Hurricane Harvey
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@nerdydad said in Hurricane Harvey:
@gjacobse My dad (an extra) told me one time that he was able to pull the grayscale cloud images from the satellite, but I didn't have a chance to figure out how he did it. I'm sure its probably just a radio on a frequency with a slow scan TV.
I have sort of looked into it. I know one of the rPi projects I want to do has it... but limited.
and then there is using the SDR:
http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-noaa-weather-satellite-images/
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I'm listening to the Hurricane net on 14.325 - the noise level is s9 - so can barely hear the net control
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@gjacobse I'm just a tech with a Baofeng UV-5R. Sooo, you know what I'm hearing.
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@nerdydad said in Hurricane Harvey:
@gjacobse I'm just a tech with a Baofeng UV-5R. Sooo, you know what I'm hearing.
LOL... you can hear anything as long as you have an SDR or any HF radio... it's the trans you are not allow to do.. unless in an emergency situation.
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@gjacobse said in Hurricane Harvey:
@nerdydad said in Hurricane Harvey:
@gjacobse I'm just a tech with a Baofeng UV-5R. Sooo, you know what I'm hearing.
LOL... you can hear anything as long as you have an SDR or any HF radio... it's the trans you are not allow to do.. unless in an emergency situation.
Totally understood. That's the way I understand it as well.
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About 56 miles out from Corpus Christi. -
I'm west of Houston. I've never witnessed the amount of rain projected for us.
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@scottalanmiller said in Hurricane Harvey:
@nerdydad said in Hurricane Harvey:
@dafyre said in Hurricane Harvey:
What about @StorageNinja ? Did he make it out of Houston the other day?
I would assume that he has either vacated or is bunkering down because he hasn't been active for the last day or so.
He mentioned escaping like yesterday. But I spoke to him within the last hour on IM.
Plane got delayed but I'm out and safely in Vegas (about to take a nap for an hour or so it was a late night in Jamaica beach locking down the boats). Left the wife and dog with water, beef jerky, cliff bars, and some twinkies. She's tagged as essentials personal for some stupid reason for Katy (which she will not be able to reach from midtown, and they don't have a bed for her so she's told to wait at home).
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@brandon220 said in Hurricane Harvey:
I'm west of Houston. I've never witnessed the amount of rain projected for us.
I was camping in West Columbia when Allison parked over us. You will survive (I had no warning, roads out got washed out).
IKE didn't rain much but the cat 3 winds destroyed the grid. We will at least be spared of that. (I was keeping a datacenter online in that. Got to work on 3 phase power in the storm outside, and had a shotgun to defend my generator).
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@gjacobse said in Hurricane Harvey:
@jmoore said in Hurricane Harvey:
@nerdydad I am in Waco as well so will report anything of significance that might help others be safe.
Well, hope it won't be to much of a trouble for the area.
Corpus will take a beating, as will Port Aransas. THe worst case is the bastard bounces off them, and comes to park over Galveston and the surge on the west bay COMBINED with the bayou's trying to drain turns into a cluster f*** that breaches the levees around the ship channel turning the ship channel into a toxic cluster f***. the likes of the world has never seen (Seriously a Cat 4 direct, or sustained Cat 3 will basically turn the ship channel into the mother of all Superfund sites, we are way under spec'd for it).
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Expect gas prices to go up as the refineries are also along the Texas Gulf coast.
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If you want Hype Free weather, I STRONGLY recommend Space City Weather.
These guys have one sponsor for the entire season so no incentive to do stupid scare tactics.
Running jokes around Hurricanes in Houston tend to revolve around failed storms that never make it here (Pictures of patio furniture knocked over and meme's about "WE WILL REBUILD") Telling people in Katy they should evacuate (They are so far east so it's stupid, and they are the first to leave and clog the roads for the inlanders), and strawberry poptarts (#1 food purchased in hurricanes).
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@storageninja Nice, but its just for Houston. Got anything for Big D?
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@nerdydad said in Hurricane Harvey:
Expect gas prices to go up as the refineries are also along the Texas Gulf coast.
Several of the platforms are already shutdown and evac'ed... the refineries are the same. I've already seen reports out of Virginia of expect price to jump by $0.20 US...
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@gjacobse said in Hurricane Harvey:
@nerdydad said in Hurricane Harvey:
Expect gas prices to go up as the refineries are also along the Texas Gulf coast.
Several of the platforms are already shutdown and evac'ed... the refineries are the same. I've already seen reports out of Virginia of expect price to jump by $0.20 US...
Not immediately. The terminal companies are buying fuel months in advance under contracts that are not that easily changed.
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Gas here went from $2.19 a gal to $2.39 already...
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Hurricane Harvey is now a Cat 4.000
WTNT34 KNHC 252356
TCPAT4BULLETIN
Hurricane Harvey Intermediate Advisory Number 22A
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL092017
700 PM CDT Fri Aug 25 2017...EYE OF CATEGORY 4 HARVEY APPROACHING THE COAST BETWEEN PORT
ARANSAS AND PORT O'CONNOR TEXAS...
...CATASTROPHIC FLOODING EXPECTED DUE TO HEAVY RAINFALL AND STORM
SURGE...SUMMARY OF 700 PM CDT...0000 UTC...INFORMATION
LOCATION...27.8N 96.8W
ABOUT 35 MI...55 KM E OF CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS
ABOUT 50 MI...80 KM SSW OF PORT OCONNOR TEXAS
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...130 MPH...215 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 325 DEGREES AT 8 MPH...13 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...941 MB...27.79 INCHES
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Wow, CAT 4? I feel like we've heard way too little about this one.
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@scottalanmiller It all happened so quick. I first heard about it on Wednesday and then they were just expecting a tropical storm. Yesterday, it was supposed to be a Cat 2. Now it's a Cat 4.
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@nerdydad said in Hurricane Harvey:
@scottalanmiller It all happened so quick. I first heard about it on Wednesday and then they were just expecting a tropical storm. Yesterday, it was supposed to be a Cat 2. Now it's a Cat 4.
Our local weather (Lexington, KY) mentioned it was going to gain due to the high water temp - nearly 90 deg. That is a massive amount of energy.
