s all because over six days, 27 trillion gallons of water fell over Texas and Louisiana, as Ryan Maue, a meteorologist with WeatherBell, told CNN. (The calculation is simple, he says on Twitter: It’s depth of rain multiplied by the number of square miles covered.) That’s one million gallons of water for nearly every person who lives in Texas.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Concise stats, thank you. In no way would I have tried to say that Harvey "wasn't extremely destructive or unique".

My comment about Irma was more about it's category 5 condition and incredible sustained wind speeds at the time of the post. I was envisioning 180 mph eyewall winds devastating both sides of Fla. all the way up the state....and the 20-30 ft high storm surge they were talking about at the time as well.

Irma has since decreased it's intensity, for now. Unfortunately we're going to find out how much damage it will have produced. I pray for the upcoming victims in Fla.......right along with our friends in Tx. in their aftermath.