WrittenPost: Hurricane Harvey...

FINAL ( !!! ) UPDATE:
Noon Wednesday, 30-Aug-2017

Wooo Hooo !!!

The sun is out, skies over Houston and the Texas Central Gulf Coast are clear...

...and the ran has STOPPED !!!!

Unfortunately, this (damn) storm is still churning.

Now East Texas is getting it, then on to N. Louisiana and Arkansas.

We are not asking to give our water to our neighbors...

...but we are "not in a position to receive any further water at the moment..."

So, now we clean up and move forward.

Cada dia adelante !!

Many thanks again for the support of all our friends around the world !!

-Mark

UPDATE:
21:45 Monday (about 72 hours from landfall)

U.S. National Weather Service reports the center (of Harvey)
is now 55 mi (90km) east of Port O’Connor, Texas (see blue line)
Moving ESE (back out into the Gulf) at 3 mph. (that is very slow...)

At my house, we are just reaching the 30 inch mark (75cm in last 72 hours).

Rain was as least moderate all day today.
An additional 8-12” (20-30cm) predicted now through Tuesday midnight.

Local flood control reservoirs have reached capacity,

requiring release of water into already swollen drainage ways.
I can’t imagine how many homes must have water in them tonight.

-M

UPDATE:
05:00 Monday
Maybe...we're about done. (Maybe...)

Harris County Flood Warning Rail Gauges:
https://www.harriscountyfws.org/

My house is near the "24.08" in the lower-center of the frame. My office is near the "24.00" at top-center of frame. These are "inches of rain falling since the event began on Friday." Yes...24 inches...60cm. I've been around a long time now. I saw more rainfall than that associated with a single storm...once.

Storm circulation continues, believe it or not, now 55 hours after landfall, and it's a bad-case scenario because the storm's center is still near Victoria, (86.5 miles to SW), with the storm's "ass-end" continuing to linger out over the very warm, hurricane-producing waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The long "feeder-band" you can see stretches out more than 600 miles (1000km) pulling in Gulf moisture (freakin' RAIN) like a big-ass fire hose.

But, fortunately, as you can see from the mostly white area surrounding Houston, the destination for this water is shifting, however slowly, to the east. Our buddies in Beaumont-Lake Charles will feel it today. Heads up Eastern Friends...as the center of the storm moves out over water again, as expected today, re-strengthening is expected. This will continue...

That's it for now.
- "Mark out"

UPDATE:

21:15 Sunday

Well, a little after 9pm Sunday, the Harris County Flood Warning Map says we've had 20.6" (52cm) rain at my house since rain began on Friday, about 46 hours ago.

The storm center is less defined now, but rotation continues (around the area of Victoria on the map), and you can see the rain bands streaming in from the Gulf are edging East of Houston (though the "Yellow-Red" shows you it's raining quite hard here at the moment). It's not that we wish all this on our Louisiana brethren, but we can't keep taking it here ! ;-)

- Mark

UPDATE:

05:30 Sunday

Storm still has formation, still has it's "legs" out over the warm water of the Gulf.

The "red dragon" continues to stream ashore...

My house has now received more than 12: (30cm)...and raining quite hard now.

There are two "High" Pressure systems, one to NW, one to NE, holding the now Tropical Storm Harvey on top of us.

Landfall was about 11pm Friday, about 36 hours ago.

We've got at least another 36 hours of this rain to go...

Y'all hang in.

- Mark

Greetings !
It's about 5:30am Houston Time, Saturday morning..
Steady rain outside, but not much wind here in Houston.

The eye of Hurricane Harvey made landfall about 6 hours ago, near Rockport, Texas.
Eye now 133 miles (220km) southwest of Houston. Rain getting heavier in the last couple of minutes. Interesting thing, storm is still Category 1 Hurricane, and still very well formed, even though eye has now been over land for +6 hours.

The more difficult ting however, is speed...it doesn't have any. I don't mean wind speed. In fact it spun up rapidly as it approached the coast. It was first predicted to make landfall only as a Tropical Storm, or maybe Category 1...but it pumped up to a 130 mph (210kph) Cat 4 before it hit land.

The speed I'm talking about, is speed of movement. This photo from 08:00 Friday morning, 22 hours ago...moving only 7-8 miles per hour, and expected to slow down even more.