Hurricane Harvey Third Anniversary

[STxVortex]

Today, 24 August 2020, marks the time three years ago when Hurricane Harvey began an RI in the Gulf of Mexico, as TS Laura appears ready to do shortly this evening.

Harvey, in his Texas impacts, was actually two very different behaving storms.

The initial fierce destructive high Cat 4 landfall on San Jose Island and the Rockport, TX area, then an inland excursion of about 80-90 miles NNE, with a loop-de-loop and subsequent ESE track back out to the GOM was one devastating event. The second event had a much different effect, with Harvey's further Gulf tracking and landfall east of Galveston and Houston in LA, which dumped billions of tons of rainfall, up to five feet in places, but had little wind. It all added up to the US's second most costly 'cane.

Y'all maybe contrast and compare Laura with Harvey.

I'll put a few links and images below. I'll try [later] to also add a few personal photos taken just before Harvey blasted into my homeport of Rockport. I got out in the last safe few hours, after securing my boat in it's slip and scooting for my inland home, which Harvey got real close to following me. Along with a few post-storm pics from various sources. This is difficult as my internet sucks.  [hope I can edit later]

References ---

Corpus Christi, TX > Major Hurricane Harvey - August 25-29, 2017 [comprehensive report]:

https://www.weather.gov/crp/hurricane_harvey

Hurricane Harvey Summary PDF [88pages]:

https://www.weather.gov/media/crp/Hurricane_Harvey_Summary_Rockport.pdf

Western Gulf of Mexico Tropical Cyclones from 1851 to 2018:

https://www.weather.gov/crp/tropical_cyclone_tracks

2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/index.php?season=2017&basin=atl

NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT
HURRICANE HARVEY (AL092017)  [77pages]:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092017_Harvey.pdf

Hurricane HARVEY Advisory Archive:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2017/HARVEY.shtml?

HARVEY Graphics Archive:  [quite interesting...]
Initial Wind Field and Watch/Warning Graphic:
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2017/HARVEY_graphics.php

 

[the ghost of leroy]

Jeff P and the blue shed. Never forget the sacrifices made for our entertainment. 

[STxVortex]

8 minutes ago, the ghost of leroy said:

Jeff P and the blue shed. Never forget the sacrifices made for our entertainment. 

LOL.  Ramen to that. That blue shed is about a mile north of my marina, iirc. It's pretty  close to Albys Seafood restaurant, yum... 

http://www.albysseafood.com/

[dan11295]

49 minutes ago, the ghost of leroy said:

Jeff P and the blue shed. Never forget the sacrifices made for our entertainment. 

Ike gave us the guy in the bear suit , Harvey gave us the blue shed

[STxVortex]

A few pictures to show some before - after destruction wrought by Harvey.

Driving N on Hwy 35 into Rockport, boat drystack buildings, center pic with blue uppers; Harvey's landfall about 24 hours away, sky beginning to show initial pre-storm cumulus.

Drystack buildings astern of boat, outside building lights above foot, left of box on cabinttop. ~12 hours before landfall, break between rainbands.

 

After Hurricane Harvey, destroyed drystacks, boat slip beyond wrecked buildings.

 

Rockport welcome sign [?, maybe something else, new subdv at 35-188?], before landfall rearranged things.

 

[the ghost of leroy]

1 minute ago, STxVortex said:

A few pictures to show some before - after destruction wrought by Harvey.

Driving N on Hwy 35 into Rockport, boat drystack buildings, center pic with blue uppers; Harvey's landfall about 24 hours away, sky beginning to show initial pre-storm cumulus.

Drystack buildings astern of boat, outside building lights above foot, left of box on cabinttop. ~12 hours before landfall, break between rainbands.

 

After Hurricane Harvey, destroyed drystacks, boat slip beyond wrecked buildings.

 

Rockport welcome sign [?, maybe something else, new subdv at 35-188?], before landfall rearranged things.

 

dont let those fresh ass kicks touch that hatch

[STxVortex]

LOL, I been messing around boats since the late '50s-'60s, ain't never got all the mold and mildew 'gone' from surfaces at all times. I had crawled through that hatch a couple of times already.

Was securing things as best I could, and stripping everything valuable to go home [electronics, sails, etc]. Expected to lose it, pieces of flying debris did considerable damage.