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Yes indeedy.

I'm sure it will stop soon.

BackInTex wrote:I'm sure it will stop soon.

As soon as Trump arrives on Tuesday and commands it to stop.

Bob Juch wrote:

BackInTex wrote:I'm sure it will stop soon.

As soon as Trump arrives on Tuesday and commands it to stop.

Fuck you bob

BackInTex wrote:I'm sure it will stop soon.

I'm sure it will stop, mon, soon.

Thank you. I'll be here all week. Tip the waitstaff and bounce the assholes.

Bob Juch wrote:

BackInTex wrote:I'm sure it will stop soon.

As soon as Trump arrives on Tuesday and commands it to stop.

Congrats on your 5th consecutive "Asshole of the Year" award. You've earned it.

BackInTex wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

BackInTex wrote:I'm sure it will stop soon.

As soon as Trump arrives on Tuesday and commands it to stop.

Congrats on your 5th consecutive "Asshole of the Year" award. You've earned it.

I don't think he's even trying anymore. It's just so natural for him.

I've seen from the storm track that it appears to have made landfall a decent distance south of Houston. Does that mean the Houston folks have avoided the worst of the deluge? --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:I've seen from the storm track that it appears to have made landfall a decent distance south of Houston. Does that mean the Houston folks have avoided the worst of the deluge? --Bob

Sadly, no. As the winds rotate counterclockwise around the storm's center, they push Gulf moisture onto areas to the east. So Houston got the heaviest rain (but not the strongest winds). Now Harvey's stopped moving, continuing to pummel Texas. Finally, weathermen predict, it'll turn around and pass right over Houston for a parting shot.

I haven't heard this called a Biblical flood yet, but that's a fitting description.

Bob78164 wrote:I've seen from the storm track that it appears to have made landfall a decent distance south of Houston. Does that mean the Houston folks have avoided the worst of the deluge? --Bob

We've had 18 inches so far and we're 25 miles north. No. Landfall was only part of this. The bands are neverending. Houston is under water and surrounding communities, 50 plus inches in the end. Houston is BAD.

Beebs52 wrote:

Bob78164 wrote:I've seen from the storm track that it appears to have made landfall a decent distance south of Houston. Does that mean the Houston folks have avoided the worst of the deluge? --Bob

We've had 18 inches so far and we're 25 miles north. No. Landfall was only part of this. The bands are neverending. Houston is under water and surrounding communities, 50 plus inches in the end. Houston is BAD.

Stay safe. --Bob

I can only imagine this kind of flooding. We had 6" of rain fall in 1-1/2 hours several years ago and it was devastating.

Stay safe...and have a sturdy umbrella handy.

We are on our way to save the poor critters under 4' 2"...

They're going to release two reservoir dams to stem worse flooding.

21 inches here so far

Beebs52 wrote:21 inches here so far

22.5 here (48 hours)

Beebs52 wrote:They're going to release two reservoir dams to stem worse flooding.

And what a cluster their ineptitude in explaining the situation caused.

It was simple. The reservoir is filling up and will back up into some neighborhoods and those folks should evacuate. Because the reservoirs are filling up, they will open the floodgates to relieve some of the pressure on the dams and help to lesson the flooding caused by the reservoirs filling up. But those neighborhoods will still flood, just not so bad.

Opening the floodgates will of course impact those downstream with additional flooding. Nothing can be done about that.


Instead, everyone thinks the neighborhoods that are flooding as a result of the reservoirs filling up are flooding because they are releasing the water. And folks miles upstream from the reservoir (even where I live) are in panic filling all the message boards up with questions about will they be flooded. "No, the water will flow downhill toward the gulf."

BackInTex wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:They're going to release two reservoir dams to stem worse flooding.

And what a cluster their ineptitude in explaining the situation caused.

It was simple. The reservoir is filling up and will back up into some neighborhoods and those folks should evacuate. Because the reservoirs are filling up, they will open the floodgates to relieve some of the pressure on the dams and help to lesson the flooding caused by the reservoirs filling up. But those neighborhoods will still flood, just not so bad.

Opening the floodgates will of course impact those downstream with additional flooding. Nothing can be done about that.


Instead, everyone thinks the neighborhoods that are flooding as a result of the reservoirs filling up are flooding because they are releasing the water. And folks miles upstream from the reservoir (even where I live) are in panic filling all the message boards up with questions about will they be flooded. "No, the water will flow downhill toward the gulf."

As I understand it, the Corps of Engineers is releasing the water because the dams are at risk for failure. According to a story I heard this morning they were rated as among the most likely to fail. Releasing the water is designed to prevent them from failing, which would be much worse than the planned release.

BackInTex wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

BackInTex wrote:I'm sure it will stop soon.

As soon as Trump arrives on Tuesday and commands it to stop.

Congrats on your 5th consecutive "Asshole of the Year" award. You've earned it.

Just for that, you're going to get at least two feet more rain.

Bob Juch wrote:

BackInTex wrote:

Bob Juch wrote: As soon as Trump arrives on Tuesday and commands it to stop.

Congrats on your 5th consecutive "Asshole of the Year" award. You've earned it.

Just for that, you're going to get at least two feet more rain.

Getting an early start on the campaign for 6 straight?

Your comments have been and continue to be out of line, Bob. Please knock it off. --Bob

Bob78164 wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

BackInTex wrote:
Congrats on your 5th consecutive "Asshole of the Year" award. You've earned it.

Just for that, you're going to get at least two feet more rain.

Getting an early start on the campaign for 6 straight?

Your comments have been and continue to be out of line, Bob. Please knock it off. --Bob

That's okay. He can join the charitablehumans group. A good fit.

I'm not a Texas lawyer so I can't evaluate the accuracy of this article from the Dallas News, but if it's right, it behooves anyone with an insurance claim to get it filed by Thursday. --Bob

Section 6 of this executive order, signed two weeks ago, isn't looking like such a good idea right now. It repeals a 2015 executive order directing the government to enhance infrastructure with protections from flooding.

Obviously there hasn't been time to implement the repeal so I'm not saying that anything would have happened differently in Houston this time around. But we're seeing a pretty good illustration why repealing the 2015 executive order was a mistake. Kudos to Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R Fla.) for saying so at the time. --Bob