Dennis Remnants are flooding Metro-Houston

HouTXmetro · #1 Postby **HouTXmetro** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:00 pm

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mp ... ry/3266523

http://www.khou.com/perl/common/video/w ... props=live (live coverage)

hicksta · #2 Postby **hicksta** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:01 pm

i noticed the wind a while ago. i was hitting golf balls out into the bay. they carried so far. i thought i was tiger woods

#3 Postby **jasons2k** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:02 pm

some images here:

http://www.click2weather.com/weather/47 ... etail.html

The had a radar capture but replaced with floating car...

#4 Postby **jeff** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:02 pm

There is major to severe street flooding, but we are not flooding from the bayous. This water will go down once the rain stops.

ALERT gages show an impressive 4.53 inches in 1 hour. Widespread 2-4 inch per hour amounts over downtown

HouTXmetro · #5 Postby **HouTXmetro** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:03 pm

Further evidence that Houston can't handle a Hurricane period.

#6 Postby **Steve** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:06 pm

Good for you guys. You've been screaming for rain for a while, and now you've had a good few days of a moister atmosphere.

Steve

#7 Postby **jasons2k** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:15 pm

Steve wrote:Good for you guys. You've been screaming for rain for a while, and now you've had a good few days of a moister atmosphere.

Steve

It was good, but almost too good. I'm on Post Oak Blvd. (near Galleria) and I can't leave the building. Stalled cars up-and-down Post Oak right now.

#8 Postby **dhweather** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:17 pm

jeff wrote:There is major to severe street flooding, but we are not flooding from the bayous. This water will go down once the rain stops.

ALERT gages show an impressive 4.53 inches in 1 hour. Widespread 2-4 inch per hour amounts over downtown

Good lord! That's enought to cause major flash flooding all by itself.

#9 Postby **deltadog03** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:24 pm

hey, we need it up here in the northern part of the state too

#10 Postby **dhweather** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:24 pm

Here's a Grlevel3 screenshot of the storms pounding Houston:

<img src="http://www.diamondheadweather.com/houston.jpg">

stormie_skies · #11 Postby **stormie_skies** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:25 pm

HouTXmetro wrote:Further evidence that Houston can't handle a Hurricane period.

You aren't kidding! When I first moved here I could NOT believe how easily streets flood here ... one good downpour and half the metro is friggin' swimming!

#12 Postby **Houstonia** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:25 pm

It poured up here at Cy-Fair College for a good 40 minutes - no exaggeration. It has just now died down. Yesterday I got stuck in the downpour and was socked.

What it proves to me is this: Houston is bone dry until it's underwater.

#13 Postby **Houstonia** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:27 pm

stormie_skies wrote:
HouTXmetro wrote:Further evidence that Houston can't handle a Hurricane period.

You aren't kidding! When I first moved here I could NOT believe how easily streets flood here ... one good downpour and half the metro is friggin' swimming!

They specifically construct many roads in houston to act as "drainage ditches" during heavy weather. It's a lot easier for you to get out of the way of the flooding than for your house to flood every time it rains.

Website · #14 Postby **Brent** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:27 pm

I guess the ground is SO dry it can't soak in it quickly... if a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane ever comes in just west of the city, it's going to be a catastrophe.

#15 Postby **Houstonia** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:30 pm

Brent wrote::eek:

I guess the ground is SO dry it can't soak in it quickly... if a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane ever comes in just west of the city, it's going to be a catastrophe.

just west of the city? Can hurricanes come via Austin?!?

:lol:

#16 Postby **jeff** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:38 pm

Houstonia wrote:
stormie_skies wrote:
HouTXmetro wrote:Further evidence that Houston can't handle a Hurricane period.

You aren't kidding! When I first moved here I could NOT believe how easily streets flood here ... one good downpour and half the metro is friggin' swimming!

They specifically construct many roads in houston to act as "drainage ditches" during heavy weather. It's a lot easier for you to get out of the way of the flooding than for your house to flood every time it rains.

You are right about the road construction that is exactly how our roads are designed. You flood the streets and not the homes. At the same time, there are very few if any drainage systems that can handle 4.5 inches of rainfall in an hour.

Most of the flooding is now gone except in the typical locations.

#17 Postby **jasons2k** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:38 pm

Hey DH Weather:

Thanks for that!!! How did you get the Topo. background? I can't seem to do that...

#18 Postby **CaptinCrunch** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:41 pm

Please send Rain to D/FW ASAP.....Lawn has missed out on the last few days we had rain.

#19 Postby **Steve** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:43 pm

Crazy feeder moisture coming through here right now too along with a bunch of winds - gusting 30ish downtown New Orleans.

Steve

Swimdude · #20 Postby **Swimdude** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:52 pm

Yeah there was some nice gusty wind during those storms that rolled through around 2:00 in West Houston. Gusts to 35 or so... And it POURED.

Dennis Remnants are flooding Metro-Houston

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