Harvey

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even if it doesn't, louisiana and the texas coast are FUCKED

pressure already down to 981 mb

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>>9126347
GG i live in corpus christi. I love you /sci/boys

>>9126371
you're gonna die man

>>9126371
>Texas A&M issues mandatory evacuation for Corpus Christi campus
get out with the smart people while you can

>>9126371
I'm in corpus too. Not looking forward to the power outages :(

>>9126371
>>9126376
y'all might want to leave

>>9126376
power might be the least of your worries

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Why hasn't texas had a major hurricane in years?

Do they fear the water warrior?

>>9126384
with 15 inches of rain you could probably drown just opening your mouth

>>9126347
Glad I just moved from Conroe, TX to Golden, CO literally not even a full week ago

now forcasted to be a major hurricane by landfall

full hurricane now

>>9126401
>just moved from Conroe, TX to Golden, CO
gtfo ass-hat we are full and you're making the housing market shit. Go back to your shit-town.

>>9126277
news has been saying it will be a category 3 or even higher

>>9126371
>>9126376
i live in corpus too. they've already ordered evacuation of a few areas (robstown and port aransas), and suggest that people evacuate the rest of padre and mustang islands as well as flour bluff. the base is also getting closed down afaik.

i don't plan on leaving but if you want to leave, i recommend heading out towards laredo or at least alice. the valley isn't that great of an option, and san antonio/austin are going to get hammered. victoria and houston are kind of risky since they'll take the northern side of the storm.

>>9126401
same, from houston to NY. feel bad for my folks but they are used to it, feels weird to have a hurricane in the gulf and it being a non-issue for me

>>9126390
The so-called 'Texas death ridge' was an area of high pressure that served to either deflect tropical storms, or deprived them of the moisture needed to grow and sustain them meaning they fizzled by landfall.

>>9126347


It looks

like a giant

NUT SACK

Good Luck, TX
good thing I got to see N'awlins when it was above water

>>9126669
small mind.

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>>9126347
updated. god is pissed.

>>9126677
Cat 3 is nothing to fuck around with, but it is a LONG way from the sort of fucking over a ig storm can give you.

This one is going to cause as much damage from rain as anything else.

If you are in that area, though, gtfo. Got stuck in SC in the Hugo aftermath, not having power for three weeks in the south in the summer is not worth it, even if you are not worried about dying horribly.

I'm in spring Texas. How badly is it going to hit here?

HAHAHAHAH THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR LIVING IN THE SOUTH


IDAHO REPRESENT

>>9127181
Ayyy im in Huntsville, AL, glad to see we'll get some rain from this

San Antonio reporting in. All 4chan bullshit aside, get the fuck out of Corpus. We're far enough inland to survive and you can still find hotel rooms.

I-37 is gonna be a bitch, tho.

>>9126277
I live in Houston, idk if I have to go to work this weekend. Luckily I work the morning shift tomorrow bc I need the money.

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>>9126277
>tfw you live in Arizona and you know this Hurricane is going to bring dank weather to alleviate the Heat wave

Fuck that nigger

You have quite a storm on hand, that's a serious matter

>>9127403
Is it monsoon season yet?

>>9127655
Sure is, buckaroo.

>people living in the typical path of hurricanes in areas barley above sea level

what exactly did these people expect was going to happen?

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>tfw climate changer deniers get weathered to death

my sides

>>9127271
We don't have to worry about a tornado fucking our house though.

>>9128767
Almost anywhere you could live is susceptible to one disaster or another. What do you think will happen?

Praying for my nigga jim it's looking rough in corpus christi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSHpxA2grUQ

>american wooden houses

>>9128808

> tfw the unexpectedly low frequency of major storms still invalidates every "we're going to get drowned by hurricanes every year" handflapping panicmongering prediction for the last decade

>>9129124
Why do Americans build wooden homes along the coast?

>>9129178
>Why do Americans build wooden homes along the coast?

It's cost effective for housing developers.

>>9129178
Because the severity of these hurricanes would rip apart a brick building with just as much ease, and that creates a tremendous amount of collateral damage and is more expensive to repair.

>>9129226
Structures could be built out of concrete instead but that would be very, very expensive.

>>9129233
no it wouldn't
throwing up shacks made out of wood is not at all the cheap way to do things

>>9129244
>throwing up shacks made out of wood is not at all the cheap way to do things

You'd be surprised, especially once you start factoring in the cost of the foundation needed to support the structure.

Concrete clocks in at $98 per cubic yard.

>>9129163
>tfw long-term threats aren't comprehensible to mindlets

Texas is so fucked. Combine wind speeds of Charley coupled with the torrential rain of Tropical Storm Allison.

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1zqKVRbYXWWKB

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Well damn.

>>9129178
the homes themselves can actually be built to withstand hurricanes pretty well. there's standard building practices for it these days. the biggest problems are the windows and any flood damage, and any type of home would be prone to those.

>>9129346
>write social security number on arm
this seems fishy

>>9128388
at least it will be spread out over 72+ hours. still shitty since a lot of the soil around houston is clay and doesn't drain very well

>missed new orleans
dang i was hoping we'd finally be rid of that city

>>9129411
New Orleans forced a lot of their ghetto black ppl to move to Houston after Katrina.... so there's still a silver lining.

>>9127403
>>9127655
Went to AIT in AZ, monsoon season got spooky as fuck. I didn't know literal rivers could form so quick

NOAA reports Harvey has just made official landfall as a category 4 storm. Katrina was category 3 at landfall.

>>9129430
Yea i saw on periscope the eye just hit land. So many destroyed houses already

>>9129430
Not too many storms of this strength in the US in recent years. Charley, Andrew, Hugo are the only comparable ones that come to mind.

>>9129444
rita was pretty bad too

>>9129444
>>9129456

As far as I know none of them have ever just... stalled over one spot like Harvey is forecast to do.

>>9129460
No, this will result in catastrophic damage that we haven't seen in our lifetimes. Worst of the century so far.

Apparently a high school in Rockport, TX collapsed and injured a lot of folks

Places that have collapsed so far:
Home for the Elderly
Police Station
High School in Rockport

>>9126277
AAAAA FUCK HELP I'M DYING SOMEONE PLEASE SAVE MY DOG

>>9129460
It's not just going to stall, it's projected to go offshore for a short vacation and then come back for more

>>9129517
Maybe it'll go to new orleans next and we can be rid of Houston and new orleans in one glorious sweep

>>9129473
>>9129497
High school was only damaged did not collapse

>Harvey has been downgraded from category 4 to category 3
>3 hours after landfall

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The rain bands are lasting longer but at least it's not raining sideways.

>>9126376
RIP

>>9129178
Why do Europeans pay €1,000,000 for a stone flat the size of a closet?

>>9126376

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1BdxYWPqQvAGX

Its a Cat 4 Hurricane anon. Write your ssn on your torso along with your name with a sharpie.

>wind just changed direction
>storm surge is coming

RIP

Jeff just confirmed that the air is saturated with the smell of natural gas and propane. The refineries are most likely hit and there's a fuckton of damage across multitude of tanks.

Expect gas prices across the country and to increase significantly. The intense rain and gale force wins is probably all that's preventing the refineries from erupting in flames.

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Courtesy of the ISS & NASA

Harvey is far more dangerous than Katrina for several reasons:

1. Its a Category 4, and a category 4 to make landfall. Which brings with it 120-140mph winds + 60-70" of rain

2. The eye of this storm is tiny as all hell, compared to Katrina when it made landfall. Smaller the eye, the deadlier the storm and stronger its wind speeds as well as density of the eye wall (strongest part of the hurricane) as well as its cohesion.

3. Its one of the slowest moving storms ever recorded to make landfall. To make matters worse, its just spinning on axis and barely moving up. As a result, it continues to feed from the warm waters of the ocean as well as the warm waters of the bay where it made landfall. Unlike other hurricanes which move inland, usually quickly, which results in a loss of strength eventually dropping down in categories until they turn into tropical storms, then depressions, then standard thunderstorms/isolated and finally dissipating--this one is just SITTING there.

If you guys lose power, where ever you are within the scope of this storm DO NOT expect to have it back for weeks, if not months. The infrastructure in place that moves power all over; is pretty much fucked. Expect water treatment facilities to be affected, expect major arteries to be to be flooded/trashed/covered in debris from trees, establishments, businesses, etc. Which is going to hamper relief efforts.

And finally, as mentioned earlier, BECAUSE the air is saturated with the smell of propane and natural gas, its going to make a lot of people sick, nauseous, even light headed and potentially get them killed from the fumes--once the hurricane moves away.

From Jeff's stream, it was absolutely clear that the strongest part of the storm, the northern eye wall roared right over the area which contains majority of the refineries and storage tanks of vast amounts of the petroleum within southern Texas.

This one's for the history books.

>>9129683

Also once you get a few miles inland (think Houston) the soil is no longer sandy (like most areas that get hit my hurricanes) and is mostly clay. Clay is really slow to drain. This will make the flooding significantly worse.


Texas is the only state to have its own power grid, so that could work in favor of getting power repairs done sooner... or not.

>>9129652
thats a very nice storm viewing porch you have. underground power lines too?

>>9129700
No, the power will probably go out eventually I'm just in southwest Houston where for now it's just rain and not much wind. Even so, I just got done tying down the neighbor's trampoline which blew over the fence into my yard because they're lazy niggers and didn't secure it.

>>9129712

Thanks to the Coriolis effect and the fact that the northern eye wall is swinging around, that storm is going to swing upwards towards Houston.

Just because you don't have much wind doesn't mean its not coming for you.

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>>9126376
I'm this guy signing in again. Power has been out for 13 hours. A few trees down on my street but so far no major damage visible to neighbor's houses. A bedroom, the bathroom, kitchen, and part of the hall are now steadily leaking. There has been constant wind and rain for hours. The storm surge didn't make it to my street 14 feet above sea level, so no flooding, just leaking.

Here is the latest radar pic I could grab. I am in corpus so the eye is well north of me.

Hope my Texas Coast bros are doing OK, and here is to however many days without power!

>>9129652
>>9129658
Ty for your thoughts

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>>9129664
MY SWEET PROPANE

>>9129729
water damage sucks. are your cars ok?

>>9129737
Now I wanna hear a parody cover of sweet caroline with those lyrics

>>9129353
Its so they can ID your corpse.

>hyping up Hurricanes
One Katrina happens and you're declaring every fucking storm the end of the world. It'll disperse as soon as it reaches anything of value.

>>9129760
The cars look fine for now. There hasn't been too much large debris flying around and the storm surge didn't make it to my street. But apparently we aren't in the clear yet. Still sustained winds near 40mph and Harvey just won't gtfo.

>>9129729
are you still alive

>>9127271
enjoy drowning in ash when Yellowstone decides to happen

>>9129770

It was hyped up for a different reason nig. The Cat 4 that made landfall, made landfall, where around 5-7% of the total US Petroleum production and store is located. If the refineries get significantly damaged and the tanks holding all that unrefined crude and refined natural gas are damaged to the extent that hundreds of thousands of gallons are leaking out; by the time that's found and addressed, you'd have a natural disaster worst than Deep Water Horizon on hand.

To make matters worse, this affects the ability for the US to move fuel around the country, as well as export it out of country for trade. Which in turn affects long-term gas prices within the country and around the world. In turn having major economic ramifications, and strengthening and weakening other global players--some of them we don't want to gain strength and others we don't want affected/weakened.

Harvey would indirectly lead to rising tensions across the planet, because it majorly damaged oil production/refinement, and import/export factors.

Do you even into Risk anon?

>>9130265
Still alive. Still without power but the wind is gone and the rain is light. Lowes opened up so we are going to see if we can get something to quick patch the roof. A restaurant downtown is also handing out free ice, but everything else seems to still be closed.

>>9130536
How does your cellphone still have power

>>9130544

What are multiple charge packs for 500, Alex?

>>9130544
Have a 20000 mAh battery pack. It has been feeding 5 smart phones. After it goes we are moving on to using the laptops to charge phones and the cars after that if need be.

Luckily for us current estimate for power back is tomorrow afternoon.

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>67+ tornado warnings around Houston today
>Brazos flooding forecast keeps getting revised upwards and is already projected to beat last year's record
>Evacuation order for river flooding covers houses pretty close to me
>The rain is starting again
HELP

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>>9127181
>tfw fools literally built their homes upon the sand

Imagine being the literal post-ironic result of a biblical parable.

>>9131152
sand drains much better than clay

>>9131175
hopefully enough to soak up all those black tears

>>9129054
We dont have natural disasters in Michigan; blizzards are natural and happen every year (they also dont destroy your home), tornados are extremely rare, especially in the north.

>>9131288
Perhaps nature took pity on Michigan due having to be the state to house Detroit.

>>9131299
Are you equating Detroit to a natural disaster?

>>9131305
no, detroit is much worse

>>9131305
natural disasters can be repaired, this slow burning demographic apocalypse of american cities cannot be reversed.

getting hit by a nuclear bomb is easier to fix than detroit.

>>9131137
Damn. How is the flooding there? Still have power? Bag up electronics and shit and get them off the floor. Consider temporarily relocating to higher ground. Maybe a local shelter

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>>9131541
Kek there is no high ground in Houston. Flash flooding hasn't been too bad on my street so far. I'm not sure what level of river flooding would put the river in my house, I guess as long as it stays below last year's record I'll be ok this year too.

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>>9129763
MY SWEET PROPANE
TASTE THE MEAT AND NOT THE HEAT
MY SWEET PROPANE
AND PROPANE ACCESSORIES

>>9132057
Hope you luck out, anon. Having a river in your house would suck

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>>9129508
>i'm dying
>save my dog
;_;