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Ed The Hurricane [or Tropical Storm] Harvey Thread

Keep your head down, all forum Texans. Hope you're all OK through this one.
 
William Parcher said:
Strengthening Harvey forecast to slam Texas coast as first major hurricane in U.S. since 2005

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...cane-and-stall
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Trebuchet said:
Washington Post? Fake News!
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Well, some years ago the Post had an article about a groundbreaking for the Astrodome, back when the Astros were still the Colt .45s (and the groundbreaking was done with actual .45s rather than shovels):

"On this day in 1962, in this dry, dusty town in the middle of Texas,..."

That was pretty funny to read, having sweated through many Houston summers, been bitten by many Houston mosquitos, and having had the pleasure of tackling the St. Augustine grass (typical growth rate: 4 feet/hr during said summers) with a gang-reel mower.

Seriously, though, this is gonna suck for a lot of people. Y'all be safe down there.
 
Local/state authorities are hopefully taking it all on with the assumption that a Trump administration FEMA won't be much help. I know there's a whole slew of mandatory evacuation orders for the coastal areas.
 
sackett said:
Something about the name "Harvey" just doesn't sound threatening. In a really long hurricane season, they might get to Wilton or even Wimpy.

Let's go back to female names. Hurricane Winhulda, now, or Hurricane Yolanda -- them's names for real storms!

But good luck, Texas folks. Not trying to disparage here.

I think that naming storms is maybe a little bit superstitious. It's trying, in our feeble human way, to placate the terrible nature of the earth.
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Never works though!!!!!
 
Speaking of naming hurricanes...anyone else have a hurricane with the same name as you? It feels kinda weird...especially when your namesake is a Cat 5 and kills nearly 20,000 people. (Hurricane Mitch)
 
Now announced as Cat 4 with sustained 130mph.

Radar shows landfall real soon, but throughout the day forecasters were saying midnight to 1am. That's six hours from now but the eyewall is really near the coast right now.
 
William Parcher said:
Tide is rising and will peak in about 30 minutes.
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There were some guys interviewed who said they were too poor to evacuate. Just get the hell outta there, is my take.

Probably too late now.

And Trump on holiday at Camp David.

Perhaps the Dear Leader is hoping his missile will be blown into the eye of the hurricane or something.
 
Eyewall is like 15 miles from coast, but has slowed in progress from 10mph to 8mph.

It's interesting to watch the footage from Streaming Guy but difficult to listen to him. He's very manic and regularly contradicting himself. It's all bad enough but he exaggerates and describes things happening which you can see aren't. He's been talking about zero visibility but you can still see far into the distance.
 
Weather Channel let Jim Cantore go instead already. We know what hurricanes look like.

I'm surprised they didn't have him reporting on the eclipse from the surface of the sun.
 
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