Saturday, August 26, 2017

Harvey is hurting South Texas, but not Houston (yet)

The floods are coming.

There are several tornado warnings, most expiring, as this posts, around the southwest metro area (Fort Bend County and thereabouts).


A few of the same to the east of Houston (Liberty County).  Plenty of rain and wind overnight but nothing spectacular.


Worst of the rain still to come, especially if Harv decides to double-back and come at us from Corpus.


My go-to weatherman says there's still no predicting where he goes next.  So we wait.
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Friday, August 25, 2017

Harvey


It's always best to leaven pending calamity with a little humor, after all.  We're all hoping Harvey turns out to be that large invisible rabbit from that old Jimmy Stewart movie.  Probably he's going to show up as something considerably more real.


No, it's Friday, Steve.  All the way to Monday, and maybe a few days after.


The petrochemical industry from Galveston to Houston is an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen, according to scientists who have used models to predict a worst-case scenario for the Gulf Coast. Roy Scranton, an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, described their efforts in a Times opinion essay last year.

Among the predictions from one modeled scenario: “More than 200 petrochemical storage tanks have been wrecked, more than 100 million gallons of petroleum and chemicals spilled. Damages for the region are estimated at more than $100 billion. More than 3,500 are dead.”

Read more if you feel like it.
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