Hurricane Harvey

[PrairieSpyder]

I hope all our southeast Texas SpyderLovers in the path of Hurricane Harvey are on their way to safe ground. ray:ray:ray:


Please report in and let us know how you are doing. :dontknow:

 

[canamjhb]

The TV weather babe this morning painted a pretty bad picture for the weekend forecast. They think it not only will hit Texas long and hard, but will likely slide along the coast to Louisiana. Get prepared and stay safe. Looks like it's going to get ugly.....

 

[Bob Denman]

I heard some news that the oil rigs are starting to be shut down... :shocked:

 

[SNOOPY]

I heard some news that the oil rigs are starting to be shut down... :shocked:

Good old thing I converted my Spyder to propane. :yes:


Oh wait, I didn't :banghead:

 

[Copperman]

The Red Cross in Indianapolis has already started to deploy for Texas and Baton Rouge, LA.

 

[SpyderAnn01]

FlamingoBabe and HotGlue are having their grandson's wedding at their house on Saturday. Outdoor wedding. :yikes: But if anybody can pull off an outdoor wedding during a hurricane it would be those two.

 

[Chupaca]

Tough one...

Hope things change....so often they do and I have lived through many a close call and several hits. I will say that toughing it out is a bad Idea so do hope they all get out of its way...ray:

 

[MisterP]

Current forecast for some areas is for up to 3 FEET of rain. Yikes.

 

[PrairieSpyder]

FlamingoBabe and HotGlue are having their grandson's wedding at their house on Saturday. Outdoor wedding. :yikes: But if anybody can pull off an outdoor wedding during a hurricane it would be those two.

:yikes::yikes::yikes: is right!!!

Maybe the bride & groom will think of an alternative venue . . . like Oklahoma! nojoke

 

[Bob Denman]

Let's hope that the 3' of rain forecasts, are just the overactive imaginations of some meteorologist... :shocked:

 

[Copperman]

Earlier this morning I got deployed to Houston, TX with the Red Cross. My flight leaves at 8A tomorrow. I'd better take my rain jacket.

 

[MisterP]

Let's hope that the 3' of rain forecasts, are just the overactive imaginations of some meteorologist... :shocked:

unfortunately no, the hurricane is expected to stall over the Texas Gulf Coast and then drift toward Houston. They are going to take a serious beating. The latest reports are sustained winds at 110 mph and gusts to 135. One additional mile per hour sustained and Harvey will be a Cat 3 or major hurricane.

 

[Bob Denman]

Earlier this morning I got deployed to Houston, TX with the Red Cross. My flight leaves at 8A tomorrow. I'd better take my rain jacket.

Stay safe! :thumbup: ray:

 

[jcthorne]

With Harvey hitting at Corpus Christi and then working its way up the gulf coast to Louisiana and Mississippi, it will be hitting better than 50% of the US gasoline supply either crude or processing or pipeline capacity. The rest of the country is going to help pay for this one......I strongly suggest filling your tank, even if you are no where near the storm. There will be shortages and outside of the emergency zones, there will be price spikes.

 

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: They actually need a reason to jack the prices up??? :dontknow:

 

[MisterP]

Latest news -- Harvey may make landfall near Corpus Christi, drift back into the Gulf and re-strengthen, then make a second landfall near Houston.

 

[Lew L]

Dry Ice

For all you meteorologists out there------

HOw many tons of dry ice spread over Harvey to change this up coming devastation?? 20 or 30 tons ----- heck 1000 tons of dry ice could cost less that the pain and devastation this storm will cause. Ya --- I know ---- it's fooling around with Mother Nature. But we have delivery systems already. Ice crushers in the bomb bays of our military planes would just be a start.

kaos

 

[Bob Denman]

That's an interesting idea... :thumbup:
I'm only aware of the science: not the practical applications.
Can you elaborate on this?
Thanks! :thumbup:

 

[Lew L]

Thinking outside the box

That's an interesting idea... :thumbup:
I'm only aware of the science: not the practical applications.
Can you elaborate on this?
Thanks! :thumbup:

Shoot Bob--- It's just an idea. BUT----

We can get CO2 from the atmosphere.( It's produced when getting all those other compressed gasses) As a liquid ( in the production process) its already cold so making dry ice is next.

Cloud seeding is a known process also. Increasing it to a huge scale could be done ----- just takes the guts to change the weather. Can you imagine the up roar that would cause-------

As expensive as all this sounds------- its got to be cheaper than repairing all the devastation caused by a major hurricane.
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Another crazy idea.
Huge Mylar shields in orbit between the earth and the sun to " eclipse " the cause of the hurricanes. Cool ( shade ) the water in the path of the cane to diminish the raised temp of the water. Temps around me in 80% eclipse dropped noticeable in mere moments) I understand that water changes temperature much, much slower than air but we are talking days of shade from the suns infrared rays.
I know-----I know------ Huge Mylar shades sounds like science fiction. So did splitting the atom, going to the moon, integrated circuits.


Thinking outside the box may be part of the solution as is often the case.


Kaos

PS: I just can't wait to read some soon to follow responses. If we'll rip each other a new a$$ h@le over tires and poor spelling---- what will this heresy bring to fore.

 

[MisterP]

For all you meteorologists out there------

HOw many tons of dry ice spread over Harvey to change this up coming devastation?? 20 or 30 tons ----- heck 1000 tons of dry ice could cost less that the pain and devastation this storm will cause. Ya --- I know ---- it's fooling around with Mother Nature. But we have delivery systems already. Ice crushers in the bomb bays of our military planes would just be a start.

kaos

not a new idea:

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-10/how-stop-hurricane-shoot-it-full-dry-ice

it won't work because the hurricane is powered by ocean water above 80 F. Throwing some dry ice into the clouds doesn't stop the engine that is driving the storm.