Evacuations ordered, homes damaged in Texas as rivers surge to Hurricane Harvey levels

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Weather

Updated 10:48 PM EDT, Fri May 3, 2024


CNN — Flooding is intensifying in Texas in the wake of strong storms and heavy rainfall, sweeping away vehicles, damaging homes and triggering evacuations.

This week’s storms were just the latest in a series of brutal weather events that have pounded the state since early April.

Dozens of tornadoes have hit from the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast, some areas of the state have been pounded with softball-sized hail and months of rain has fallen in East Texas in intense spurts, causing rivers to rise to levels not seen since the devastating floods of Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Some communities north of Houston picked up nearly two months’ worth of rain Thursday. This rainfall plunged roadways underwater and forced rivers to overflow, leading to evacuations and water rescues.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/weather/texas-houston-flooding-tornadoes/index.html

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I know many on DU monitored and/or lived through what was happening with Hurricane Harvey (a Cat 4) in TX, with some areas getting upwards of 40+" of rain due to the storm stalling, drifting out to the GOM, and then coming back in again.

[TeamProg]

1. Yikes! I think our landlady, Mother Nature, is delivering eviction notices. nt

[dalton99a]

2. In preparation Pastor Osteen has locked all doors to his church

[KS Toronado]

4. Again? And one day before Sunday services?

[trusty elf]

11. snake oil and water don't mix!

[TBF]

3. We are south of Houston & escaped the flooding of Harvey

we had the rain but also live in a pretty new area with excellent drainage & retention ponds.

Folks northeast of our city have not been so fortunate the past week. It is areas from Humble up to Conroe - not the wealthiest parts of our city - and the structures are being overcome. Lina Hidalgo has been great with trying to get folks evacuated.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2024/northeast-houston-flooding-photos/

[lonely bird]

5. Maybe because of the anti-gay bigotry?

Just wonderin’

[txwhitedove]

6. I'm just northeast of Houston, and fine right now. The San Jacinto River has a long history of flooding.

It starts 70 miles north of me around Huntsville, and has two forks ultimately emptying into Lake Houston. Along the way thru the heavy rain, both forks pick up water and debri from creeks and bayous, and one going thru Lake Conroe. My house is not in a flood plain, however, we have problems when Lake Conroe is overrun and they release the dam, like during Hurricane Harvey. Houston area is the 3rd coast, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and essentially blue. My neighborhood has been a happy mix of black, white, Hispanic, and gay families.

Nature f'g happens!

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I have been to Houston and to Galveston

so have seen that area. I still crack up about the ride from Hobby to our hotel in Galveston in a white van, and by the time we got to the hotel, the entire van was literally covered in bug splats.

[TxGuitar]

9. Love bugs

Annual occurrence in late spring. They don't bite or sting. Just make a mess on grills and windshield s

[BumRushDaShow]

10. LOL

Galveston was also the first time I saw fire ants.

They were swarming around a trashcan by the hotel pool.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. Whole mounds will float during the floods

It's one of the reasons you shouldn't walk through flood waters.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. I've seen pics of that

where they form huge floating "masses" of ants to get much of the rest of the colony to dry land (with obvious "sacrifices" ).

[AllaN01Bear]

8. eek.

[NanaCat]

13. Now imagine that phone call

Governor Hot Wheels has to make to Biden asking for FEMA aid.

I'm not as nice as Biden. I'd make him beg for his supper. And beg hard.

Or treat him like a cat with a mouse--toy with the poor thing before ending its misery.