Kyle_in_Tex
Super Star Member
When we got 25" over a couple/few days last year during Harvey, I was glad I lived on a bit of a hill. We have 2 tributaries on our place and they flowed like crazy and then at peak rain periods, they were even higher. I just kept saying, I feel sorry for those downstream.....which was the big flooding of Lagrange Texas.
Drew, does your place drain well during catastrophic rains?
True story....about the wind.
2003, Claudette was supposed to hit Texas as a TS. It ended up growing up to 100 mph gusts in a vert short time, just before it came onto land at Port O'connor. My buddy lives on the coastal flatland about 30 miles inland and has a 50x150 barn. The barn has two 12' wide by 15' tall overhead doors on one end. He saw the wind starting to bow them. As an able bodied strong 40 year old, he told me "Getting over and back to the barn in the wind was the hardest thing he's ever done." He said he was leaning over so far, he used his hands to help claw and grip on the grass to crawl the 100 feet to the barn with a cross wind. Once inside the man door, he was scared to death of the overhead doors breaking inward. He decided to park his Clarke forklift against the first one. Just as he got it shored up against the door, the other door busted inward, broke one of it's cables, and was flying around held on by one cable. Yes, a few hundred pound door slinging around on it's cable. He had to jump back behind the protective ROPS of the forklift and wait it out until the cable broke. He said the springs unwinding, wind, and cable snapping sounded like a war zone. He wished he'd parked something else heavy to shore it up before the storm. His barn ended up holding up fairly well other than that. But Harvey pulled a couple of roof panels off and indented the windward side of all the R panel on one side.
I know that rain at 55mph is almost totally horizontal rain as far as perspective goes.
You guys prepare.
Prayers.
Drew, does your place drain well during catastrophic rains?
True story....about the wind.
2003, Claudette was supposed to hit Texas as a TS. It ended up growing up to 100 mph gusts in a vert short time, just before it came onto land at Port O'connor. My buddy lives on the coastal flatland about 30 miles inland and has a 50x150 barn. The barn has two 12' wide by 15' tall overhead doors on one end. He saw the wind starting to bow them. As an able bodied strong 40 year old, he told me "Getting over and back to the barn in the wind was the hardest thing he's ever done." He said he was leaning over so far, he used his hands to help claw and grip on the grass to crawl the 100 feet to the barn with a cross wind. Once inside the man door, he was scared to death of the overhead doors breaking inward. He decided to park his Clarke forklift against the first one. Just as he got it shored up against the door, the other door busted inward, broke one of it's cables, and was flying around held on by one cable. Yes, a few hundred pound door slinging around on it's cable. He had to jump back behind the protective ROPS of the forklift and wait it out until the cable broke. He said the springs unwinding, wind, and cable snapping sounded like a war zone. He wished he'd parked something else heavy to shore it up before the storm. His barn ended up holding up fairly well other than that. But Harvey pulled a couple of roof panels off and indented the windward side of all the R panel on one side.
I know that rain at 55mph is almost totally horizontal rain as far as perspective goes.
You guys prepare.
Prayers.
