Hurricane Harvey
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Could still be bad. Cue up Stevie Ray Vaughan for Texas flooding and anybodies version of Levee Breaks for Mississippi River flooding. Old blues standards show us this ain't no new phenomena.
Well there's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
And I've been tryin' to call my baby
Lord and I can't get a single sound
Maybe, but the national weather service has been very clear that the issue with this storm was going to be the rain amounts and the fact that the storm wasn't going to move much over the next few days. Also, almost all hurricanes get downgraded to a 1 after they make landfall. That's normal and expected.
So you are gonna compare a major cat 5 hurricane with winds that peaked around 175 mph that happened to go over a city that is below sea level to another hurricane that was a cat 4 with peak winds around 130 mph? That hardly isn't fair to compare any storm to Katrina- it was the costliest hurricane ever and the 5th deadly hurricane ever in the US.
It's not overhyped- people listened to the warnings ahead of the storm and evacuated. The loss of life is zero which I believe would be the gold standard of a storm this size NOT being overhyped.
I have family that has a house less than a 1000m from the shore in Port Arkansas ( where it hit) saw pictures and while the roads and other are in bad shape the berms and the construction requirements of homes seemed to hold up. Very encouraged. Now the rain could lead to flooding but round 1 is won.
That is ridiculous and wrong. The hype saves lives. If you don't want to hear about it - change the channel.
They have been acting like it would be comparable is the problem.
Honestly short term it probably does but long term it hurts. If after so many times of overhyped storms your actually going to get one that needs the hype then people aren't going to take it as seriously. It is important to be as accurate as possible. While it is good to error on the side of caution we have to worry about going to far.
I mean - that's a legit concern if it petered out or veered off and did nothing. But it's the first Cat 4 storm to hit Texas since 1961, destroying several small towns that were hit with 120+mph winds. AND it will likely be the WORST flooding event in Texas history, if not US history. Houston is much bigger that NOLA and is very susceptible to flooding - and is forecasted to get 30+ inches of rain. Calling it "overhyped" when the worst effects haven't happened yet is irresponsible and ridiculous.
Body count can't be how you judge hype level - zero dead is always what needs to be expected, but it doesn't mean the storm was "over hyped", it means it was properly prepared for.
Yes, the news reported that NOLA was spared the worst of it after Katrina made landfall, only to have Lake Ponchartrain later swell and overtake the levees and cause massive flooding as the pumps couldn't keep up. I remember the live news shots during that storm as they prematurely claimed victory.
Um, wasn't Katrina a category 3 storm? It wasn't a category 5, unless I'm misreading your post. You do correctly point out the major difference in the storms however. New Orleans sits over a foot below sea level. A foot...below. By comparison, the average elevation relative to sea level for the land impacted by Harvey is around 10 feet above.
Harvey is a stronger storm than Katrina was. Location is what made Katrina.
And the fact that there was a ton of morons out partying and drinking on bourbon street thinking it'd be a fun time.
Came here to check out word on the storm. Are there legitimately people ******** about how the storm wasn't as bad as hyped and didn't destroy as much property and kill people? You guys must be the NASCAR fans that just watch for the wrecks.
I guess we don't know about this one yet but I think we've had quite a few the last few years that haven't lived up to the hype. I don't really follow hurricanes that much I was more speaking from a snow storm point of view.
I mean, you know it's a hurricane and not a tornado, right? The worst doesn't happen when the storm hits, it's the aftermath.
Seems a bit premature to say when the storm is still active for the next several days from the sound of it.
