Houston Area Submerged After 16 Inches of Rain in 24 Hours

[Sunlei]

Source: abcnews


Storms have dumped more than a foot of rain in the Houston area, flooding dozens of neighborhoods and forcing the closure of city offices and the suspension of public transit.

The National Weather Service says the area received up to 16 inches of rain in the 24 hours through Monday morning.

Mayor Sylvester Turner says city offices will be closed Monday and is encouraging people to stay home and avoid high water areas. Classes have been cancelled for the Houston Independent School District's 215,000 students.

Meteorologist Tom Bradshaw says about 70 Houston subdivisions are flooded, as well as parts of Interstate 10


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/houston-area-submerged-16-inches-rain-24-hours-38479453

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8 inches in my SW Houston area and in the past hour 2 more inches. We're lucky the street storm drains are still draining off this "Extreme Rain"

[hamsterjill]

1. Hang in there!!!

I'm in San Antonio, and we're still reeling from the hail storm from last week, but YOU GUYS are having it rough.

My son-in-law was flying out last night from here last night with a layover in Houston. The plane was diverted to Louisiana.

Take care and be careful.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

2. Yay! Rain day! No school for me.

I live across the street from Braes Bayou near Kirby and strangely I don't flood. Lucky for me, the builders of my complex picked a high spot and built it up even higher. No flooding during the Memorial day Flood or Tropical Storm Allison either. I'm feeling fortunate.

[Sunlei]

8. you're on the dry side of Braes Bayou. It went over the bank last night and all the homes flooded.

The homes on 'wetside' actually re-flooded.

I know a family who had last years Braes Bayou flood their home. Insurance spent about 100k fixing the home. Today Bayou water is halfway up the walls in several neighbor homes. Water rescue had to help them escape their home.

[kentauros]

10. The further 'downstream' that you are, the faster it drains. For now.

There's still plenty of water upstream that hasn't drained, and the bayou outlets can only handle so much water. Same for Galveston Bay. It takes a while for all that water to move out to the Gulf. So, it's gonna back up, and more flooding will take place downstream.

I don't anticipate my SW apartments flooding, either, though a look out the window here shows that the street did flood earlier today. It does that with heavy rains anyway. It's only with a rain like this that I get to see a "water line" in the house's front yard across the street. It looks like it almost peaked! I think they were only about another foot in elevation from getting water in their house.

Braes is our major bayou here, too, with a little tributary 'bayou' draining to the north out of our neighborhood.

Just be careful and don't drive anywhere unless it's an emergency

[Sweet Freedom]

3. And probably more storms tomorrow. :( /nt

[AxionExcel]

4. Meanwhile, Republicans keep claiming climate change is a liberal conspiracy

on the standard, oft-repeated Republican Lies, Inc. that are sloshing around in the Houston flood

[LiberalArkie]

11. It is a Democratic plan to flood out all the Republican states.

[turbinetree]

15. Yepper ....................

Cruzless and Cornyn...............................right along with there buddy up north Imhofe...................

Cornyn

https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?type=C&cid=N00024852&newMem=N&cycle=2016

http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2014/05/cornyn-people-contribute-to-climate-change-but-federal-response-is-not-the-answer.html/


“I am not one that denies that human beings have an impact on the environment,” Cornyn said. “But I am sure not willing to put the federal government in charge of trying to micromanage the environment for the United States of America, nor for us to drive up the price of energy for people on fixed income, like seniors and people of modest means, by putting restrictions in place that other nations are not.”


Imofe

https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2016&cid=N00005582&type=C

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/11/james-inhofe-republican-climate-denier-pope-francis




and lastly

Cruz

https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2016&cid=N00033085&type=C

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/10/3729732/ted-cruz-and-science-have-a-rocky-relationship/

Honk-----------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[snooper2]

5. And it is all heading my way LOL- I've got 8 buckets collecting rain water in my attic

Holes through the sheeting from hail storm last Monday-

Patches only do so good when it is a downpour-

[scottie55]

6. Drown - Climate Change Deniers

Drill baby drill right dumbasses?

Every time I meet any Republican, and I am not at work, I insult them.

I am a nice person, except to Republican Traitors.

I am even nice to Hillary/Wall Street supporters.

[Loki]

7. Lived in Houston for almost 16 years.

Floods are almost a way of life down there. All concrete and no where for water to go.

[braddy]

9. Born and raised Houstonian here, flooding was always common there.

The record for 24 hour rainfall in America is 43 inches in Alvin, Texas on the outskirts of Houston.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Exactly.

I loved down there in the '60s, and the place was always flooding. Terrible drainage.

[mnhtnbb]

13. Lots of photos here

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/man-rescued-on-live-tv-as-monster-storm-floods-parts-of-texas-2016-04-18?link=MW_latest_news

[silvershadow]

14. I remember my youth, when we regularly got 16 inches of rain in a day. NOT.

We didn't get 16 inches of rain in a season. Folks, we are in real trouble.

[B2G]

17. Omega Block. It's a thing.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/us/news/articles/us-weather/southern-california-rain-desert-southwest-arizona-nevada-el-nino-april-2016/66098

[NutmegYankee]

18. The pattern is a known feature, but the moisture content is worse.

But not unexpected.

[KatyMan]

19. Was your youth spent in Houston?

16 inches in a day is a helluva lot of rain, but not unheard of in southeast Texas.

[silvershadow]

21. No it isn't, but if you are basing it on recent climate and weather data (last 30 years or so),

but I guarantee you not only is it much more frequent now (making it seem "normal" to people living in a worldview judged only by their own lifespan and idea of "time&quot , it also wasn't nearly like this 50+ years ago. For some, with age comes wisdom.

[KatyMan]

23. You don't have to be snarky.

And I don't disagree that climate change will make it worse (and already is). My reply wasn't impolite, I was just asking a question, why do you have to respond like an asshole?
"For some, with age comes wisdom"; guess someone missed out on civility?

[silvershadow]

25. I'm not trying to be snarky, and I certainly apologize if it sounds that way. Sincerely.

No, I'm just stated my opinion, from my view. Perhaps I need to change my words. I am just saying that it certainly appears to me to be as I stated. (For the younger folks). People tend to view "time" in the only terms they know, their own lives. As you age, that changes. We are only here for a nanosecond in time. The weather here, and in Houston, has changed over my own lifetime. I have relatives in Texas, and I have been there many times. I do keep up on things that way.

[KatyMan]

27. OK, thanks sorry.

I misread your tone and apologize.

[silvershadow]

28. I've just come off a bunch other posts. Maybe some seemed in. I was really just

trying to be quick with words so i could get back to the others. LOL

[kentauros]

20. The average annual rainfall amount for Houston

has been consistently 50-60 inches for decades. People think we all live in a desert in Texas.

What's unusual about these floods now is that they're taking place in the Spring versus waiting until a tropical depression stalls halfway onshore later in the year.

[Uncle Joe]

16. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Sunlei.

[Gothmog]

22. Water is beginning to go down

Hopefully there will not be less rain tonight

Two deaths have been confirmed. One in Greenspoint and one near the Hardy Toll Road

[Lodestar]

24. Aerial Drone Pictures of Houston Flooding April 2016

I highly recommend turning off the volume on this footage due to the
annoying sound of the drone.

Armadillo Rescue

[Kip Humphrey]

26. Our power was out for 12 hours (no flooding). Unusual since we didn't lose power even for

Hurricane Yikes!

[GreydeeThos]

29. In 1958 blues singer Larry Davis recorded a song titled "Texas Flood"

In 1983 blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan recorded the same song on his first studio album which bears the same name.

https://vimeo.com/92351110

Floods in Texas are not new.

[Zen Democrat]

31. Thanks for the Stevie Ray. Texas Flood is signature SRV.

"Well it's flooding down in Texas ... all of the telephone lines are down"

[Odin2005]

30. Good God, that's about 4/5 of the average yearly precip in my area.