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Thread: Harvey
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08-27-2017, 09:17 PM #31
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50 inches. Wow. I don't know what the record rainfall for something like this in the US is but surely that's close to one. I don't even know what you do with that.
If Lexington got 50" my house would be OK b/c we picked REALLY high ground (we're above the aptly named High Street), but downtown lexington would finally get that lake the Webbs wanted. My neighborhood would be lakefront property and Rupp would be an indoor fishing pond. I can't even imagine what it would look like. My gallery would be toast.
Insane numbers.People keep asking if I'm back and I haven't really had an answer. But now, yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm back.
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08-27-2017, 09:22 PM #32
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I looked it up and apparently this is old hat, I guess it what Dan was alluding to. The 24 hour record is Alvin Texas, outside of Houston, in 1979 from a tropical storm. 43 inches. The total for the storm was 45 inches, but 43 of it was in one day.
People keep asking if I'm back and I haven't really had an answer. But now, yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm back.
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08-27-2017, 10:06 PM #33
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08-27-2017, 10:06 PM #34
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08-27-2017, 10:14 PM #35
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It was interesting reading.
The largest 12 hour rain was recorded in Pennsylvania of all places, so not from a tropical storm, just a storm. Got 34 inches in 12 hours, but they think that 28 of it fell in 3 hours. The article said it stripped hillsides to the bedrock.
The record for an hour is 13.8 inches in a town in West Virginia in the 40s.
The record for 1 minute is 1.23 inches. That's over 70" an hour. That is apparently also the world's record for rainfall, and it was in Maryland. Personally I'd bet some tropical areas have seen more but it was just never recorded by anyone, but that's a ton.
But in my view that makes this storm in Texas one of the "right up there" rainfalls with the national records if they really get up in that 50" range. It will be over days but still just as crazy an amount of rain as it appears to be.People keep asking if I'm back and I haven't really had an answer. But now, yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm back.
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08-27-2017, 10:22 PM #36
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Houston's 911 has received 56,000 calls in the last 24 hours. In a typical 24 hour period Houston's 911 service receives 8000 calls.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk"I have touched all the so-called capitals of basketball, but when it gets down to the short stroke, the only true capital of basketball is in Lexington." AL McGuire
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08-27-2017, 10:38 PM #37
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08-28-2017, 07:21 PM #38
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5 day Harvey precip forecsst
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I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight.
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08-28-2017, 07:48 PM #39
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Probably going to be wet in Hattiesburg Saturday.
changing my signature to change our luck.
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08-28-2017, 08:18 PM #40
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08-28-2017, 08:32 PM #41
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08-28-2017, 08:34 PM #42
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Wonder how long fire ants can float around before they ALL drown?
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08-28-2017, 08:38 PM #43
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08-28-2017, 08:57 PM #44
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08-29-2017, 07:16 AM #45
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08-29-2017, 10:32 AM #47
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08-29-2017, 01:08 PM #48
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08-29-2017, 01:12 PM #49
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As it relates to the game Saturday, yes it is.
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08-29-2017, 02:04 PM #50
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Snakes....
Fire ants...
Alligators...
All Hurricane Harvey issues...
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08-29-2017, 02:06 PM #51
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UK Equipment Staff preparing contributions of gear to send to Coach Sampson at Houston, who is organizing the effort.
UK is always on the forefront of charitable endeavors. It makes me proud. Calipari has already sent some stuff, I think, in addition to a $150k contribution from the charity fundraising alumni game.
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08-29-2017, 04:01 PM #52
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Re: Harvey
It is like the plagues in Egypt. Heart breaking.
This is an unbelievable amount of rain. Several years ago I flew to Houston on business. Torrential down pour (relatively speaking) hit the city. I was struck how the water (3 inches) stood and the area started to flood.
No city was built for this type of weather. But the city doesn't do well with heavy rains.
Terrible story and the pictures are terrifying.
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08-30-2017, 08:42 AM #53
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Seattle, Washington has an average annual rainfall of 37".
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08-30-2017, 01:02 PM #54
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Bayou: a marshy arm, inlet, or outlet of a lake, river, etc., usually sluggish or stagnant.
We need to stop living where the water is supposed to be.changing my signature to change our luck.
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08-30-2017, 04:37 PM #55
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They have the same amount of water on the ground that would be equal to 15 days of flow over Niagara Falls.
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08-31-2017, 10:53 AM #56
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Ugh....I'm watching Irma pretty closely now. Coming off Africa, already a Cat 2 and predicted to come bearing down on me although some models have it going into the Gulf and even hitting the Texas coast. That would be a real pisser, huh! However most models have it hitting the east coast of FL middle of next week. Hopefully the models are wrong and it turns north before it hits Puerto Rico.
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08-31-2017, 11:21 AM #57
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On the news today, it was stated that the amount of area under water in Texas was roughly the size of Lake Michigan. That is astounding and absolutely dwarfs what Katrina did in New Orleans. Mind boggling.
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08-31-2017, 12:18 PM #58
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I put up a thread on the Barber shop b/c I was worried about it being a big controversial here, but it revisits the fact that as early as 1998 there was a report on how government is skewing the market in several ways to basically cause these disasters.
Obviously they don't make it rain, but they do have a lot of control over whether people build right in the low lying area in the path of that rain. Houston is a low lying area, and they have paved over the bayous and marsh lands there and now we're surprised when it rains a bunch and it floods.
It got into the federal flood insurance programs, Houston's long time lack of control over zoning and development, etc. Even back then Houston was cited as one of the worst situations in the country, where numerous homes had been flooded repeatedly and paid out. The record was in Houston, paid out 16 or 18 times.
So a lot of this is people simply building where it isn't wise to build.People keep asking if I'm back and I haven't really had an answer. But now, yeah, I'm thinkin' I'm back.
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08-31-2017, 02:14 PM #59
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It floods every time in rains in parts of southwest Jefferson County here in Louisville. Residents always want to blame the Metropolitan Sewer District but one glance at a map shows it's in a flood plain.
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08-31-2017, 02:16 PM #60
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Speaking of rain in Louisville, we're supposed to get remnants of Harvey starting around midnight tonight, some of it pretty heavy. The high tomorrow is only forecast for 64 degrees.
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