jlf1961
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Folks, my youngest sister lives in Houston, in a very well off neighborhood.
A half block from her home is an area that is listed on flood insurance forms as an 800 year flood zone, which means it will be flooded once in 800 years. They tied their boat up at the stop sign at the intersection that is under three feet of water when they went to feed their pets today, and then moved all the furniture from the first floor to the second floor.
The amount of rain the area has received is considered a millennial flood, meaning once in a thousand years, or to put in very simple terms, there really aint no place in Houston that will be above water if it continues to rain like this for more than a day longer.
Harvey has set rain fall records for the continental US, and is closing in for the rainfall record for the entire US at 52 inches.
No Atlantic or gulf storm has had this much rainfall.
Oh, when sis left the house today, they took their pets out as well.
Once every 800 years?
This storm was biblical in so many ways, thanks for sharing.
I hope your sister's home is salvageable, with that amount of water damage.
Please let us know, I am picturing her moving everything to the second floor now.
Wow
Last I talked to her, their home and six neighbors were still above the water level.
However, the other homes in the neighborhood, of which the lowest appraised value is $698,000 have not been so lucky.
Bosco, as I stated in another thread, the water of the gulf is warmer by about 3 degrees than average this year. I am not going to make the claim it is or is not related to climate change (global warming is only part of the problem, since some areas are getting warmer, and some a hell of a lot colder.)
That warmer than average western gulf fed Harvey and he in turn sucked it up like a calf on his mothers tit.
I am not going to buy into "humans are the sole cause of the phenomenon" either. Human activity helped create the problem, but the climate was doing weird things as far back as the seventies, and everyone noticed then but was at a loss as to why. The whole "humans are to blame" crap that has come out in the last decade is what is causing the controversy.
If you look at the past history of the planet, Earth should be entering a cooling period, if you go by the average warming cooling cycle, but mother nature does nothing on a schedule. If she did, Yellowstone would have blown up 50 thousand years ago, the arcadia mega thrust fault along the north west coast would have ruptured 50 years ago, and there would have been a minimum of an 8.0 quake in southern California ten years ago.
However, looking at the history of the earth's climate, everything that should have triggered even a small ice age that has happened in the last 150 years hasnt. And we have only been burning large amounts of fossil fuels at 'catastrophic' levels in the last 60 or so years.
So humans as the direct cause of climate change, I dont think so, but something is happening and the far left makes it humanity's fault. My personal opinion, is that yes, human activity has had some limited impact on climate.
However, as a ham radio operator, I can tell you that solar activity, which would affect climate in major ways, has been above average for over a decade. Hell I have shot skip on my FM rig that should have a range of less than 150 miles and gotten clear signals from as far away as Maine, and a couple of times had periods of clear signals from Europe, on FM, which is unheard of.
And the only thing that can cause that is a abnormally large amount of solar magnetic influence on the atmosphere. On AM and ssb, I have had clear convos with people in Australia, which is possible, but rare with the limited power of an amateur rig.
So, while every climate scientist is pointing fingers at pollution, I am asking the really stupid question, why cant the sun be adding to the problem? There is one team at NASA asking that question while three teams are pointing at people.
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