Thinking of Texas

[ohio herd]

Wow! Texas is getting slammed. Harvey was a Category 4 hurricane when it made landfall between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor, Texas, on Friday night, making it the first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in Texas since 1961. Wilma, in 2005, was the last major hurricane to make landfall in the United States.Say a prayer for the people down there and if you can support any relief agency that will be there to help out in the aftermath.

 

[i am herdman]

Wow! Texas is getting slammed. Harvey was a Category 4 hurricane when it made landfall between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor, Texas, on Friday night, making it the first Category 4 hurricane to make landfall in Texas since 1961. Wilma, in 2005, was the last major hurricane to make landfall in the United States.Say a prayer for the people down there and if you can support any relief agency that will be there to help out in the aftermath.

The rain is going to astronomical. That is the thing that causes the most damage and loss of life. Some of the rain estimates are unreal.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

Unofficial Cat 5 gusts measured by some friends of mine in Rockport. And considering Dr. Reed Timmer was part of their team, I'd call it damn near official.

Their hotel lost a wall and a large part of the roof. Looked like a war zone in their videos.

 

[ohio herd]

Unofficial Cat 5 gusts measured by some friends of mine in Rockport. And considering Dr. Reed Timmer was part of their team, I'd call it damn near official.

Their hotel lost a wall and a large part of the roof. Looked like a war zone in their videos.

sounds really bad on the ground

 

[herdfan429]

sounds really bad on the ground

Going to get worse since Harvey is forecasted to just camp out and continue to dump rain for the next 4-5 days

 

[i am herdman]

Unofficial Cat 5 gusts measured by some friends of mine in Rockport. And considering Dr. Reed Timmer was part of their team, I'd call it damn near official.

Their hotel lost a wall and a large part of the roof. Looked like a war zone in their videos.

accuweather guys? I saw their video from Rockport.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

accuweather guys? I saw their video from Rockport.

Reed is with AccuWeather. Another is with Weather Nation. The rest have their own steaming deals and sell stuff to the networks and local channels from all over. A bunch of them set up at the same hotel, which is smart because in a hurricane there is safety in numbers, they all have each other's backs. A couple of them had to drive right before the eyewall and rescue another that wrecked on a causeway. Hardcore dudes lol. I'd ride with them any day, any storm.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

sounds really bad on the ground

Bad, but better than expected...folks are able to leave town, and that's better than expected.

 

[i am herdman]

Reed is with AccuWeather. Another is with Weather Nation. The rest have their own steaming deals and sell stuff to the networks and local channels from all over. A bunch of them set up at the same hotel, which is smart because in a hurricane there is safety in numbers, they all have each other's backs. A couple of them had to drive right before the eyewall and rescue another that wrecked on a causeway. Hardcore dudes lol. I'd ride with them any day, any storm.

That hotel was torn all to shit. They had a shot where the curtains were sucked out between the window and the wall and the window was still in place.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

That hotel was torn all to shit. They had a shot where the curtains were sucked out between the window and the wall and the window was still in place.

Yeah, it lost an end wall from the 2nd to 4th floor. Looked like a bomb went off.

 

[i am herdman]

Yeah, it lost an end wall from the 2nd to 4th floor. Looked like a bomb went off.

I have been in one tropical storm and saw the results of hurricane Matthew. Irene and Sandy in the southeast
People sometimes don't realize the size and scope of these storms. They are massive

 

[sistersville]

I dont remember what hurricane it was .It was around 1969 or 70. We drove from new orleans to jacksonville florida and the roads were desroyed and everything on both sides of the road. Those memories fading.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

I have been in one tropical storm and saw the results of hurricane Matthew. Irene and Sandy in the southeast
People sometimes don't realize the size and scope of these storms. They are massive

I'd still take a hurricane over a EF-5 wedge coming at me.

 

[i am herdman]

I'd still take a hurricane over a EF-5 wedge coming at me.

I have been through a tornado(NC tornadoes in 2011). It happened so fast like a fast steamroller. Damn thing picked up two horses right up from my house. They found school year books that went from Sanford NC all the way to Cary NC just outside of Raleigh. We got lucky went it went over our subdivision. Damn thing was going up and down they said and went down to F0 to F1 and it was a F3 at one point just south of us. THen it dropped again and went into Raleigh..

I heard it coming down the road and it was popping the transformers. Trees and shit everywhere. IT was wild. Got lucky. I've got a copy of the official weather statement track and minute by minute. 90 mph winds in our subdivision. The only things that saved our ass was that it went off the ground for awhile and weakened. Damn thing tore shit up for 60 miles.

Hurricanes are so much bigger scale and last so much longer and lots more water. Lots of tornadoes spawned in hurricanes.

The thing about the tornado is they are so fast a devastating and you might not know they are coming.

The one I am talking about is the F3 that starts just below Sanford in this map.

 

[i am herdman]

Here is the Lowes store it hit in Sanford NC

 

[Y.A.G Si Ye Nots]

im about two hours from Houston. we were assured that we would get hit hard, but other than heavy winds and constant rain, there hasn't been much. many places closed today, and the university has already announced being closed on monday, but i dont understand why.

i just got back from dinner and a blowjob, and other than a handful of traffic signals out and branches that have fallen, there isn't anything major.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

Here is the Lowes store it hit in Sanford NC

A big box store is the absolute worst place to be in a big tornado, as we learned in Joplin.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

The thing about the tornado is they are so fast a devastating and you might not know they are coming.

The other thing is the nature of the wind. A hurricane you get it all from one direction. A tornado is swirling, lifting, doing all kinds of crazy shit. And all that wind has stuff in it. Most tornado deaths are blunt force trauma. Shit hitting you, impaling you. Some victims in Joplin had limbs ripped off, their skin sandblasted off. Just insane stuff.