Comments on: Splish, Splash, I Was Takin’ a Bath…

By: Ubu Roi

Ubu Roi — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:02:26 +0000

Ah, thanks zip77 — I suspected it was out there somewhere. You’d think the HCFCD would link it very obviously.

By: DrHeinous

DrHeinous — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:10:55 +0000

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?

By: zip77077

zip77077 — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:20:31 +0000

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

By: Ubu Roi

Ubu Roi — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:00:46 +0000

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.

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:28:17 +0000

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.)