According to the AP, a total of 31.40 inches of rain has fallen since the rainy season began on July 1, making it the fifth wettest season on record, according to the National Weather Service. The record, 38.18 inches, was set in 1883-1884.
Will we break the record? Stay tuned.
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1. thetexastimesdude:File this under “MOVIES and FLOODS” !!!
I hope you don’t break our rainfall record.
This area ( Dickinson-Alvin between Houston and Galveston Texas) holds it for the most rain ever to fall on the continental U.S. in one day since we have been keeping records: 43 inches in 24 hours, measured at Alvin, Texas in July 1979 [where much of "Sugarland Express" was filmed, and the home of baseball pitching great Nolan Ryan, in fact, he now owns one of the banks so I guess he probably owns much of the town! :^D ]
We lived downstream a few miles on Dickinson Bayou, and wound up with 4 feet of water in the house, and 9 feet of water in the street in front of the house. [ More History and Film asides: the Bayou and the area are named after Captain Dickinson of the Alamo, who once owned it all, obviously before the battle of the Alamo. It is also the home of Apollo Mission Control Flight Director Gene Kranz of Apollo 13 fame; and the place where the film "Mission to Mars" begins. ]
I was in Alvin at the time, had taken some little kids to see “Star Wars” at the local theater.
The worst part of the storm, the part which dumped most of the water that actually brought on the flood, hit during the first great battle scene, when the crew of the M. Falcon was busily shooting down Imperial fighters WWII style in gun turrets.
As a result, it took a while for me to separate the roar of the storm outside from the roar of the Star Wars battle scene. It slowly dawned on me that I was hearing something big going on outside! “Hey, guys, what the heck is that? That’s not the battle? ” I asked the kids.
I walked out for a look, and my gawd, even after riding out five hurricanes here, I have never seen another rainstorm like it. The rain was coming down in a solid sheet, like standing in front of ( or would that be behind?) what I can only describe as a piece of Niagra Falls.
The streets in front of the theater turned into raging rivers travelling at about 50 miles an hour. We were on high ground at the theater, and I realized these rivers in the streets were well over my head.
Back in Dickinson, my poor parents were trapped in the attic of their home, but later something extraordinary happened!
As the flood began to slowly recede the ABC-Houston Channel 13 news crew came down my father’s street in a ski boat, and my father’s employees ( he was a Union industrial contractor who built oil refineries for a living ) saw the flooded home on the television screen.
It did not take these Union construction guys long to hitch up a fishing boat and perform a rescue.
Now how is all that, Mr. Simon, for recognition that we live in the age of the mass media?
I must be trapped in a movie or a tv show or something!
Regards,
Tom Tyler
Dickinson, Texas
Feb 22, 2005 - 2:31 am 2. Cybrludite:31.4″ over six months? Here in Louisiana we call that a drought! Then, I went to college in New Mexico where the average rainfall was something like 4″ per year. (”Of course, you shoulda been there the night we got three of those four inches!”, as the local joke went)Hope your home & family are able to stay safe!
Feb 22, 2005 - 2:53 am 3. Terrye:Wasn’t 1883 also the year of the last known tsunami to hit India?
bad year.
Feb 22, 2005 - 3:12 am 4. Carl in Atlanta:Terrye:
You’re right. Krakatoa erupted at the end of August 1883 and affected weather world-wide for over a year [via global cooling and high count particulates]. It spawned several tsunamis, including one that was well over 100 feet locally (Sunda Straits area of Indonesia).
Feb 22, 2005 - 4:11 am 5. David Thomson:ìThis area ( Dickinson-Alvin between Houston and Galveston Texas) holds it for the most rain ever to fall on the continental U.S.î
I am most disturbed by this information. Why would God wish to punish us? We Texans are red staters. It is those Californians who have lost their way and vote Democratic. Where is the justice?
Feb 22, 2005 - 4:45 am 6. DennisThePeasant:If Bush and the Republicans had passed Kyoto, none of this would have happened.
You know that don’t you?
Feb 22, 2005 - 7:28 am 7. Kevin P:DtP:
It’s not Kyoto. It’s ROVE! The sooner you wake up and realize that all the evil in the world eventually leads back to the evil one then you will begin to have true understanding.
P.S. Your site is great, keep it up.
Feb 22, 2005 - 8:14 am 8. richard mcenroe:It’s the end times, I tells ya!
Shopping malls will be buried under glaciers!
Nubile teen actors will burn the great books of western civilization while ignoring a library full of wooden furniture!
An actor dressed as Dick Cheney will have to lead the survivors of America over the Rio Grande, hat in hand!
Or maybe not.
Feb 22, 2005 - 8:17 am 9. Knucklehead:Kevin P,
I don’t see why you want to let Rove off the hook by simply holding him responsible for all the evil in the world. Clearly the nefarious so-and-so gets his jollies inflicting the pettiest of inconveniences upon us all. If it weren’t for Rove I sureley wouldn’t have that slowly but surely worsening shimmy in the front end of my auto or, for that matter, that ominous looking fluid spot on my driveway. What a rat he is!
Feb 22, 2005 - 9:17 am 10. Kevin P:Knuck:
You almost get it. Why are you being kept in the bondage of the oil based transportation system? Because Rove and his Haliburton cronies are keeping you chained to the combustion engine when we all know that enviromentally clean public transportation is available at this moment and the need for individual cars is a plot by Rove and his minions to keep you under his thumb. You know that we already have the knowledge, given to us by the aliens that are imprisoned in Ft. Knox to eliminate pollution, poverty, and hunger in the world but Rove does not want you to have it! When all this is free they can no longer make millions of the backs of the people and controll you with the materealism of capitalism. They fool you with the myth of individual freedom when being absorbed into the hive is the only solution to mankinds misery. They attack the UN because they know that if we only submit to the wisemen of the collective a thousand flowers will bloom and war will end. I agree, the transmission fluid on your driveway can be laid at the feet of Rove and the idiot puppet he has installed in the White House. You must look at the primary source. It is Rove!
Feb 22, 2005 - 10:28 am 11. Will:“According to the AP, a total of 31.40 inches of rain has fallen since the rainy season began on July 1…”
I see. And the dry season begins when?
We measure our “season” from July 1-June 30, because it typically rains here in winter. There is no rainy or dry season, it’s a 12-month period.
That’s the AP for you.
Feb 22, 2005 - 11:25 am 12. charlotte:Why blame Rove when blaming the victim is more fun? SoCal doesn’t have near enough Prius drivers per capita. At least all of the Hollywood friends of the environment will be taking Prius limos and Prius private jets to Academy night.
(Just joshing, we LOVE Hollywood and the rest of sunny California. May the heavens turn off the spigot until you need water, again.)
Feb 22, 2005 - 1:06 pm 13. Terrye:Dennis is right.
If Bush had only signed Kyoto the rain would not have come. True it was not ratified until a few days ago, but once global warming knew the brave environmentalists had thwarted its scheme it would have gone away. Just like that.
bad Bush.
bad Rove.
Feb 22, 2005 - 1:59 pm 14. mythusmage:Here in San Diego we only have to beat 26 inches to have the wettest year on record. Trust LA to have to do everything bigger.
Reservoirs overflowing, hills slumping and sliding. But no runaway boulders … yet.
Remember, what we’re getting now you’ll get a few days later.
Feb 22, 2005 - 4:44 pm 15. kpom:I’m from sunny, beautiful, drought-stricken Portland.
Give us our rain back!!!!!
Feb 22, 2005 - 9:37 pm