Tropical Storm Edouard

[Kyle]

Alright, heres the Deal. Tropical Storm Edouard is Strengthening rapidly.
At 5 PM it was a 35 MPH Tropical Depression, and now its at 50 MPH with a 5 Millibar Pressure Drop. It looks fairly likely that Gas Prices will rise here shortly, as Its forcasted to near Hurricane Strength. But looking at the latest Hurricane Hunter Trip, It could become a Hurricane overnight.

Edouard is aiming For Houston, were Tex Lives, GregBurch lives, Ect, Space City. I am not to concerned for MCC, however the ISS MCC is a Historic Place, its the same Control Center that was used for Gemini, Apollo, And Early Shuttle.

I will post updates on the progress of the storm, those of you in its path listen to the NHC, and Recon reports.

 

[Zatnikitelman]

I'll stay glued to weather.com/newscenter/tropical. Good luck to all those in the path of this monster.

 

[Kyle]

I highly advise to not Listen to The Weather Channel, only if Dr. Lyons is on.
This was just on their Tropical Update
"..A Tropical disturbance in the gulf is looks poorly organized, no development expected.." Weatherunderground's a good place to go, they know updates way before the Weather Channel does, like NASAspaceflight does for Space related stuff.

 

[astrosammy]

I think it is over Germany now, very, very bad weather here :rofl:.

OK, it's not funny, good luck.

 

[GregBurch]

JSC will be OK -- they took a direct hit of a Cat 3 in 1983 (90 mph+ sustained, 120+ mph gusts). That was Alicia. The apartment we were living in at the time was also right on the track -- my wife and I went out for a walk as the eye passed over us.

The Saturn V out front of JSC is now in an enclosure. It'll be OK.

Eduardo will likely dump a LOT of rain on us, given the track. The biggest threat will be flooding, but Houston's made enormous improvements in flood control in the last ten years (I know because I got a lot of legal work from the flooding we had in the old days).

Naturally, the biggest case I have going right now has a hearing scheduled the day the storm is scheduled to hit .... aaaarrgghhh.

 

[Quick_Nick]

I don't expect much out of this storm.(especially compared to others we've had) We did have a TON of lightning just earlier but it seems to have cleared up for the most part in my area for the time being.(there are still lots of storm clouds) Only a few minutes ago, the smell of gasoline was floating around. I thought maybe someone just spilled something around here, but then after a few minutes the smell disappeared.(the smell was floating around a fairly large area too) Not sure what's up with that, but it probably isn't anything.(probably IS just a small spill here)
btw, I honestly didn't know we had a storm coming until today
I can't be sure how much worse this will get in later days though... Tropical storm conditions are expected here tonight and tomorrow.(I'm hoping the marching part of our band practice is cancelled! XD)

 

[joeybigO]

That big 'ol storm is headed up my way, It's more NE of me, but i'm getting a small outbreak just to the east of me, and with the daytime temps, it should sustain for a night storm.

However, from what Dolly brought it brought a LOT of rain here (San Antonio) so i'm sure it will do the same, historically you can cut the upper prediction track and the lower prediction track and that's the path that it usually takes. See Dolly history and other histories on wunderground.com

Tuesday it only looks like a 20% chance of rain, however i'm going to out on a limb here and give it about a 60% with my prediction, and give it about a 80% on Wednesday.

 

[Kyle]

Dolly caught Texas folks by surprise.

 

[Tex]

Thank you for the safe wishes guys, means a lot!

Hopefully we don't loose power. We're heading to the marina tomorrow to secure the boat and will be securing things around the house here. They don't seem to think it'll get much worse than a Cat-1, so we should be OK, but it's still a worry for sure! We don't need another Allison that sat over us for ever dropping a ton of rain and flooding the area.

 

[GregBurch]

We don't need another Allison that sat over us for ever dropping a ton of rain and flooding the area.

I can tell you that at least hundreds of millions and maybe billions of dollars have been spent around the city since Allison (and before that Francis -- remember Francis?!?? aaaarrrggghh) implementing lessons learned from those flooding incidents. One of the main lessons was getting electrical equipment and emergency generators up off the ground (or worse yet, up from underground) and relocating them in higher, drier places. A whole lot of that heavy construction you've seen around the city over the last five years or so has been heavy flood-control work, building retaining ponds, bayou broadening and clearing and flood gates.

I'm actually pretty interested to see how well all those projects worked out if we do end up getting one of our famous tropical inundations.

It was all about time, since we are the fourth largest city in the US (soon to be third largest) and live smack dab in the middle of a tropical coastal swamp

 

[Kyle]

This is going to be more of a Rain Event, Landfall near Galveston and head into houston.
Possibly landfall as a CAT 2.

 

[Urwumpe]

Even a small Hurricane is no natural force, you can't mitigate. I am pretty confident you will not get a second Katrina. The worst will be the combination of rain and flooding, but Houston is not like New Orleans, which was suddenly surrounded by water from all 6 directions.

 

[Bullethead]

We don't need another Allison that sat over us for ever dropping a ton of rain and flooding the area.

I can tell you that at least hundreds of millions and maybe billions of dollars have been spent around the city since Allison (and before that Francis -- remember Francis?!?? aaaarrrggghh) implementing lessons learned from those flooding incidents.

I certainly hope you all come through OK, and that the new flood control stuff works. Allison was a real pain even here in Lousy Anna. It took us by surprise and nobody expected it to amount to anything because it was just a tropical storm that popped into existence and came ashore the same day. But then it sat and flooded us unmercifully, before drifting your way doing the same. That little tropical storm caused us more damage than most of the hurricanes in recent times. All from flooding--the wind never was that strong.

It's a strange thing living on the Gulf Coast. OT1H, you've seen 1st hand what hurricanes can do and don't want that to happen to anybody. OTOH, you know they're coming every year so you're constantly wishing them off on somebody else along the coast. So when one does go somewhere else, you have a mixture of relief that it wasn't you, and guilt that maybe prayers from your area caused suffering in another. And sometimes that's all coupled with annoyance that the thing was too far away for you to get a nice, gentle rain out of the edge of it to help with the summer drought. It's a somewhat twisted state of mind. Why do we all keep living here?

 

[GregBurch]

Why do we all keep living here?

Because it's the cheapest, most free part of the country and we have the best food and the best music?

 

[Bullethead]

Because it's the cheapest, most free part of the country and we have the best food and the best music?

True, but moreso in my native Lone Star Republic than my Lousy Anna exile .

FWIW, the outer edges of the storm are going by here at present and we've gotten a little rain, but not really enough to count towards the drought. No wind at all. Looks like the current forecast at Weatherunderground is it to remain a tropical storm through landfall, so fingers crossed for you on that.

 

[GregBurch]

True, but moreso in my native Lone Star Republic than my Lousy Anna exile .

Yes -- Louisiana is free in the sense that it's ungovernable and you can do whatever you can get away with and pay some corrupt gvt official to turn a blind eye to -- that's a kind of freedom, isn't it?

But the food and music are damned good!

(My mother was from Nawlins, and half the blood in my veins is gumbo from St. Bernard Parish going back to the middle of the 18th century, so I have a soft but scary spot in me heart for all the creepy bayou hoodoo.)

FWIW, the outer edges of the storm are going by here at present and we've gotten a little rain, but not really enough to count towards the drought. No wind at all. Looks like the current forecast at Weatherunderground is it to remain a tropical storm through landfall, so fingers crossed for you on that.

I think it'll be OK -- I'm buttoning up here in the Batcave for tomorrow, staying off the roads and working by candle light if I have to. All the courthouses will be closed tomorrow, but plan to be back up and running on Wed. AM.

 

[Arrowstar]

I think it'll be OK -- I'm buttoning up here in the Batcave for tomorrow, staying off the roads and working by candle light if I have to. All the courthouses will be closed tomorrow, but plan to be back up and running on Wed. AM.

As long as the power stays on, makes for awesome addon development time. :rofl:

In all seriousness, stay safe, those of you who live on the storm's track.

 

[Bullethead]

Yes -- Louisiana is free in the sense that it's ungovernable and you can do whatever you can get away with and pay some corrupt gvt official to turn a blind eye to -- that's a kind of freedom, isn't it?

But the food and music are damned good!

My opinion exactly. OTOH, we're civilized Texans. The natives here seem to like it just fine. Graft and corruption are so embedded in the culture here that everybody takes it for granted and knows how to deal with it. However, it shocks the conscience of anybody from the real world, no matter how long you've been exiled here .

(My mother was from Nawlins, and half the blood in my veins is gumbo from St. Bernard Parish going back to the middle of the 18th century, so I have a soft but scary spot in me heart for all the creepy bayou hoodoo.)

I hope your family came through Katrina OK. Nawlins gets all the media attention, but it got off easy, really. Plaquemine and St. Bernard parishes took the real hit, and then the Biloxi area. But you don't hear them whining about it still today, they didn't shoot at rescue helicopters at the time, and their refugees didn't start new crime waves everywhere they went. And meanwhile, nobody says a peep about the devastation caused by Rita.

I think it'll be OK

Here's hoping. It'll probably be my turn next :sorry:

 

[Tex]

Tropical Storm Tip: Board up your windows and spend all day cleaning up around the house to make the storm turn. :lol:

Looks like we dodged it so far, might get a little wind and rain, but Houston looks to be on the dry side if it keeps tracking like it is now. I was kinda looking forward to a bit more rain than we'll get on the dry side though, we need it. No wonder NASA picked Houston for mission control, something about this area that keeps turning the storms away from us. Same thing happened with Rita, this storm looks to make landfall some what close to the same area.

 

[Deke]

As a Katrina survivor.

May I say... Better you than us.