From top to bottom of that shot it's a four lane road, bike path, bayou, bike path, another four lane road all under. The concrete strip at the very bottom you can see is a walkway between some apartment buildings.
Hurricane Harvey
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From top to bottom of that shot it's a four lane road, bike path, bayou, bike path, another four lane road all under. The concrete strip at the very bottom you can see is a walkway between some apartment buildings.
I have a friend who is a meteorologist in Davenport (ISU grad) who, via Facebook, is wondering aloud whether Houston will even be habitable when all is said and done. Now, he's likey overexaggerating, but saying something like that gives one an idea of just how bad it currently is and how much worse it's likely going to get.
Yeah I've seen posts from local police trying to tell people that if they need to go up not to go into the attic but instead go out onto the roof. And if for some reason you do go into the attic bring an axe or chainsaw.
Things you wouldn't normally even think of
Aren't there STILL parts of New Orleans that aren't habitable?
Just goes to show you, once the rain stops, most of America will forget about it and move on while millions are still trying to pick up the pieces of their lives.
That's because they have water reaching the second level. If you go into your attic you might not be able to get out the way you came in so the chainsaw through the roof would be your only option. Plus if you are in the attic a rescuer will not know you are there.
Someone I do business with down there is located just off the Sam Houston. Not good. Will be back no doubt......but any storms from here on out will seem like a sprinkle. Some weather people down there are keeping fingers crossed that the trough currently over the midwest dropping south will force some drier air around the southwest side of the circulation so to help shear it out and force the main axis of moisture east into Louisiana and Mississippi. Nothing against those people but enough is enough.
and I'll point out that that is exactly what the NWS was saying prior to landfall. And it looks like that's going to be anything but "hype".
well in my opinion NO shouldn't even be the size that it is. It's extremely dumb to build a city that has portions that are constructed below sea level. Plus the effects it has on the wetlands and ecosystem are costly. It would be for the best if they let NO shrink and restore the protective wetlands instead.
Oh wow, that photo of the elderly sitting shoulder deep in that nursing home is hard to see. Good that they were rescued but it still really makes it real.
I don't know if "not habitable" are the right words for those parts of New Orleans you are refering to. I helped with cleanup in the Ninth Ward a year after Katrina. While parts were total devastation, even a year later, if you bulldozed the entire area and put up new development (or, in certain areas we worked, if you simply refurbished certain areas that were salvageable), you could live there. What I'm getting from my friend's Facebook post is, if he's not overexaggerating, this storm is such that it will alter the greater Houston area in such a way that certain areas will never be habitable again regardless of a cleanup. Keep in mind the flooding in Houston right now is as bad as the flooding ever was in New Orleans after Katrina - and they're supposed to get another 50 inches on top of that.
maybe you don't have the info, but can you explain more on what exactly will make them permanently uninhabitable?
I don't have that info. I'm simply guessing perhaps the implication is the flooding of this storm changes the geography of the Houston area permanently. Perhaps like standing water that never goes away, etc. The bottom line is nobody knows because, outside of southeast Asia which deals with these kinds of storms on a yearly basis, nobody knows what long-term effects this kind of storm will do to the geography of the area in which it hits.
I imagine a lot of land that gets washed away and flows out with the floodwaters as well.
So, stream of consciousness thoughts...
1) After the majority of the rain is finished, how long will it take for the waters to recede?
2) I see the pleas for donations to the Red Cross, which, I think, mostly helps private citizens. I'm wondering about damage done to government entities/properties and businesses, and how much it will cost to fix those places. Roads, highways, and interstates. Sidewalks, public parks. Schools. Federal/state/local government buildings. Libraries. Grocery stores and gas stations. Radio and TV stations. (There's a tweet I saw early this morning from a meteorologist at KHOU where the flooding was coming into the ground floor of the station, and he said it rose a foot in 15 minutes)
That's what's boggling my mind right now.
1) After the majority of the rain is finished, how long will it take for the waters to recede?
2) I see the pleas for donations to the Red Cross, which, I think, mostly helps private citizens. I'm wondering about damage done to government entities/properties and businesses, and how much it will cost to fix those places. Roads, highways, and interstates. Sidewalks, public parks. Schools. Federal/state/local government buildings. Libraries. Grocery stores and gas stations. Radio and TV stations. (There's a tweet I saw early this morning from a meteorologist at KHOU where the flooding was coming into the ground floor of the station, and he said it rose a foot in 15 minutes)
That's what's boggling my mind right now.
