An Ultra High Definition 4K Walking Tour of Houston Texas During Tropical Storm Beta
Enjoy a peaceful ultra HD walking tour of Eleanor Tinsley Park along Buffalo Bayou in downtown Houston, Texas. When Tropical Storm Beta hit the city heavy rainfall quickly made the local streams and bayous overflow their banks.
Come along with me as I explore how high the water got along Buffalo Bayou and Allen Parkway as the last bands of rainfall from the storm begin to clear. Listen to the ambient noises in the park and the sounds of raindrops, cicadas, and crunchy gravel walking trails. With ultra high definition 4K recording you can experience the park like you are actually there. The local roads flooded, eliminating most vehicle traffic along an ordinarily busy stretch of Allen Parkway in the city of Houston. When the rains clear you can see the trees along the banks of the bayou, and the downtown Houston city skyline in the distance.
The water of the bayou floods so high that it almost reaches pedestrian bridges along Sabine and Waugh, with rapidly rising and lowering water levels. Eleanor Tinsley is almost entirely submerged with flood waters from the Tropical Storm that hit Houston, Texas in September of 2020 during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Luckily Tropical Storm Beta did not make landfall as a higher category hurricane during the unusually busy Atlantic hurricane season of 2020.
Buffalo Bayou is home to wildlife such as fish, birds, alligators and turtles. There are many native trees that thrive along the sides of the bayou, and provide habitat for all of the animals. Houston is considered to be a tall grass costal prairie, which is home to many unique animals. The bayou is normally a shallow and slow moving body of water that meanders through the heart of the City of Houston.
During heavy rainfall it is designed to hold and drain much of the water that would otherwise flood the City. When the tropical storm hit, the bayou did its job and helped divert significant amounts of storm water away from streets and homes and into the bayou and eventually all the way out of Harris County and into Galveston Bay.
Buffalo Bayou is a popular location for outdoor athletic activity and offers the people of Houston an opportunity to participate in socially distanced exercise during the coronavirus pandemic. The city park offers running trails, bicycle trails and bicycle rentals, a skate park, volleyball courts, fields and a pavilion. The walking trails are many miles long and have benches, drinking fountains, a dog park, and art to look at so people can relax and enjoy the Buffalo Bayou Park. When not flooded from hurricanes and other weather events, people enjoy having picnics in the section of Buffalo Bayou called Eleanor Tinsley Park.
If you visit Houston, Texas to watch a Texans football game at NRG Stadium or an Astros game at Minute Maid park, or stop by the Toyota Center to see the Rockets play, you can take a break between these fun activities and enjoy a calm and relaxing walk along the bayou.
Enjoy the peaceful walking tour and feel like you are really walking along the trails at Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas.