Hey RealBicycleBuck: You got your water wings?

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 07/09/2019 at 13:04 • Filed to: None

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Cause it looks like yer  fixin ’ to get wet.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 13:14

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RIP Texas.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 13:14

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Under_Score > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 13:28

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Companies really thought it was a good idea to put their headquarters in Houston.

ttyymmnn > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 07/09/2019 at 13:30

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RIP Houston. They don’t call it the Bayou City for nothing. That part of the country is only barely above sea level.

HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 13:39

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So, Utah’s annual rainfall is 18.85 inches...

HoustonRunner > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 13:41

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I resemble that remark...my house is  a solid 53 feet above sea level.

HoustonRunner > HammerheadFistpunch 07/09/2019 at 13:43

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During Harvey the county gauge by my house reported 32.96 inches over three days.

Sovande > HammerheadFistpunch 07/09/2019 at 13:45

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DC got all the rainfall for the month of July yesterday in 45 minutes.  

facw > Under_Score 07/09/2019 at 13:46

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My company’ s HQ mostly escaped flooding during Harvey, though our spare office furniture storage was in a below grade area, and so all of that stuff was ruined.

user314 > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 13:50

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Holy Sc hnikes! Trop depression/storm? I don’t think there’s enough time to throw an Ark together.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 13:52

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ttyymmnn > HoustonRunner 07/09/2019 at 13:52

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When I went to Rice, I lived in an apartment that backed up to 59. Right along here, as a matter of fact.

MattHurting > HoustonRunner 07/09/2019 at 13:58

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My house in Colorado is 7000 feet above sea level.

Under_Score > facw 07/09/2019 at 13:58

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There’s so much risk with that area. Oil, yes, proximity to a large body of water, yes, but there are other places like that that don’t seem to deal with blows as devastating as Houston.

ttyymmnn > user314 07/09/2019 at 14:00

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TD that may turn into a hurricane.

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 07/09/2019 at 14:00

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One my favorite songs.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 14:11

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Is that now called the Rice Canal, and do they grow rice there?

user314 > HammerheadFistpunch 07/09/2019 at 14:14

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facw > Under_Score 07/09/2019 at 14:18

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With smarter development, I think it would have been manageable, but with the Houston area being one big slab of concrete and asphalt (there are nice areas, but so much of it is paved), there’s really nowhere for all that water to go when it gets heavy rains, the soil isn’t going to be able to absorb much.

Under_Score > facw 07/09/2019 at 14:22

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City planning says it all. Think about New Orleans.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 14:23

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We’ve been monitoring the weather. You’re right, it looks like we’re going to get wet. If my daughter didn’t have to take the ACT on Saturday, the family would make the run to South Texas. 

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2019 at 14:25

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Be safe, if not dry. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > facw 07/09/2019 at 14:31

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The area soils are classified as “D” soils. From a hydrological perspective, they aren’t much different from concrete.

TheRealBicycleBuck > HammerheadFistpunch 07/09/2019 at 14:33

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“Normal” annual rainfall in Houston is 49.77".

Baton Rouge is 62".

Seattle is 37.5"

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 14:33

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Thanks.

M.T. Blake > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 14:48

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Get back on the Oregon Trail and go west. 

Brickman > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 14:55

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This is weired one. Its developing near florida then going to loop into louisiana. Will be keeping watch. 

ttyymmnn > Brickman 07/09/2019 at 15:35

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All the weather is weird these days. 

HoustonRunner > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 15:42

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Yep, sections of 59 and I-10 are meant to take up a bunch of water once the bayous reach capacity. There is a reason they tell people to stay off the roads.

The challenge is the occasional local downpour of 5-7 inches in 2 hours over a very small area can cause this type of flooding real quick, trapping people on the road.

Again, all things you learn living in Houston.

You know what we don’t get - the ground unexpectedly shaking all around us. This you can plan for if you pay attention.  Earthquakes terrify me.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 15:52

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It amazes me that the drums didn’t break while John Bonham played this song. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 16:15

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Even worse - the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou provide direct access through Galveston Bay to the Gulf, making downtown Houston part of the Texas Coastal Zone. It’s hard to believe, but t he stream gages west of downtown Houston are tidally influenced.

The cycling of that graph is the tides. The station is located near Shepherd drive, 3 miles west of downtown.

ttyymmnn > HoustonRunner 07/09/2019 at 16:57

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But they’re having earthquakes in OK due to the fracking. 

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2019 at 17:01

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Looking at that Houston map:

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 17:08

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We were living in Cypress when Allison came calling.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 17:09

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My mom told me about waking up to the house shaking. I was hoping to experience one while we were prepping the house for sale. Although there were several, none were big enough for me to feel.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 17:10

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I found that annoying too. I just couldn’t find another map of the official coastal zone and didn’t have time to make one of my own.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/09/2019 at 17:52

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I guess it’s just the best orientation to get the bulk of the info into a landscape rectangle. 

HoustonRunner > ttyymmnn 07/09/2019 at 21:27

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Yes, hard to argue that.  Even from someone whose total household income is from oil and gas companies.