Hurricane Harvey

[Mountaineer]

Just had this email from a friend who lives in League City, TX (southeast of Houston about half way to Galveston):

Hi folks thanks for your thoughts and wishes – so far so good – no high winds unless the storm re-emerges next week and comes up the coast. Have got a couple spates of heavy rain so far but hours in between of no rain or only very light rain. I think the threat, as far as our area goes, is over-hyped. If we were 35 miles down the road on Galveston Island it might be a different story. Nobody in our neighborhood is evacuating as far as I know.

[WiseOne]

Most weather events are severely over-hyped. A Category 4 this may be, but I hope that's true in this case, and that the decision not to evacuate is a better indication of the storm's expected impact.

Everyone in the storm's path, be well. Fill the bathtub with water if you haven't stocked up on potable water already!

[Tyler]

Here in Austin it looks like we're expecting a ton of rain but (hopefully) nothing more severe than that. Just hoping to stay dry!

[ochotona]

Tyler we need to get together sometime! Houston is pretty quiet right now, light rain. Not sure what happens Wednesday if the eye passes over us.

[Kriegsspiel]

ocho, do you surf? I'll bet hurricanes kick up some sick waves.

[ochotona]

Not a surfer, no. The last 12 hours have seen massive rain, and a tornado 1 mile away. The rain will continue for the next 2 or 3 days at least. I hope the creeks don't top their banks.

[farjean2]

I see there is another red X off the Carolina coast already. We had a yellow one smack over us all weekend but fortunately it didn't materialize.

Hope this isn't gearing up to be a repeat of 2004. We've been lucky ever since that monster year but I hope our luck isn't running out.

[dualstow]

50 in., 1300 mm

[dualstow]

Supposedly a levee has been breached just south of Houston at Columbia Lakes.

[farjean2]

Damn, this monster sure is taking its time in a holding pattern before making landfall. We've been having sporadic downpours all day even over here on the west coast of Florida.

[bedraggled]

The east coast of Florida is dry today.