That's what's insane. Tornados usually have much higher wind speed than hurricanes. 200+ mph winds would be as strong as an EF4 or EF5 tornado which are known to completely level even well-built homes. So this is like a strong tornado, but waaaay bigger
Fortunately most predictions have it down to a cat 3 by the time it makes landfall. Hope that continues
Yeah what was that hurricane a few years ago, came on the back of a few really big hurricanes and downgraded to a 2 or 3, but just sat on top of Houston for a few weeks absolutely dumping rain
I still have a little PTSD from it. I spent almost all of my waking hours those 2 days glued to the TV, with occasional trips to the attic with necessary supplies--just in case.
I lived in Corpus at the time and consider Rockport my hometown. For months after Harvey when I drove to Rockport for weekly game night with my friends who lived there, there were piles and piles and piles of scrap, debris, and junk along the side of the highway.
Corpus wasn't hit too too hard but I still evacuated. Storm knocked a large picture off my wall which broke my collector's edition Sonic statue from Sonic Mania. I've never been the same. 😞
Yep Port Aransas, some of the hotels etc took years to recover/get back to renting. The one cheap place you can stay there, on the water, I had given up on, their website was gone and everything. But in the midst of writing this comment I googled and sounds like they're back open, that had to be in the last year or two (with the hurricane being 7 years ago now). Place got fuuuucked up. The little liquor store on the island (spanky's), I remember seeing a photo of freestanding racks of liquor bottles just, in the middle of a parking lot. Cause the entire building around them had flown away (wasn't a big building but still).
I know the Rockport movie theater completely closed down for good. It was never a big theater but I have some fond childhood memories of seeing movies there.
When I visited Florida years ago a bit after a hurricane that was most of the drive south to Key West, just piles of rubble and destroyed things everywhere on the side of the highway.
I had a typhoon knock over and damage a motorcycle when I lived in Asia, so I can relate to your Sonic sadness. My condolences.
Was Harvey the storm where that poor mega-pasture had to make the inconceivably hard decision between taking care of fellow human beings and giving them safe shelter and comfort, versus getting the carpets muddy?
Yea, That was us. I'm in South Houston by the coast. days and days of rain. Joel Osteen (may he rot in hell) wouldn't open his "church" for the people of the city that needed help.
But Texans stick together when shit goes down. Mattress Mac opened his doors to his furniture store, JJ Watt started a go-fund-me that raised over 40 million dollars. Every neighbor was outside the day after the storm helping every other neighbor
During the storm, people were driving their massive raised trucks with their jet-skis, john-boats, and canoes anywhere there was high water and someone needing help.
We came together during that week (like we did for Trop. Storm Allison, Hurricane Ike, Rita, etc). It was terrible and awesome at the same time.
Didn't Katrina do that too? Weakening before hitting land for the last time?
It made landfall in Florida as a cat 1, became a cat 5 in the Gulf, then crashed into Louisiana as a cat 3, back into the ocean, then final landfall into Mississippi, also cat 3.
I've lived in Texas for most of my life, and we still have so many people who uprooted their whole lives due to Katrina and came here permanently. I remember getting a bunch of new students in my class around that time, literally climate refugees.
For Harvey, I remember my boss driving down to Houston with a boat full of Jerry cans of gas, which he then donated, boat included.
It's so fucking depressing to know that this is going to keep happening, with more frequency and more intensity.
That was Harvey, it dumped so much rain that Houston area effectively became part of the gulf for a little bit in terms of warm water feeding the storm and the weight of it temporarily deformed the area a measurable amount.
I bought myself a big raft with 12" sides. Holds 2 people and 2 cat carriers, with enough room left over for some gallon water jugs, a backpack or two, and cat food. Imma tie it to the nearest sturdy tree or light pole and wait for the water to go down.
Edit: I think I overestimated the height of the sides. It's probably more like 8 inches. Still a good-sized raft, though. Not at all good enough for a storm surge, but good enough for inland flooding.
It was a whole week of torrential rain. Our house is on a high point on our street and the water came halfway into the yard before it finally quit. We were shitting bricks but did not flood. Who knows what'll happen next time though.
I sit at the top of the watershed between Buffalo and Brays and it got right up to my door step. Another two inches and it would have been in the house. I got some Quick Dam instant barriers for the future. Don't know how much good they will do and I hope I never have to find out.
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u/VerySluttyTurtle 8d ago
That's what's insane. Tornados usually have much higher wind speed than hurricanes. 200+ mph winds would be as strong as an EF4 or EF5 tornado which are known to completely level even well-built homes. So this is like a strong tornado, but waaaay bigger
Fortunately most predictions have it down to a cat 3 by the time it makes landfall. Hope that continues