Greater Houston-area officials are monitoring conditions as a tropical system could bring heavy rainfall and the potential for flash flooding to the area as early as the morning of Sept. 1, per the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s happening<\/strong><\/p>\n Per the NWS, Tropical Depression 5 is expected to become a tropical storm after press time Aug. 31 before making landfall along the upper Texas or southwest Louisiana coast Sept. 1.<\/p>\n Gov. Greg Abbott at an Aug. 31 press conference said the storm is anticipated to make landfall near Chambers and Jefferson counties in the afternoon of Sept. 1. The worst of the rain is expected to be concentrated in Harris County.<\/p>\n That forecast could include a storm surge of 2-4 feet in Chambers and Jefferson counties, as well as local rainfall getting as high as 10-15 inches, including in some areas getting 3-4 inches per hour, Abbott said.<\/p>\n While the rainfall is expected to affect the area\u2019s rivers, it\u2019s too early to tell if it will pose any imminent danger, Abbott said Aug. 31.<\/p>\n What\u2019s being done<\/strong><\/p>\n The Harris County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management issued a flood watch Sept. 1-2. HCOHSEM officials noted potential impacts for Harris County may include:<\/p>\n In preparation, CenterPoint Energy<\/a> officials activated its Emergency Operations Center Aug. 31 and said their workforce is prepared to respond to potential impacts to its electric and gas service.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have activated our preparedness plans, and our crews and contractors stand ready to respond to any service impacts for our customers,\u201d said Jason Fabre, CenterPoint Entergy\u2019s vice president of special response and distribution operations and incident commander, in a statement. \u201cWe are closely monitoring the weather models as conditions continue to evolve and urge our customers to stay alert in anticipation of quickly changing weather conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n Similarly, officials with Entergy Texas<\/a> said the company has:<\/p>\n \u201cOur teams are ready to respond if this system impacts our customers,\u201d said Frank Shannon, vice president of reliability for Entergy Texas, in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re positioning people and resources in areas where they can respond quickly and safely, and we encourage our customers to use this time to review their emergency plans and prepare their homes and families.\u201d<\/p>\n What parents should know<\/strong><\/p>\n Officials with many local school districts have likewise issued statements regarding the inclement weather.<\/p>\n Other school districts that have issued statements without making any cancellations, include:<\/p>\n At the state<\/strong><\/p>\n In an Aug. 31 press conference, Abbott, alongside state grid and emergency officials, said nearly two dozen state agencies, as well as more than 1,500 state personnel, have been activated to help deal with the storm\u2019s potential ramifications.<\/p>\n Resources include swift-water boats and high-water vehicles.<\/p>\n At the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, officials said that as of the evening of Aug. 31, no transmission or generation restrictions have been put in place, as winds are expected to reach around 60 mph and will not cross the threshold that endangers the system, which is usually around 110 mph.<\/p>\n Officials at the presser also noted that outage maps at all relevant providers, including CenterPoint, were functional.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is our first big storm of the season, and I\u2019ll tell you Texas is prepared,\u201d Orlando Alanis, assistant agency director & chief of state operations and incident support, said at the Aug. 31 press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greater Houston-area officials are monitoring conditions as a tropical system could bring heavy rainfall and the potential for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1035863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[8580,4345,414491,358,21746,414490,21747,3187,313],"class_list":["post-1035862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-flooding","tag-houston","tag-inclement-weather","tag-texas","tag-tropical-depression","tag-tropical-depression-5","tag-tropical-storm","tag-tx","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117192787607383608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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