Have spent the morning on phone contacting family in Beaumont. For now they are okay in their area. However they can not leave home due to the high waters close by. They still have power, but are fearful of what is to come ...more rain. Am hoping @Ina I. Wonder , will be able to update us all again soon so we know all is well.
I haven't said anything because there isn't much to say. I've been praying for you @Ina I. Wonder, and I think you know that.
Ina just messaged me. she said that rescue workers have picked up the people staying with her (2 couples her age, and one lady in her 80's), and they took them out in a boat. She said it is getting dark now, but they should come back in the morning and get Ina and Bobert. Some good news though ! @Lara Moss says that she saw about 10 huge passenger planes flying over her house heading south, and it looked ike they were going to Texas. She said they had the blue stripe on the side and American flag on the tail, so she knew they were government planes, and they were marked like Air Force One, but not a sleek jet. She said these were the largest passenger planes and could hold at least 250 people, and since she counted at least 10 of them, that will evacuate a lot of people into a safer area pretty fast. Apparently, they are being flown into Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and probably any other place that has facilities for the stranded evacuees. President Trump is supposed to be there tomorrow, and it sounds like he is sending help as fast as possible. I remember that Trump and Pence were in Louisiana way ahead of Obama last year when Louisiana flooded so bad.
The long version... http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=HGX&gage=GBHT2&refresh=true Here is the screen shot... It appears down about 1 1/2 feet and is falling faster than predicted. However, that would depend on additional rainfall, etc.
@Harry Havens , I'm sure that will be good news for @Ina I. Wonder . She and her friends have been on my mind since yesterday. @Yvonne Smith , I am so glad to hear that. According to that chart the water is receding in her area. Maybe she won't have to leave her home. I truly hope that is the case.
I went back through the posts and found pictures taken at 10AM Saturday Morning, The water level at that time was 54.61'. By 10 that evening it had fallen below 50', before beginning a rapid rise until tapering into its 62.69' crest. It has now fallen to 60.8' or 22.7". The latest forecast has it falling back to the Saturday morning 10AM level... Thursday around 7PM local. The question being whether those pictures were from ponding of torrential rain or backwater? I would hope the former, as the lag time to getting out and about and re-supplied might be a day or two shorter. The chart lists major flooding above 59.9' and moderate from 56.5' to 59.9' and minor from 55' to 56.5'. It is conceivable that it could fall faster, as the heavier bands of rain which had been upstream, downstream and everywhere in the middle, seem to be more downstream towards Galveston. The future forecast seems to indicate Houston to Galveston. Having grown up living near a large creek, we never really worried about the rain on us, but rather what was happening upstream.
Actually, they're all like that. It's the reason meteorologists always talk about the different "computer models." They try to have a computer model for every situation the hurricane might find itself in, though they usually don't. So the meteorologist simply has to make an educated guess as to which is correct and hopes it's right. They depend upon so many different variables that no one could possibly predict what it will do with any certainty.
Ever notice when there is a disaster, that racism leaves and kindness and caring takes over ? There is 'no color' in the helping hand. ❤
Don't know about that. Read online on Friday that INS Checkpoints were going to remain open and documents were going to be checked of those leaving the area. The article stated that many Mexican people would not leave the area due to this.
I don't think that this is a racial thing. We have people that have come into this country illegally, and the only Mexicans who would not want to be checked through would probably be the illegal ones. So it is not a matter of race, but of whether they are here illegally. If they are checking documents of everyone going through, then that is not discrimination.
I just got a message from @Ina I. Wonder , and she is still at her house. I think that I mentioned that the people she was sheltering have been picked up by rescue workers, so it is now just Ina and her grandson (Bobert) again. Yesterday, she was attacked by ants when she went outside to try and help the people get loaded into the rescue boat, and she said that she is sore and has a fever; so she is just going to rest today. I was getting worried because I hadn't heard from her since yesterday; but didn't want to call because I hoped she was just catching up on rest and sleep. My Find Friends app showed that she was still at home, and when I checked the link that is for the bayou water graph, it showed that the water has been going down significantly, so that is good news, too. It looks like, unless they get a lot more rain, maybe the worst of the flooding is done near Houston. The path of TS Harvey shows it will be heading northeast, and we will be getting rain and storms for the rest of the week here by tomorrow.
When my In-laws were flooded out by the Teton Dam flood decades ago, they lost just about everything, including their home. What was in the attic was safe, the main floor and the basement were not. The flood came with only 30 minutes warning to get to high ground, which they did. All of their personal keepsakes were pretty much destroyed or lost, stuff that cannot be replaced like pictures, guns, art, letters, wedding dress, etc. That's my first flood experience back in the '80s. We visited a week later & the devastation was incredible. TV doesn't even come close to express the scope of the disaster. God bless those people, please!
@Yvonne Smith , tell @Ina I. Wonder to take some Benadryl if she has it. That will help counteract the allergic reaction to the ant bites. If she doesn't have that, she can take some other kind of antihistamine.