A Meter of Rain
 

Conversion factor is 39.5" to 1 meter

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Saved up? The law of conservation of hurricane rain? ;)

The US has gone a record long 142 months w/o a hurricane hitting land.

Hope you're on high ground. Holy sheet!

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Well there's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
Well there's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
And I've been tryin' to call my baby
Lord and I can't get a single sound

Well dark clouds are rollin' in
Man I'm standin' out in the rain
Well dark clouds are rollin' in
Man I'm standin' out in the rain
Yeah flood water keep a rollin'
Man it's about to drive poor me insane

Well I'm leavin' you baby
Lord and I'm goin' back home to stay
Well I'm leavin' you baby
Lord and I'm goin' back home to stay
Well back home are no floods or tornados
Baby and the sun shines every day

Hurricane Mathew turned eastern NC into a freakin' lake last year :(.

I remember, it was horrible !

We even had bad flooding in the Raleigh area even though the Hurricane only stayed for about 12 hours.

The issue is the storm will stall over the coast, for a WEEK. Most of the time a storm passes inland and dies out. Two high pressure systems will stall it along the coast, and that is making the storm totals so high.

It's gonna be brutal....and devastating James :(
....but you already know this.

Another way to visualize 1 m of rain is that it equates to about 19,600 gallons per acre. So, it's like having a small swimming pool dumped on every yard in a residential neighborhood.

That's it? I thought it would be a lot higher.

That's a massive amount.....everywhere! The coastal areas are flat...no where for the water to go....but it does :(. Streams become rivers, rivers become raging, and lower areas become huge lakes....

Bottom line....humans, and LOTS of them, live where Mother Nature says you probably shouldn't be living...or pay....eventually...

we once got 11 inches of rain in about 5 hours from a wave
not even a storm or tropical depression just a wave with no name
and it all fell from 12 midnite to dawn

Red Beard you have a PM

There are 43,560 sq ft in an acre. Times 3 ft deep equals 130,680 cubic feet of water 3 feet deep per acre. There are 7.48 gallons of water per cubic foot. So there are 977,486 gals/acre.

In addition, that water is not static as in filling a pool. It moves, and moves rapidly. A gallon of water equals 8.35 pounds. So there's the rough equivalent of 8,162,011 pounds of mass per acre in motion.*

Add the wind force and tidal surge and you have a pretty soggy environment.


*All calculations are subject to revision as I can't do maths too good.

I'm not a math guy but I found this on a Google search of "inches of rain to gallons per acre".

So wouldn't that mean that 30" of rain on an acre would equate to 814,620 gallons?

Again I'm not a math guy.

The Saturn V rocket which propelled the astronauts to the moon produced 7,648,000 pounds of thrust at liftoff. That means there is more energy in 30 inches of rain than it takes to go to the moon PER ACRE!

It always boggles my mind when I look at the flooding and all that mass of water and realize, it all fell out of the sky! It just does not seem possible.

Apparently that was the edge. Unless the eye hits land... not my rule. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...leys/draai.gif

43560 (acre square feet) * 3 feet deep = 130680 cubic feet = 977554 gallons

That is about 1.5 Olympic pools! SmileWavy

How's it going in Houston now James?

I'm not James, but I do play one in my own mind.

It's not raining just this second at my place. We have had rain off and on all day, but nothing crazy yet. Outside of my window diagonally across the intersection there are three four-story homes being built. The crews showed up this morning and are still there taking down the scaffolding that's around all 3 homes.

I don't think Houston is going to start getting hammered until tonight. (well, I'm sure some folks have started already...) It the folks south of Houston that are probably getting it now.

My little sister in law lives in Houston, she and her new husband are supposed to be flying to Greece today on their honeymoon. She's still hoping to get out of IAH, their plan B would be to drive to DFW. The only catch, she said that the drive from Houston to Dallas is currently about 22 hours because of evacuations.:eek:

1.5 Olympic pools per acre? --Yikes!

Quick, every one in Houston put up above ground pools and let them fill. Or build an arc. Sheesh.

Sorry, I knew that didn't look right but trusted my HP41... SmileWavy

The eye is calm....many times they follow the gulf stream up the east coast with the GS fueling it the whole way, and the most devastating part of the storm is over landfall even though the eye may stay offshore. Stupid rule :)

Don't EVEN try to tell the folks up north that Sandy didn't hit the mainland....did I say it was a stupid rule :)?

Sandy was not a hurricane.

Say what....must've been "fake news" :)

It didn't go through SmileWavy

Sandy wasn't even a tropical storm when it had landfall! SmileWavy

Flights are taking off just fine. The issue has been cancellations from other areas. international flights are fine.

Storm is going to be hard to predict past landfall. There are almost no steering currents and so each model gloms onto some slight aspect. The issue everyone agrees, the storm stalls for several days southwest of Houston, which will pump lots of moisture in here. If you are in a flood prone area, you will flood.

She sure was a hurricane in the south Atlantic...now technically, you guys may be right....but that's like saying last year's Hurricane Matthew didn't hit NC 'cause the eye was offshore....damn pit knickers :)

I know one thing for sure....the technical definitions don't matter if you're in the middle of one....they're freakin' hurricanes in my world :)

Sandy was a post-tropical cyclone, it has dropped below Tropical Storm status before it crossed into New Jersey.

Harvey, making landfall right now, is a CAT 4, which is stronger than Katrina, which was a CAT 3.

Comparisons are being made to IKE, which hit Houston in 2008. While IKE was a CAT 2 from winds, it was the 3rd largest on record at the time. The NWS was considering changing the "CAT" system to an energy model because of IKE.

I was in Houston for Alicia in 1983, which spring up out of the Gulf, with virtually no warning. It was a CAT 3.

Harvey is bad for Houston, since we are on the North-East side of the storm, which is where the wind and water are the worst.

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Hey James, I'm James too, apparently my PM did not go through. Was a bit panicked earlier about what to do w my 930 in case of rising water. All is well with the car, a dealer of collector cars near my house helped me out and found a place to put it upstairs at his place. I'm near I10 and the BW off of Briar Forest and although water has never been an issue, this storm is different. Lost of areas around me flood, I've been lucky in the 14 years I've been in this house but not too sure about this time around.

Anyway hope all is well and hope that we all dodge a bullet. Stay safe.

Actually, we're close by. West of the BW at West Little York. Glad you found a place. I would say ANY of the above ground parking garages would be OK.

Might be a good time to visit the NW.

I have an office off loop 8 and 59 - its been flooded twice in as many years, at least 2 feet of water each time. I don't keep anything of value there. Hay, the upside is another new desk and chair!

So far. We've had about 10% of the prediction. The majority of the rain is supposed to be Sunday-Tuesday.