Hurricane Harvey

[Lucille]

I was just fixing to move away from the coast to a more inland Texas location, thought I would never have to deal with another hurricane. I hate them, so much work, so much worry.
It appears that there will be serious flooding in my area. Here it is August in Texas and I will likely lose electricity and it will be hotter than you know where until they get it fixed.


On the other hand, I have nice neighbors, bottled water, flashlights, and some freshly made tollhouse cookie brownies to share if we all decide to watch movies until the electricity goes out.

Hopefully it won't be too bad

 

[WebSlave]

When we had power out here for four days, the one thing I would have KILLED to have had on hand were one or more battery powered fans. We just could not sleep at night because of the heat. Could not open the windows, because that would have just made it worse to allow all that humid air inside.

I tried using the UPS systems for the computer gear with some regular AC fans, but that didn't work for very long. So I found one that is supposed to last 40 hours on 6 D sized batteries, if I remember correctly, and I bought a couple, just in case.

Hope things don't get rough for you.

 

[Robert Walker]

I will likely lose electricity

We just could not sleep at night because of the heat.

Generator = your new best friend. $300-$800 for powering fans, saving your refrigerated goods and sanity.

 

[bcr229]

I'm guessing right now you couldn't find a generator for sale in most stores along the gulf coast.

I have one, 6500W, which was a lifesaver after we had a summer storm in July a few years back that clobbered our power for four days with temps over 100*F afterward. We couldn't run the A/C but having cold drinks and fans made it bearable - not to mention we didn't lose any perishable food.

Bear in mind if you do run a generator it has to be guarded 24/7 or it will end up stolen quickly.

 

[WebSlave]

Looks like it is developing a pretty distinct eye....

Batten down the hatches....

 

[WebSlave]

Looks like they are predicting this to get pretty serious.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NO8WEguY8o

 

[Lucille]

It does look serious. I'm glad now that I had some extremely expensive tree work done in the back yard, having a large dying tree that overhung the house taken down.
I always feel sorry for the dogs during hurricanes, the forceful winds and rain must be scary to them but they still have to go out there a couple times a day.
Of course they may be happy later if the electricity goes out because then they will get to have all the tasty meats and casseroles in the deep freeze.
Fortunately I learned to can last year so there is quite a bit of stored canned food that will be fine as long as the house is not flattened by some neighbor's tree.
It is literally a matter of weeks before I had planned to move, I had hoped to never deal with another hurricane but as they say, never say never.

 

[Robert Walker]

Of course they may be happy later if the electricity goes out because then they will get to have all the tasty meats and casseroles in the deep freeze.

You can find an upside to most situations if you look, this is one of them for the dogs
Good luck Lucille!

 

[WebSlave]

Yeah, definitely looking like a huge rainmaker for coastal Texas....

 

[WebSlave]

Well, this could be an interesting wrinkle concerning this storm...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU6R9gC_u_A

 

[bcr229]

Galveston Pyramid Cam

San Jacinto Monument Cam

 

[WebSlave]

Now this is what you call a very well defined eyewall for a hurricane.

 

[WebSlave]

BULLETIN
Hurricane Harvey Intermediate Advisory Number 22A
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092017
700 PM CDT Fri Aug 25 2017

...EYE OF CATEGORY 4 HARVEY APPROACHING THE COAST BETWEEN PORT
ARANSAS AND PORT O'CONNOR TEXAS...
...CATASTROPHIC FLOODING EXPECTED DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL AND STORM
SURGE...

SUMMARY OF 700 PM CDT...0000 UTC...INFORMATION
----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...27.8N 96.8W
ABOUT 35 MI...55 KM E OF CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS
ABOUT 50 MI...80 KM SSW OF PORT OCONNOR TEXAS
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...130 MPH...215 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 325 DEGREES AT 8 MPH...13 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...941 MB...27.79 INCHES

Yikes! Category 4!

 

[Lucille]

This is definitely not going to be a fun weekend.

 

[Lucille]

With all the hype from the news people I expected a lot more adverse weather by now. So far there is a bit of lightning, some rain and light wind, no flooding anywhere I can see in my neighborhood. So not a big deal yet.

 

[WebSlave]

Hopefully that will be the worst that you go through with this. How far are you from the actual eye of the storm?

 

[Lucille]

Three hours later, about the same, just some rain which is draining off well. The winds are not high at all. I am about 160 miles from Rockport, the little city where Harvey made landfall.

 

[DLenaRuth999s]

You okay? Sending prayers your way.

 

[Lucille]

Thank you I am fine. I don't know whether in the next few days it might start to rain or bring other issues but as of now it hasn't rained for hours, the wind is minimal. From media reports this storm was going to be a deadly tiger, so far it has been a baby kitten here.

 

[WebSlave]

Well, I hope they just blew this all out of proportion. Although I have to admit, looking at the weather radar, I guess I was expecting this would be pretty bad too. Maybe they just don't make hurricanes like they used to?

I really do hope this turns out to be a nothingburger. But in their shoes, I guess I would have over-hyped it too, rather than down playing the danger.