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Significant Houston Area Floods

#1 Postby Ptarmigan » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:02 am

List of Houston floods since the 19th century. Some are really devastating and memorable. December 8, 1935 flood had the Buffalo Bayou rise by 46 feet! It flooded up to three stories!

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#2 Postby JenBayles » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:40 pm

Hope that doesn't happen today.... :roll:
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#3 Postby tropicana » Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:59 pm

Preliminary record rainfall for Houston TX today... 4.89 inches.
Further south, Galveston has seen 3.57 inches, a new record for Oct 16 as well.

Other prelim records:-

North Little Rock AR 1.17 inches
Alexandria LA 3.66 inches
Monroe LA 4.81 inches
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#4 Postby vbhoutex » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:54 pm

Well we have another October flood to add to the mix now. :eek:
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#5 Postby Ptarmigan » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:42 pm

Lots of October floods. I noticed it left out the May 1989 flood and Hurricane Chantal of 1989.
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#6 Postby jasons2k » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:27 pm

Ptarmigan wrote:Lots of October floods. I noticed it left out the May 1989 flood and Hurricane Chantal of 1989.


There are lots of events missing for some strange reason. Hurricane Bret (1999) and Hurricane Claudette (2003) are both missing from the TX Hurricane list - and Bret as a major. Go figure.....

http://www.wxresearch.com/almanac/thurlist.htm

I think I will email them.
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#7 Postby jasons2k » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:44 pm

^^

I emailed them and it's fixed.
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