This is how bad the flooding in Texas is..

[Bouncer]

Before and after.. Crazy shit.

[boricuarage79]

What in the actual fuck? What cause this massive flood.. I know people on Facebook posting pics, but what caused it...
Like new Orleans with the levees?

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[Turbo3000]

What in the actual fuck? What cause this massive flood.. I know people on Facebook posting pics, but what caused it...
Like new Orleans with the levees?

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Exactly.

Houston is 50 feet above sea level.

[boricuarage79]

Had to look it up

) Why was the storm itself so bad?

Hurricane Harvey landed off the Gulf coast near Rockport, Texas, Friday night as a Category 4 storm with 130 mph winds. Since then, the storm has barely moved, even as its winds downgraded to tropical storm strength. Why? A few reasons.

Upper-level winds in the atmosphere usually steer big hurricanes and keep them moving after they make landfall. With Harvey, those steering winds broke down, and a high pressure system to the northwest kept Harvey*locked in place.

That’s why Harvey is such a catastrophic rainfall disaster. It just keeps dumping heaps of rain over a very wide area around Houston. Forty-two inches of rain — nearly 4 feet — have been recorded in some areas. “To get that much rain, over a wide area, and have the coastal areas elevated with storm surge — the waters are going to struggle to drain,” Needham said.

Here’s another way to think about the scale of rain dumped by the remnants of Hurricane Harvey. According to*meteorologist Ryan Maue*at*WeatherBell, as of Monday afternoon, around 14 trillion to 15 trillion gallons of water had fallen on Houston and its surrounding areas. (The calculation is simple, he says on Twitter: It’s depth of rain multiplied by the number of*square miles covered.) And 5 trillion more gallons are still expected to come.



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[Bouncer]

"5 trillion more gallons are still expected to come".

Well I guess we are down to 49 States and a new Great Lake then.

[boricuarage79]

Staying hydrated

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[rado]

I've experienced, Hugo, Andrew and Katrina, through Florida...some of the worst ever to hit land.

I feel their pain, shits no joke to go through that.

[rado]

When Katrina hit us, we lost ALL power for 22 days in Aventura. Curfew of sundown....literally all you could see is stars and moon lol....complete black out

[boricuarage79]

I've experienced, Hugo, Andrew and Katrina, through Florida...some of the worst ever to hit land.

I feel their pain, shits no joke to go through that.

Where were you on Hugo? I was 9 years old in PR... shit hit us hard

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[rado]

Where were you on Hugo? I was 9 years old in PR... shit hit us hard

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Tampa...

[A$AP]

I live in this area and I'm evacuating now. That picture is about thirty minutes from where I live, this shit is wild

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[Bouncer]

80% of people there have no flood insurance... they are fucked.

[Bouncer]

The worst flooding in US history.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017...r-be-the-same/

[rado]

The worst flooding in US history.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017...r-be-the-same/

Saw that....160 billion

[A$AP]

My house is literally ten minutes away from where these pictures were taken. How my house doesn't have any water in it is beyond me.

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