Correction: This sand pit in this post was sold by Hallett to Riverwalk Porter LLC on January 23, 2024. Last week, the West Fork San Jacinto rerouted itself through a mile-long sand pit at the five-square mile Hallett Mine in Porter. Some people reported problems understanding how all the images in that post related to […]
Does a wetter-than-normal spring say anything about Houston’s chances for a busier-than-normal hurricane season? According to Jeff Linder, Harris County’s meteorologist, the two correlate poorly. In the process of exploring that, I discovered some surprising facts about the intensity and seasonality of rainfall in the region. So Far, Not So Much Wetter than Normal “Harris […]
Correction: This sand pit in this post was sold by Hallett to Riverwalk Porter LLC on January 23, 2024. The San Jacinto West Fork has become totally blocked by sediment at the Hallett Mine in Porter and rerouted itself through the giant sand mine. The old river channel has been sealed off by sediment. And […]
May 10, 2024 – The floodwaters have finally receded. The sun has come out. And the debris piles are ba-aack. People who flooded during the storms last week are taking advantage of the break in weather to muck out their homes, toss wallboard, and cart waterlogged furniture to the curb. Nowhere in Kingwood was the […]
Construction is always the riskiest period during a development project. Especially when you clearcut 533 acres and get 17 inches of rain … in a week. However, thanks to best practices and luck, most people surrounding the Sila development in Huffman narrowly escaped what could have become a major disaster. As the people in Woodridge […]
Photos taken during last week’s flood raise disturbing questions all over again about sand mining so close to the San Jacinto. Are: Can: Will: The sand mining photos below show dramatically that the river breached dikes, flowed through pits, stirred up sediment and carried it downriver. I have hundreds more, but these make the point. […]
5/6/2024 Part II – Flood damage to an unknown number of homes and businesses is being revealed around Lake Houston as waters recede. Most of the serious flood damage seems confined to low-lying homes around rivers and streams. As I drove around the headwaters of Lake Houston this afternoon from Kingwood to Huffman to Porter […]
May 6, 2024, Monday 2 AM – Flooding in the Houston area during the first week of May 2024 caused quite a stir. It made national headlines most days last week. Twenty percent of the region’s annual rainfall fell in two or three days in several places upstream from Lake Houston. Water rose quickly along […]
May 4, 2024 Part II – The worst of this week’s Kingwood flooding may be over, but more heavy rain is on the way. At 2 PM today, flooding on the East Fork and West Fork San Jacinto Rivers was finally receding. Early even. And lower than expected. But another storm could drop heavy rainfall […]
(Updated 8:30 AM 5/4/24 with current inundation map) This post explains when flood peaks will arrive in the Humble-Kingwood-Huffman Areas and how high they will get. It also includes evacuation advice from local officials and a photographic look at flooding so far. Peaks Arriving at Separate Times After almost 20 inches of rain this week […]