Hurricane Humberto Pictures

[southerngale]

Some pictures of Humberto's damage in the Golden Triangle...


FEMA Flipped Trailer
The people who have lived in this trailer since Hurricane Rita got out about ten minutes before it turned onto its side.






Dowlen Road near Parkdale Mall, Beaumont



Flooded Underpass



Sabine Pass



North 11th, Beaumont



Photo by Gene Hughes



Flooded streets in Fannett.Photo by Gene Hughes



A depth marker in a drainage ditch on Wise Road in Hamshire testifies to the heavy rains that hit the area. Photo by Jane McBride



Photo by Jane McBride



Photo by Jane McBride



What used to be a carport lies in pieces and hangs from a utility pole. Photo by Jane McBride



Photo by Jane McBride







The edge of Texas 124 was as close as this homeowner couldn't get to his home. Photo by Jane McBride






The cover to vacuums lies on its side at Tyrrell Park Car Wash in Beaumont. Photo by Jane McBride



The roof of the old Long's Warehouse Furniture building lies scattered on 15th Street in Orange.By Greg Hayes/The Orange County News



Domino's Pizza, Bridge City. By Greg Hayes/The Orange County News






The law office of James Dunaway and Elizabeth Mathews, across from the Orange County Courthouse, burned to the ground early Thursday morning.Greg Hayes/The Orange County News
(That fire was possibly caused by exploding power transformers.)




Utility poles in Beaumont



The roof of Small World Training Center, a business which trains day care workers, was ripped off of half the building by Hurricane Humberto early Thursday morning. Photo by Pete Churton



Downed trees, such as this one on a fence near Lamar University, were a common sight in Beaumont's South Park neighbornhood after Hurricane Humberto blew through.photo by Pete Churton



The Art Museum of Southeast Texas says they suffered severe structural damage from Hurricane Humberto, Beaumont.



House in Groves



Beaumont Street Flooding



Carport that killed man in Bridge City


(I didn't take these... found on various area websites.)

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Kind of looks like Lili like damage to me.

[HarlequinBoy]

Thanks for the pictures, southerngale.

On TWC this afternoon they showed an area that was pretty messed up. I don't recall the location though..

[hurrican19]

Thanks for the pictures, southerngale.

On TWC this afternoon they showed an area that was pretty messed up. I don't recall the location though..

was probably High Island, just west of where it went ashore by about 5 miles.

[HarlequinBoy]

Thanks for the pictures, southerngale.

On TWC this afternoon they showed an area that was pretty messed up. I don't recall the location though..

was probably High Island, just west of where it went ashore by about 5 miles.

Yeah, I think it was.

[southerngale]

Here's some pictures taken from Cookie on a local weather board on her trip to High Island yesterday.

And a quote from her...

This one was definitely worse than Rita for the folks in High Island.
My mother and other relatives rode this one out last night and said it was the worst one they've been through. While Rita was a stronger storm, it did not impact High Island the way this one did. In all the years I lived down there, I have never seen what I saw today.

Rita hit farther east, so High Island didn't get the impact those of us farther east got. I *think* it got closer to the type of damage Galveston got during Rita.


This might change the way some people think of "just" a Category 1...














This house is down the street from Cookie's mother's house.





















































The "eye" looks like a chess piece (the knight).

[southerngale]

I was so busy with other things, I kept forgetting to capture radar and satellite shots, but I did get a few. Some of my images won't load to Imageshack... grrr. Anyone, feel free to add more pics.
















(someone posted this one and I got it from there)












Humberto's early life as a TD...



1 1/2 hours later... when Humberto was a TD...






Another TD pic...





This is one of the first images of pre-Humberto, shortly after the satellite eclipse, when he went from a tiny dot of convection to this in just a few hours. This was in the morning before he became a depression:

[Diva]

Great pics southerngale!

We finally got electricity back today!! Woo Hoo!! On a related note, Kroger only had two gallons of milk in the entire store this afternoon!

[bvigal]

Great pics, thanks for posting them Southerngale! Some of that looks like f1-f2 tornado damage!

[Coredesat]

I've gone ahead and moved this to the aftermath forum.

EDIT: Never mind, moved to Talkin' Tropics instead.

[CrazyC83]

Great pics, thanks for posting them Southerngale! Some of that looks like f1-f2 tornado damage!

I'd call it high-end EF1, and based on the damage applied to the EF scale, the highest wind gusts appear to be about 105-110 mph. (That translates into sustained winds around 80-90 mph)

[destruction92]

Wow, did Houston get anything from Humberto?
Looks like same areas that were hit by Ivan got hit by Humberto...at least predominantly rural areas.
Most of the structural damage looks to be done to mobile homes, awnings, and other rather unstable wooden or flimsy structures. Mainly trees and powerlines...I am surprised by how small Humberto was...could be the smallest hurricane in size in recorded history!

[george_r_1961]

I cant imagine going to bed expecting a piddly TS and waking up to a hurricane warning with hurricane conditions already affecting my area.

[Diva]

I cant imagine going to bed expecting a piddly TS and waking up to a hurricane warning with hurricane conditions already affecting my area.

Yeah, when I heard the rafters in my roof creaking over the hum of the AC and the ceiling fan, I knew something was up! Jumped on S2K and realized we were in for a ride!

[attallaman]

Were all of those areas depicted in these photographs previously affected by Hurricane Rita? I wonder how the area which took a major hit from Hurricane Rita in 2005 is doing today? I stayed about a month in a very nice Marriott Hotel in a mall area in Katy, Texas after Hurricane Katrina and while I was there I witnessed all of the people on I-10 as they attempted to leave Houston and head for higher ground trying to outrun Hurricane Rita. Good pictures by the way.

[Extremeweatherguy]

Wow, did Houston get anything from Humberto?
Looks like same areas that were hit by Ivan got hit by Humberto...at least predominantly rural areas.
Most of the structural damage looks to be done to mobile homes, awnings, and other rather unstable wooden or flimsy structures. Mainly trees and powerlines...I am surprised by how small Humberto was...could be the smallest hurricane in size in recorded history!

North Houston got practically nothing from Humberto. We had a rainband early in the day that dropped a little rain (before Humberto was even a TD), but after that it was dry with breezy 10-20mph winds and fast moving clouds through the evening. I doubt we even had a gust above 25mph during the entire event.

[Andrew92]

Wow, these pictures are why I wouldn't even take a C1 hurricane lightly. This storm even caught me off guard, and I wondered the whole time if it would get stronger than people thought.

A great lesson from Humberto: Be prepared well in advance, because you never know if it'll sneak up on you.

-Andrew92

[Aslkahuna]

It just shows that ANY hurricane is dangerous.

Steve

[Ptarmigan]

Category 1 hurricane is no picnic for sure. In fact any hurricane is no good period.

[KLP124]

A lot of those pics are from Hamshire (several from my street). Yes, we were affected by Rita also. Sooner or later we're not going to have any trees left for the hurricanes to blow down! LOL