A simple request to the family… we all know the importance of a good flashlight on a stormy night when the power goes out and trees are down and such… well, tonight a major Hurricane (Harvey) is pounding into the Coast of Texas as a category 4 Hurricane. It’s at Aransas Pass, just North of Corpus Christi, making landfall even now. It’s expected to actually rotate back out into the Gulf and regain strength and then hit just South of Houston late Sat night or Sunday morning.
This means millions of people will be facing power outages, flooding, and all kinds of wind damage with sustained winds reported in excess of 130 mph.
So my simple request of the BLF forum family is to say a prayer for those folks down South of me. If prayer isn’t your thing, just simple good wishes will suffice.
There are area’s here that may well receive between 24 and 36” of rainfall in less than 24 hours! The storm is expected to stall out and dump rain on the area for several days. Looks like it may be one of the worst in 50 years.
This image is from earlier this morning, over 12 hours old. The eye of the storm is making landfall and a LOT of rain has already fallen throughout the day…
This image is from the International Space Station about 3 hours ago, 7:33 PM…
My God, those images puts a huge amount of fear in me, ligtnings and wind funnels are the top of nature fury that made me afraid :cry:
I pray to God for those peoples which have hit by this disaster, this is very sad :cry:
Unfortunately in brazil we have some similar cases, “we” are “harvesting what we planted” (a brazilian proverb/saying). Brazil was devasted, our country have only 8% of native/total of forests and after that demoniac devastation (in 2012 was the last bigger but not last) some caotic conditions start to beggining……
We have now tornadoes (some tornadoes had passed here, but in 60 years we can count with the fingers in ONE hand, now, in one year have passed 15 :person_facepalming: ), some commons areas in northeast now is completing 3 years which not rain ( the rain was going progressively since 2000 until to no more one raindrop…. those areas are desert now), huge storms combined with long term droughts cause deadly floods and another problems which reaps lives in large scale.
I know someone living down there working for NASA who I’ve known since 1980 (high school) so of course my hopes and best wishes are with those affected.
anyone hear from texas lumens? he’s the only one I can think of that I dealt with from texas (there have been others, but my memory isn’t what it used to be). best wishes and prayers to all down there. I feel your pain, having been thru 4 hurricanes, and severe snowstorms, all with power outages (which was actually the good part, being a flashaholic).
Texas Lumens (Dan) is way up in the panhandle area of Texas. Likely he won’t even see any rain from this storm. Fear not, they have they’re own Mother Nature issues up there!
Franz, geesh man! Prayers to your people as well, it’s been a long couple of decades for y’all and sounds like life has changed a lot for a great many. Best to ya……
Nice Dale, reading I expected you to request everyone in the yo be affected area to change cells and distribute flashlights in the neighborhood
Prayers and wishes will do
I have family in Houston and been praying for them as well,as everyone else in the path of this monster storm. Let’s hope it settles down quick and the damage is minimal.
I know they always like to talk about worst case scenario’s, and that’s probably the way it should be, but it’s looking like if there was any way for a storm this size to make landfall and do a “least-case-scenario” that may well be what’s happening. It appears to have sandwiched in between heavily populated areas and did not reverse course, did not head towards Houston, so a lot of rain is falling and a lot of flooding issues but the worst case scenario may have been avoided.
Attribute this to what you will, luck or divine intervention, whatever. From what I’m seeing, as bad as things are for a whole lot of people, it sure could have been a Lot worse… still ongoing, ain’t over til it’s over…