Notice: This Saturday's 300/200 Score Match At Walker County Postponed Du To Tropical

[jackie schmidt]

Notice: This Saturday's 300/200 Score Match At Walker County Postponed

It looks like the Gulf Coast Area is going to experience some heavy rainfall and wind this week end due to Tropical Storm Harvey, so Larry Deese has postponed the match to a later date to be announced.

 

[steve stanley]

Don't sound good for ya'll, hope everyone stays safe.

 

[GASTX]

We may have dodged a big bullet ( no pun intended ) as it may not be as bad as first predicted in the immediate area ( Harris / Montgomery counties ). I think it was the right call to make.

I wasn't going to be looking forward to holding dead center on target stand one when I was shooting on target six.

 

[jackie schmidt]

We may have dodged a big bullet ( no pun intended ) as it may not be as bad as first predicted in the immediate area ( Harris / Montgomery counties ). I think it was the right call to make.

I wasn't going to be looking forward to holding dead center on target stand one when I was shooting on target six.

We got about 7 inches of rain last night, it's raining now. They are predicting another 7-8 inches tomorrow.

The problem is, everything is saturated. 3 inches in a couple of hours will cause flooding. The Main eastern feeder bands to the Storm out of the Gulf are coming right over our area.

With storms like this, wind is not the big problem. It's the rain. Lots of it.

 

[GASTX]

We may have dodged a big bullet ( no pun intended ) as it may not be as bad as first predicted in the immediate area ( Harris / Montgomery counties ).

Hmmmm hope I can judge wind better than I judge the weather, we got slammed.

Candidate for under-estimation of the century that was.

 

[jackie schmidt]

Hmmmm hope I can judge wind better than I judge the weather, we got slammed.

Candidate for under-estimation of the century that was.

Yeh, you kinda missed that one

This thing surprised everybody. Up untill this, the biggest rain maker we had in recent times was Tropical Storm Allison. It did the same thing, stalled on the Coast and dumped rain for 3 days. During Allison we had about 36 inches of rain in that many hours.

With Harvey, we went past 50 inches that Sunday afternoon. Tuesday morning, I was able to drive my truck to the Market Street Greens Bayou Bridge. Here is the picture I took looking at IH-10 about 2 miles from my house.

http://benchrest.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=19985&stc=1&d=1504498852

 

[Joe Duke]

Harvey

Let me give you a bit of perspective. This picture is storm damage (wind damage as well as rain) to the first Baptist Church in Refugio TX. Refugio, Rockport, etc. is where the eye made landfall and they bore the brunt of the wind damage. Refugio is a little Texas town of about 3,000 people but they will be without power for the next two to four weeks. My brother-in-law passed away there Thursday night just before the storm. We had to wait until this past Friday before a burial could be scheduled.
While down there, I saw stretches of power line where every pole was broken off for over a mile at a time. I saw huge bales of harvested cotton where 1/3 of the bale was blown away and the rest saturated by rain. That was some farmers yearly crop.

Refugio is 179 miles away from the picture that Jackie posted above. And the flooding went on all the way to Lake Charles, LA. Mapquest says it is 353 miles from Corpus Christi, TX to Lake Charles, LA. Flooding and damage has extended well over 100 miles inland in some cases. That is probably more than 35,000 square miles.
And we complain when two bullets wont touch or we shoot a nine.

Credit for the church picture goes to Jonathan Vineyard.

joe