Harvey

[Fox Mike]

Hope and pray that all you guys and gals in Harvey's path are hunkered down and prepared for the worst. That is one bad lookin storm!

 

[RUFFBIRD]

Have been watching it on CNN today. This one looks as bad as Katrina!
We here in Canada will certainly be thinking about you.
It is sad such storms destroy peoples lives....

 

[mikewriter]

Funny storm, forecasters can't get it figured out. After landfall it is expected to go inland nearly to San Antonio. I actually just heard a local forecasters say it could be in Dallas by Tuesday! Expected to back up into the Gulf again and make a second landfall east of Houston next week. We just made a run to our woods place to check on things, some heavy rain and wind coming back, saw several downed trees. Need to go feed my dogs before it starts raining again.

Mike

 

[Kevin]

Yeah, I was beginning to wonder about some of the members here down in that area of Corpus Christi (Wyandot Jim, among others) and there's someone else from Cut 'N Shoot, Texas (incredible name of a real town, down near Houston I think.)

 

[GP100]

Yeah, I was beginning to wonder about some of the members here down in that area of Corpus Christi (Wyandot Jim, among others) and there's someone else from Cut 'N Shoot, Texas (incredible name of a real town, down near Houston I think.)

If you think that's a funny name for a town, we once did a film shoot in a very small town called "Muleshoe" Texas.. It was mainly corn fields from what I saw of it..

 

[coach]

A friend that lived in Houston for a while said the city flooded with a heavy rain. I can't imagine what a few feet of rain would do to anyplace. Add the wind and what a mess it will be.

 

[SR1911SHOOTER]

Yeah, I was beginning to wonder about some of the members here down in that area of Corpus Christi (Wyandot Jim, among others) and there's someone else from Cut 'N Shoot, Texas (incredible name of a real town, down near Houston I think.)

Kevin,
There is also a town up in east Texas called Gun Barrel.
Blackie

 

[SR1911SHOOTER]

Folks in Rockport, just north are staying put, after the Texas Governor said "Get Out"!
My wife called her sister in Rockport, and they said we are not leaving. Their "Stuff"
is more important than their lives. These folks do not realise that when the power goes
out, gas pumps quit running. To late to leave.
When Rita came through Louisiana, we were up in Mount Pleasant at a Best Western, and
a lady who had just evac'd Louisiana had the perfect solution for "Stuff". She told us
when they said git, the opened the freezer, tossed the contents in the back yard, and
took off north. Smart woman.
Blackie

 

[GunnyGene]

It's up to Cat 4 according to the NWS a few minutes ago.

 

[gramps]

Ruger Randy is east of Houston, that is flat land and marshy in areas. Bkat is in Tx too.
gramps

 

[Jimbo357mag]

Good luck to everyone on that coast. That looks like the wettest hurricane I have ever seen. It is expected to stay in that area for days, maybe until the middle of next week.

 

[graygun]

Yeah, I was beginning to wonder about some of the members here down in that area of Corpus Christi (Wyandot Jim, among others) and there's someone else from Cut 'N Shoot, Texas (incredible name of a real town, down near Houston I think.)

WJ is a little west of Houston. I'm between SA and New Braunfels and the rain is almost here.

 

[akbluz]

I used to live in Orange, TX and we got a few hurricanes/tropical storms through the years (I left before Hurricane Rita). I believe one tropical storm in 1980 dumped 23 inches of rain in a 24 hour period in Orange county. I saw lots of flooding over the years. And then add in the flooding of the Sabine River a couple of years ago when the Sabine River Authority opened the flood gates at Toledo Bend dam - lots of flooding downstream.

 

[Fox Mike]

I saw on the news that the sheriff of one of the towns told people that wouldn't leave to use a permanent marker and write their Social Security number on their arms so that they could be identified later.

 

[Mus408]

All you folks down there stay safe!

 

[Bkat]

I'm in a suburban area about 20 miles north of downtown Houston and we're okay so far even with the heavy rains. But if the forecasts for rainfall over the next few days are correct, the water will come out of the bayous and we'll have some disastrous flooding all over the Houston area. So it's still wait and see.

Thanks for the good wishes.

 

[mohavesam]

It is estimated 40% or more of Texas at-risk residents didn't heed the warnings for Ike in 2008 and over 140,000 residents didn't evacuate. Ike leveled 30,000 coastal homes and flooded more than 100,000. 84 were killed. Galveston Island was smeared into mud for miles and declared uninhabitable. Chew on those numbers awhile.

Developers in TX have for years built in low areas and even "boxed in" some drainages - bayous dozens of miles from the shoreline. My home got flooded twice one summer, bringing the copperheads and fire ants out for weeks. Fun.

Texas' biggest problem with storms and flooding is inadequate drainage and over-development. Always has been, always will be.

Despite the hype, heed the warnings.

 

[DGW1949]

I'm in a suburban area about 20 miles north of downtown Houston and we're okay so far even with the heavy rains. But if the forecasts for rainfall over the next few days are correct, the water will come out of the bayous and we'll have some disastrous flooding all over the Houston area. So it's still wait and see.

Thanks for the good wishes.

I'm a bit N/E of you...kinda equidistant between Splendora, Grangerland and Cut 'N Shoot...depending on which direction I'm looking.
So far, all we've gotten is a lot of rain and a bit of wind. Myself, I'm not nearly as concerned about the hurricane as I am about the tornadoes which they always seem to spawn.

I guess we'll see what we see as this thing progresses, eh?

DGW

 

[graygun]

In 2008,people were coming here from Galveston to buy generators etc .... over 250 miles between the two.

 

[Bkat]

I'm in a suburban area about 20 miles north of downtown Houston and we're okay so far even with the heavy rains. But if the forecasts for rainfall over the next few days are correct, the water will come out of the bayous and we'll have some disastrous flooding all over the Houston area. So it's still wait and see.

Thanks for the good wishes.

I'm a bit N/E of you...kinda equidistant between Splendora, Grangerland and Cut 'N Shoot...depending on which direction I'm looking.
So far, all we've gotten is a lot of rain and a bit of wind. Myself, I'm not nearly as concerned about the hurricane as I am about the tornadoes which they always seem to spawn.

I guess we'll see what we see as this thing progresses, eh?

DGW

Yep. Like you, I'm more concerned with tornadoes. There has already been some severe tornado damage in some Houston-area subdivisions. But we've got some gullies and creeks in this area that are filling up fast. Who knows what another three or four days of this will cause. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

By the way, I lived west of Porter back in the 70's and early 80's and know your area. I remember Roy Harris made Cut 'N Shoot famous when he fought Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight championship way back when.

 

[DGW1949]

I'm in a suburban area about 20 miles north of downtown Houston and we're okay so far even with the heavy rains. But if the forecasts for rainfall over the next few days are correct, the water will come out of the bayous and we'll have some disastrous flooding all over the Houston area. So it's still wait and see.

Thanks for the good wishes.

I'm a bit N/E of you...kinda equidistant between Splendora, Grangerland and Cut 'N Shoot...depending on which direction I'm looking.
So far, all we've gotten is a lot of rain and a bit of wind. Myself, I'm not nearly as concerned about the hurricane as I am about the tornadoes which they always seem to spawn.

I guess we'll see what we see as this thing progresses, eh?

DGW

Yep. Like you, I'm more concerned with tornadoes. There has already been some severe tornado damage in some Houston-area subdivisions. But we've got some gullies and creeks in this area that are filling up fast. Who knows what another three or four days of this will cause. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

By the way, I lived west of Porter back in the 70's and early 80's and know your area. I remember Roy Harris made Cut 'N Shoot famous when he fought Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight championship way back when.

Mr Harris is quite the Icon around here, and has been for many decades.
His popularity back in the day and the overwhelming amount of fan mail it generated is the direct reason for the original Cut 'N Shoot Post office having been established. In fact, he was/is so closely associated with the Town getting their own post office that he was immediately given PO Box #1 in gratitude...plus, an old poster advertisement of the (then) upcoming Harris VS Patterson fight hangs inside the more modern P.O. as a remembrance this very day.
And just in passing, he is also the only heavy weight contender to graduate college after retirement, and the only one who later became a lawyer. In addition, he also served as Montgomery County Clerk for close to 30 years...

All in all, a much different kind of man than the thugs who rule the sport these days, that's for sure.

DGW

 

[toysoldier]

I saw on the news that the sheriff of one of the towns told people that wouldn't leave to use a permanent marker and write their Social Security number on their arms so that they could be identified later.

Isn't that what all those tattoos are for?

 

[Colonialgirl]

Hope TDi stays safe and dry, but he's up some where around Dallas.

 

[mikewriter]

I'm below Houston, on the edge of Freeport, actually. We haven't had that much rain - 2" yesterday, 2" last night, over 1/2 this morning". Lot's of evacuations - both voluntary and mandatory.We've been under voluntary evac "suggestions" since Friday, but stayed put. We left for Ike, but could have stayed, in retrospect. Protected from storm surge and stream runoff by levees, extreme rainfall could be a problem, but we've missed most of the heavy stuff so far, and we're draining OK. Looks like it has stopped raining again, for now. Only storm damage we've ever had HERE (Lost a 31 Bertram to IKE, but that was over on the creek) was from a small tornado several years ago, - don't want another one of those.

Mike

 

[DGW1949]

My place sits relatively high, so it don't flood. That said though, everything around me does, so we ain't going anywhere even if we wanted to.
Yesterday, I was able to drive my truck into town and look around some, but this morning the road that leads out of here was under water, so I'm sure that the road to town is impassable too. I reckon it'll be like that for at least the rest of the week, but that's OK...just is what it is, that's all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3159YIe2OU&feature=youtu.be

DGW

 

[mikewriter]

We didn't get much rain last night - 9" total since this thing started. Right now it is "dry" and a bit windy. Latest forecast shows Harvey going back into the Gulf and swinging fairly wide of us - making a second landfall on the Louisiana coast midway between Lake Charles and New Orleans. Our worry now is river flooding. Both the Brazos and San Bernard flow through this county and both are expected to crest at record levels. Most towns on the river have been evacuated. The Gulf outlet of the San Bernard is sanded closed again, which causes it to "back up" more seriously - unless the water flow cuts a new channel to the Gulf, allowing better drainage.

Mike

 

[#1rugerman]

When hurricane Fredrick hit south Alabama the whole town where I lived lost power. The local national guard had several trailer mounted generators, they put one at the hospital, and they sent one that went from gas station to gas station, powered them up til they pumped they dry then moved on to the next. We had two freezers full of meat, we emptied the chest type freezer, put it on dads pickup, filled it with meat and drove it to my aunts house further inland til we got power back. Used the charcoal grill and the fish cooker to cook, filled the tub with water to use to flush the toilet, before the power went off we froze water in containers in the upright freezer to keep it cold enough to hold food for several days, only opened it once a day. Ate a lot of sardines, Vienna sausage, peanut butter and jelly and tomato sandwiched. It was hot but we survived.

 

[GunnyGene]

When hurricane Fredrick hit south Alabama the whole town where I lived lost power. The local national guard had several trailer mounted generators, they put one at the hospital, and they sent one that went from gas station to gas station, powered them up til they pumped they dry then moved on to the next. We had two freezers full of meat, we emptied the chest type freezer, put it on dads pickup, filled it with meat and drove it to my aunts house further inland til we got power back. Used the charcoal grill and the fish cooker to cook, filled the tub with water to use to flush the toilet, before the power went off we froze water in containers in the upright freezer to keep it cold enough to hold food for several days, only opened it once a day. Ate a lot of sardines, Vienna sausage, peanut butter and jelly and tomato sandwiched. It was hot but we survived.

If you need to freeze water again to keep food cold, here's a tip: Mix/soak sawdust in with the water till it's about the consistency of pancake batter, then freeze it. It will remain frozen/cold 3 or 4 times longer than just plain water.

 

[jimbo1096]

DGW-- Thanks for the SRV reminder on Texas Flood. Very apropos
Y'all stay safe and keep the powder dry.
jh

 

[ifithitu]

Praying for the people of Texas,in the name of Jesus.Amen