It sounds really bad. This came in this morning from ENENews. I hope people are getting out of the way.
Washington Post, Aug 24, 2017:
The extremely dangerous storm is predicted to strengthen and plow into southeast Texas on Friday… An incredible amount of rain… up to 35 inches, is predicted along the middle and upper Texas coast, because the storm is expected to stall and unload torrents for four to six straight days… Marshall Shepherd, a past-president of the American Meteorological Society, tweeted that he feared an “epic flood catastrophe.”… “In all these years, it’s rare that I’ve seen a hurricane threat that concerns me as much as this one does,” said Rick Knabb, hurricane expert at The Weather Channel and formerly the director of the National Hurricane Center… So much rain is predicted that the National Weather Service had to add a new high-end category to its forecast map…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/08/24/rapidly-strengthening-harvey-forecast-to-slam-east-texas-as-major-hurricane-and-stall/
WOAI, Aug 24, 2017
Hurricane Harvey is setting its sights on the area around Corpus Christi… Located not far from where Harvey is expected to make landfall is the South Texas Nuclear Project nuclear power plant. Spokesman Buddy Eiler says the facility was ‘designed to sustain a storm,’ and there are plans in place to shut down operations if necessary…
http://woai.iheart.com/content/2017-08-24-evacuations-begin-as-harvey-approaches-coastal-bend/
STP Nuclear Operating Co., Aug 24, 2017:
It is expected to intensify to a Category 3 hurricane before landfall… Significant flooding is likely for much of coastal and southeast Texas…
Bloomberg, Aug 25, 2017:
“We are expecting catastrophic, life-threatening flooding in Southeastern Texas,” said Carl Erickson, a senior meteorologist for AccuWeather…
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-OV698L6JTSE801-6ST2O1SN21SOHN6FNS5P9D4FHD
KENS transcript, Aug 24, 2017:
“Double-digit rainfall totals — and some nearly apocalyptic — are within reach. I mean this really could go to 20, 30 inches of rain.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oo5xLa8GBI
CBS News transcript, Aug 24, 2017:
“We are talking epic flooding is possible in Eastern Texas — and that’s not an exaggeration.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-56EQ4lP2I
http://enenews.com/biblical-hurricane-expected-to-hit-us-nuclear-plant-experts-fear-epic-catastrophe-rainfall-could-be-nearly-apocalyptic-borderline-unfathomable-unprecedented
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