Splish, Splash, I Was Takin’ a Bath…
Well, fortunately, I haven’t been flooded out yet, and I even made it to work.
It would be really nice if the Harris County Flood Control District put the flood gauges online though. There’s some key bayous I’d like to have news on, which might make a difference as to getting home.
Guys? Think about it.
June 19th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
When you get ten inches of rain, I think it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that everything is going to be messed up for quite a while.
I’ve been through a storm which dumped 4 inches of rain, in Massachusetts, and it was pretty amazing. (Mass Ave turned into a river.)
June 19th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Yep. I enjoyed listening to the fool on TV complaining that his house had flooded for the first time since TS Allison 5 years ago, and it was the fault of the county for not putting in the flood control project upstream like they said they were going to then.
Eight inches of rain in little more than an HOUR (75 minutes per radar). That’s Act of God level, and it would take a second act to keep you high and dry.
Allison was a light shower at 1.5″ per hour. Of course that was over 24 straight hours, with most of it between 7pm and 3am….
More rain predicted for this evening.
June 21st, 2006 at 12:20 pm
You can check the Harris County Office of Emergency Management’s site at http://hcoem.org/ Click in the railfall map, then you can also click on the rain amount number for further info about that bayou location
or take a look a the USGS’s real-time stream flow site: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/tx/nwis/current?type=flow&group_key=county_cd&search_site_no_station_nm=&format=pre
June 21st, 2006 at 1:10 pm
Perhaps he was a fool for buying a house in a rainy place that used to be a swamp. Did I mention I don’t miss Houston much?
June 21st, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Ah, thanks zip77 — I suspected it was out there somewhere. You’d think the HCFCD would link it very obviously.