FIFYSea Speed said:
I was just talking about this to my wife. It seems ridiculous meow as opposed to when we were younger. Is it just another casualty of the information age? People being paranoid and overprotective? Helicoptering?
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FIFYSea Speed said:
I was just talking about this to my wife. It seems ridiculous meow as opposed to when we were younger. Is it just another casualty of the information age? People being paranoid and overprotective? Helicoptering?
Ag_07 said:
Man kids have it so easy nowadays.
I remember we had to wake up the day of at 4 am and wait in anticipation praying that your school's name popped up on the 5 am news broadcast.
Now they get a entire day and a half before we've gotten an inch of rain.
And now they can just check twitter to see if school is canceled tomorrow lol.Ag_07 said:
Man kids have it so easy nowadays.
I remember we had to wake up the day of at 4 am and wait in anticipation praying that your school's name popped up on the 5 am news broadcast.
Now they get a entire day and a half before we've gotten an inch of rain.
Not to mention that parents would raise all holy hell if their kids got trapped in a school. Schools do not want the liability of an injury or death because they required attendance during a tropical event, regardless if people like SS feel that current generations should suffer because the way things were done in his day were harder. Sending kids to school during a storm is the same as "back in my day, we walked up hill both ways in the snow."Kick-R said:There are probably some other factors (infrastructure vs. population growth, etc.) that make the impacts potentially more serious for the same relative threat as previous decades.Sea Speed said:
I was just talking about this to my wife. It seems ridiculous mow as opposed to when we were younger. Is it just another casualty of the information age? People being paranoid and overprotective? Helicoptering?
Live update from Matagorda Beach, TX with Tropical Storm Nicholas bearing down. Worst conditions are just offshore @accuweather pic.twitter.com/CX8KXcD9VY
— Reed Timmer (@ReedTimmerAccu) September 13, 2021
Step up your game, weather channel.Texaggie7nine said:
Dude on the weather channel is hanging out in Discovery Green, and every time they cut to him, he points at all the trees there and how some might have damage.
Cutting edge coverage really.
Live update from Matagorda Beach, TX with Tropical Storm Nicholas bearing down. Worst conditions are just offshore @accuweather pic.twitter.com/CX8KXcD9VY
— Reed Timmer (@ReedTimmerAccu) September 13, 2021
AgLiving06 said:
This advisory pushed it further east again as the european finally adjusted.
Will be interested to see what space city says. They were already saying that north of I10 is really out of the issue already and this is a further trend away which may help the coast.
Yeah, I'm in Katy and now I'm wondering if I'm even going to get my yard watered for free this evening.Ramrod said:AgLiving06 said:
This advisory pushed it further east again as the european finally adjusted.
Will be interested to see what space city says. They were already saying that north of I10 is really out of the issue already and this is a further trend away which may help the coast.
Just caught Frank's project rain totals update on the 4pm news and will likely be turning my sprinklers back on when I head outside next.
crap, if the storm misses Katy, we will see an uptick in sex trafficking for sure.RebelE91 said:
Yeah, I'm in Katy and now I'm wondering if I'm even going to get my yard watered for free this evening.
gougler08 said:
Getting some gusts on the SW side now but looks like most of the strong storms aren't going to touch us now
I don't know, you can look in old archives for neighborhood papers like the Bellaire Texan or the Southwest News, and see stories about flooding every time there was a good rain, going back to the early development in that side of town. Braes Bayou flooding has been the subject of flood control studies and bond initiatives since before a lot of us were born. We've had a lot of progress on flood control infrastructure over the decades, but also a whole lot of residential development and paving over more square footage every year.Quote:
Seemed like we had less storms back then (and no, I am not a climate change advocate). I don't recall all the seemingly annual events like Tax Day, Memorial Day,
Easy, Rod said:crap, if the storm misses Katy, we will see an uptick in sex trafficking for sure.RebelE91 said:
Yeah, I'm in Katy and now I'm wondering if I'm even going to get my yard watered for free this evening.
CDUB98 said:
Decent breeze in the GOOF right now. No rain at my house. Only been light stuff when it did fall.
We'll see what happens tonight.
Premium said:CDUB98 said:
Decent breeze in the GOOF right now. No rain at my house. Only been light stuff when it did fall.
We'll see what happens tonight.
Take care of yourself