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Looks like Harvey just went category 4. They're predicting several feet of rain in the Austin area between now and Tuesday night.

 

This is one weird storm, in a badass sense. It's basically predicted to park itself over Victoria until Wednesday, with part of its circulation over the Gulf...which means it's going to act like a big-ass fire hose sucking water from the Gulf and dumping it on south Texas. Too late to build an ark, I guess?

 

And this thing didn't even exist Wednesday morning.

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I wonder what this Will do to our shipping @ work... We get a lot of tonnage that moves between the BP refinery in Indiana in Lake Michigan and the Gulf Coast. This will put a crimp in the petro-chem push... Prices will surely rise. They gotta be shutting down and shuttering up. Will the effects be far reaching?

 

Yes. This isn't just a storm that blows through, then you clean up. This is feet of rain over the next five days. The wind is a minor problem compared to that. I don't see how that amount of rain doesn't completely !@#$ up inland water transport for the next two weeks.

 

Too bad Georgia Pacific's no longer publicly traded. Koch Industries is going to make a good chunk of change off the drywall replacement alone in South Texas.

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125 mile an hour wind! Wonder if my house could take that? At what speed does wind destroy houses?

If your house has withstood a blowhard like you, I'm sure it could withstand a hurricane.

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If your house has withstood a blowhard like you, I'm sure it could withstand a hurricane.

LoL... Wacka bringing his A-Game back! Glad to see you are doing well...

 

:-)

 

 

Anyway... I gotta go mow the lawn, @ +702' above sea level, as I kiss the high ground like The Pope. ;-)

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Stay safe.

 

:beer:

 

 

This is one weird storm, in a badass sense. It's basically predicted to park itself over Victoria until Wednesday, with part of its circulation over the Gulf...which means it's going to act like a big-ass fire hose sucking water from the Gulf and dumping it on south Texas. Too late to build an ark, I guess?

 

And this thing didn't even exist Wednesday morning.

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Yes. This isn't just a storm that blows through, then you clean up. This is feet of rain over the next five days. The wind is a minor problem compared to that. I don't see how that amount of rain doesn't completely !@#$ up inland water transport for the next two weeks.

 

Even if the storm doesn't stall over the area, rain will be a big issue, at least inland. West Austin, south through San Antonio and well into the Rio Grande valley is all hard-packed, rocky soil and caliche that doesn't absorb water for squat. As always, low water crossings will claim a few of the daring and stupid. In my area, the storm will be little more than an inconvenience.

 

I swung by the grocery store yesterday on my lunch break, not thinking about the impending storm or the subsequent crowds I would encounter who were hoarding water, milk, eggs, and bread. Not only did a 10-minute errand take almost an hour, but I now have an image of everyone in Austin huddled at home, drinking water and eating french toast.

 

edit: just downgraded to category 1

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Poor Houston! Tough time for a lot of people trapped in flooding houses. God speed to them and all those people working right now to save people

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Poor Houston! Tough time for a lot of people trapped in flooding houses. God speed to them and all those people working right now to save people

 

!@#$ 'em. Texas voted Trump. They're Nazis.

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Poor Houston! Tough time for a lot of people trapped in flooding houses. God speed to them and all those people working right now to save people

 

 

!@#$ 'em. Texas voted Trump. They're Nazis.

Well, the city of Houston itself voted for Hillary so his narrative is still consistent.

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Didn't a bunch of people from New Orleans get transplanted to Houston after Katrina?

 

I wonder how many are experiencing this for the second time.

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Apparently I am to blame for minorities staying in Houston, because I'm white.

 

Logan Anderson is seriously retarded.

Have you set up your Individual Reparations Account yet?

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TWEET OF THE DAY:

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Hillary staffer TRIGGERED by rescue boat in Houston with Confederate flag................. :doh:

 

 

 

 

 

HERO ALERT: Man travels to Houston with his boat and one courageous goal

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"I'm gonna save some lives"

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Hope his boat isn't that big plastic one... They will be saving him. Now that JonBoat w/the outboard will do.

 

Hope people aren't being idiots and jumping into the hero role half cocked.

 

:-/

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Of course not. That never happens.

LoL! You put my worried mind at ease. :-/

 

Who's taking bets when the last person leaves a FEMA Conex box for more permanent residence?

 

I will say 2028.

 

I am probably going low, if Katrina is any indication. :-(

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