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Tropical Weather

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AuTX Buckeye said:
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just going to throw this out there about Waffle House.
i was in Baytown, Tx when Harvey hit and flooded Houston in 2017 (tried telling y’all i was a magnet for these things).
60” of rain in 3 days.
some neighborhoods completely submerged.

the Waffle House on 146 was closed for like 6 hours, max.

couldn’t pass on sections of I-10, but you could get them grits and bacon. :slappy:
 
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Nutriaitch said:
just going to throw this out there about Waffle House.
i was in Baytown, Tx when Harvey hit and flooded Houston in 2017 (tried telling y’all i was a magnet for these things).
60” of rain in 3 days.
some neighborhoods completely submerged.

the Waffle House on 146 was closed for like 6 hours, max.

couldn’t pass on sections of I-10, but you could get them grits and bacon. :slappy:
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Yea Waffle House and whataburger are two barometers of impending weather disasters
 
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I don't know how people live down there. I've lived in different parts of tornado alley and the Midwest for a large chunk of my life. I've never suffered a hit, but was close twice - in 1985 (5/31/85, pretty famous outbreak) an F-5 leveled much of my hometown, and this April, an F-3 did a lot of damage about 8 miles from our home. But tornados are almost random and you just have to quickly react to them and process the aftermath.

Hurricanes are a whole other beast. They impact huge swaths and their paths are reasonably predictable. You typically have a couple/few days notice. I can't imagine the psychological impact it has knowing a monster is churning towards your home, will likely decimate all that you own, and there's nothing you can do about it. Just absolute helplessness. No thanks. I'll stay up here and dodge the 'naders.
 
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NFBuck said:
Hurricanes are a whole other beast. They impact huge swaths and their paths are reasonably predictable. You typically have a couple/few days notice. I can't imagine the psychological impact it has knowing a monster is churning towards your home, will likely decimate all that you own, and there's nothing you can do about it. Just absolute helplessness. No thanks. I'll stay up here and dodge the 'naders.
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It's the helpless waiting that gets you.
I've been through enough now that I can reasonably gauge what to expect.
I'm fortunate enough to say that I dodged a bullet with Katrina. But that was the one that scared me the most. By far.

I sent my wife and 2 your sons west to evacuate.
I stayed home with my dad and his elderly parents (grandfather was basically bedridden at that time).
We had done all the prep work we could and were now just waiting.

When we lost power, she was still a Cat 5 Monster that had not taken the turn north yet. So we were watching Radar/Satellite images of the biggest baddest storm either of us had ever seen heading in a straight line directly at us when everything went dark.
Listening to the radio as the weather rapidly deteriorated, we knew it turned and we would likely be spared the surge, but we didn't really know how Far East it was going to pass.
WE caught the western eye wall for HOURS that felt like days.
complete darkness outside and all we could hear was absolute hell breaking loose.

the next morning, weather was still complete shit. Nola had gotten smoked so bad that even radio station were out. So we literally had no clue what was happening outside of the street we were on. Phones were out so no contact at all with outside world, so I couldn't even call my wife to let them know we all made it through.

I "acquired" a satellite dish and box and got it set up at my grandparents.
first images I saw when I got it working was the Helicopter flight over Biloxi showing that it was just....gone.

for those few days, the complete helplessness, cluelessness, was just something that is really hard to describe.

then less than a month later, I was standing on our levee and watched it collapse for Rita.
 
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Nutriaitch said:
It's the helpless waiting that gets you.
I've been through enough now that I can reasonably gauge what to expect.
I'm fortunate enough to say that I dodged a bullet with Katrina. But that was the one that scared me the most. By far.

I sent my wife and 2 your sons west to evacuate.
I stayed home with my dad and his elderly parents (grandfather was basically bedridden at that time).
We had done all the prep work we could and were now just waiting.

When we lost power, she was still a Cat 5 Monster that had not taken the turn north yet. So we were watching Radar/Satellite images of the biggest baddest storm either of us had ever seen heading in a straight line directly at us when everything went dark.
Listening to the radio as the weather rapidly deteriorated, we knew it turned and we would likely be spared the surge, but we didn't really know how Far East it was going to pass.
WE caught the western eye wall for HOURS that felt like days.
complete darkness outside and all we could hear was absolute hell breaking loose.

the next morning, weather was still complete shit. Nola had gotten smoked so bad that even radio station were out. So we literally had no clue what was happening outside of the street we were on. Phones were out so no contact at all with outside world, so I couldn't even call my wife to let them know we all made it through.

I "acquired" a satellite dish and box and got it set up at my grandparents.
first images I saw when I got it working was the Helicopter flight over Biloxi showing that it was just....gone.

for those few days, the complete helplessness, cluelessness, was just something that is really hard to describe.

then less than a month later, I was standing on our levee and watched it collapse for Rita.
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I spent a good bit of time in Biloxi/Keesler AFB for my meteorology training in the Air Force. I had to go down there in May of 2006 for weather observer school and the damage was still very evident. The juxtaposition to what it was when I had been there previous times was startling. There was still one of the casino barges washed up on the beach, bars we had frequented were gone, as were so many other businesses. Parts of I-10 still had huge amounts of debris on it, as did most of the other roads near the water. Keesler AFB looked wildly different from before. It's incredible how it just totally reshapes entire communities.
 
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