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Houston Floods
Aug. 29th, 2017 02:05 pmI hope anyone I know who is near the flooding is somewhere safe and warm.
It disturbed me when people were cheering that Harvey had been downgraded from a category 4 to a category 1. There's far less chance of wind damage that way, but a swiftly moving storm will hit a wider area dispersing the rain and probably blowing itself out.
A category 1 or a tropical storm will hang on in one place. They tend to be wetter.
I haven't been in serious flooding in close to 40 years, but I remember vividly. Agnes got trapped in the Blue Ridge mountains of West Virginia in the early 1970s. It just kept raining. The tributaries to the Potomac overflowed their banks. The Potomac rose high enough that the water touched the overhang at the Kennedy Center (about 15 feet). The stains can still be seen. My summer camp was in West Virginia, and we briefly ran out of food. We got supplies in by boat in the late afternoon, so we only missed lunch. Breakfast? Well, the taste of sour chocolate milk on Rice Krispies comes back every time I look at the pictures of Houston.
As of a few minutes ago, the warnings went out that one of the big dams is about to overspill and the powers that be really aren't sure where that water will go.
It disturbed me when people were cheering that Harvey had been downgraded from a category 4 to a category 1. There's far less chance of wind damage that way, but a swiftly moving storm will hit a wider area dispersing the rain and probably blowing itself out.
A category 1 or a tropical storm will hang on in one place. They tend to be wetter.
I haven't been in serious flooding in close to 40 years, but I remember vividly. Agnes got trapped in the Blue Ridge mountains of West Virginia in the early 1970s. It just kept raining. The tributaries to the Potomac overflowed their banks. The Potomac rose high enough that the water touched the overhang at the Kennedy Center (about 15 feet). The stains can still be seen. My summer camp was in West Virginia, and we briefly ran out of food. We got supplies in by boat in the late afternoon, so we only missed lunch. Breakfast? Well, the taste of sour chocolate milk on Rice Krispies comes back every time I look at the pictures of Houston.
As of a few minutes ago, the warnings went out that one of the big dams is about to overspill and the powers that be really aren't sure where that water will go.
