1 Year Ago

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Hurricane Harvey landfall.

Lane has dropped 30" of rain in parts of Hawaii. Harvey dumped up to 64.5" of rain from San Antonio to Beaumont.



Store shelves the day before



Hurricane supplies



Flooded Stream



Floating fire ant balls



Flooded Neighborhood





The stream I posted above is diagonal in the top right corner. My house is on the other side of the stream in the corner.

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More "streets", boat access only



Lots of looting around, so AR-15 at the office



More pain killers

[Arizona_928]

Elevated your genset?

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My house was over 3 feet above the top level of the Addicks reservoir max level. The north south street running along the stream goes from 113 feet to 108 feet. The water topped out just under 110 feet.

All the houses in the photos, none flooded. Just the guard shack at the south entrance. The neighborhood just south of us, 30% of 700 homes flooded. The neighbor just east of there, 16 survived out of over 500.

[Hads930]

You in LOE?

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Close LOEN.

[KFC911]

James have they changed the flood plains to account for it all....or will they? I bet it seems like a lifetime ago....still can't imagine such a storm.

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Originally Posted by KC911

James have they changed the flood plains to account for it all....or will they? I bet it seems like a lifetime ago....still can't imagine such a storm.

Nothing has been changed, yet. We've had three flood years in a row. This is similar to what happened in the middle 1930's.

This was a "weird" event. But it was a repeat of 2001 TS Alicia. A high pressure system over the north of Texas blocked the tropical system from moving inland. It stalled at the coast and kept pumping water into the area. Harvey was similar. Everyone forgets that the hardest hit from the Hurricane was Corpus Christi. But once landfall occurred, the storm reduced in wind speed, but sat there like Alicia.

The map shows we received over 35" at our house. Many parts had over 60" of rain. For us, it was 8-10 inches per day over 4 days.

Texas is not flat. But the gulf coast areas are flat. After the 1935 flood, 2 dams were built to hold the water back. The ground here is clay and water does not soak in, except a couple of inches. The problem is...where there used to be nothing are now lots of houses.

And for some stupid reason, they let construction occur in the areas where the dams wood flood, if the dams went full. Well, the dams went full. My neighborhood was fortunate. About 2 more inches and we would have had some flooded homes. About 12 more inches and 30% of our neighbor hood would have flooded, along with my business.

We are technically outside the max extent of the dam. At 108 Feet, water flows around the north side of the dam. At 109'8" feet, water flows over the uncontrolled spillway. it reached 109'2". It was originally predicted to reach 112', based on the storm hooking north about 60 miles west. My house wouldn't flood until 113'6". But the street would flood and block us before that.

What can they do? Widen the flow channels and dredge out the dams.

[Pazuzu]

54 feet here. Down the street to the west is 55 feet. Neighbor across the street is 52 feet, neighbor next door is 53.5 feet. Block south of us is closer to 52 feet. Block south of that is 50 feet. Block south of that...well, you get the idea.

Block East of us is about 53 feet. Block east of that is about 51 feet. Block east of that is about...well, you get the idea.

Water was at 54 feet in our neighborhood. Everything south and east of us was...well, you get the idea.

It never came in the front door, it came up from the slab. 1/4 inch of standing water in the low spots of the hardwood flooring. But...didn't come in the front door!

So,,,you guys can do the math of what a water level of 54 feet did around here.

[Bill Douglas]

Yep... All of these "once in a hundred years" events happening every year or two.

[slow&rusty]

I did not flood during Harvey luckily, dodged bullets all weekend and we had a slight reprieve during the intense downpours that allowed the standing water to recede. The Bayou by my house crested its banks during Harvey.

In April 2016, my place flooded during the anomaly Tax Day flood and I has just finished putting my house back to 100% when Harvey hit and I kept thinking here we go again.

Saving the cars from the Tax Day Flood:







In front my house, my neighbor paddling up my driveway to check on me:

[onewhippedpuppy]

How are things bouncing back guys? It's not something that we hear much about anymore. You know, since TX isn't busy blaming George Bush for the hurricane.