Well then, you are a cat six hurricane, or perhaps a six cat cyclone.
Hurricane Harvey
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I have contacted some Ag Teachers I know in Southeastern Texas. Hopefully I will be able to hook up with an FFA Chapter down there and get my kids to help out anyway we can. I am not against donating money directly to the Red Cross, but I like to know how we are helping.
there was a map showing that fewer than 1/6th of the people in the areas affected have flood insurance so there's that too.
I'm really not sure on how long it'll take water to recede. Part of the problem is that the Houston area is very flat so it's not flowing downstream/out at the rate it might somewhere else. I imagine they'll have stagnant water for quite a while.
JFC don't some of these people watch T.V. The weather channel has been talking of feet of rain since Wednesday morning. Then the mayor told people not to evacuate, but stay in their homes. One dumb ### said we didn't know it was going to be this bad! Wife's niece and her family live in League City(ISU grads) and said they were going to ride it out.SMH
Mayor was in a tough spot because putting 6 million people on the road hours before landfall wasn't going to go well either.
To be fair, we had people on this board, after the hurricane had already hit, saying 'wow, yet another overrated storm'.
If people who are seeing everything even after this has hit are dismissing the storm, easy to see how people go 'i didnt know it was going to be this bad'.
That is why you are elected to handle the tough situations. He could have ordered people to at least start evacuations, specially those areas that have are prone to flooding.
THe entire town is flooding, along with nearby areas. I don't see how evacuating 5-10M ppl works. Where do they go? Do they leave last week based on a forecast? Once it started raining, it's too late, you can't have the highways as parking lots.
Potentially more lives will be saved by 6 million people not clogging the highways when the storm hits. It's a tough decision that he had to make, but I think he made the right one. There was a large amount of people that died in New Orleans from that. About 80 of the 140 people that died during Hurricane Rita died from non-hurricane related things, like heat exhaustion from being stuck on the highway, accidents, a bus caught fire, etc.
The storm intensified so suddenly I just don't know how it could have been adequately prepared for. It was a tropical depression Wednesday night. That's 48 hours before it landed. The models weren't even able to keep up. By the time a new one came out, it was already at a lower pressure and stronger intensity.
the other problem was that they DID want people on the coast to evacuate and that means a lot of people on the roads already heading north.
CycloneErik
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I think the only way to do a mass evacuation would be area by area or something like that.
It's still way too many people on the highways, and you'd have to start days ahead of time, and I don't know where those people go, but a phased evacuation would be the only way even to attempt that mission.
It's still way too many people on the highways, and you'd have to start days ahead of time, and I don't know where those people go, but a phased evacuation would be the only way even to attempt that mission.
I lot of the flooded areas are likely outside of mapped floodplains. Reminder that flood insurance isn't just an add on for people living in designated floodplains. Okay, not for me personally as I live at the top of a hill, but there are a lot of homeowners who think they are not at risk because they aren't next to a river floodplain or something and just focus on overbank river flood threats.
Here's a snapshot of the center metro mapping.
They just mentioned on the news as well that flooding is more likely in areas like Houston that have less vegetation to soak up water due to all of the development/concrete.
Obviously this magnitude of water from Harvey is going to flood pretty much anywhere; just thinking of how a 'flood plain' is even more risky when it's made worse by population growth.
