Well, it’s been hurricane season for awhile now, and thankfully it’s been on the quiet side thus far. Anyone who’s lived in Hurricane Heaven for any length of time knows better than to assume that we’re going to get off scot-free. The Corpus Christi-South Padre Island area will get the worst of TS Erin, but the forecast is for the Houston-Galveston area to get something like 5” of rain out of Erin. Great…like we need more rain. Given that we’ve had much more rain than a normal summer brings, the ground is saturated. This means that there’s nowhere for all that water to go. Being a coastal plain, the topography here is flatter than a $3 bill. Yeah, there will be some flooding, possibly quite a bit…but it’s not as if we’re going to be able to do much to prevent it.
Even better, there’s another storm, TS Dean, right behind TS Erin. Welcome to our world. While we may be laughing at all y’all north of the Mason-Dixon Line when winter rolls around, summer is when the tables turn. Living a half-mile from the Gulf of Mexico as we do…well, you kinda hafta expect this sort of thing.
Cowabunga, dude!!!
At this point, the chief danger from either storm is being trampled to death by hoards of eager reporters stampeding to the Seawall to produce their stories. Don't panic, ya'll... Just be prepared.
And that goes double for government officials that have become hysterical in the past.
Panic? I dunno about Bob, but the maps show that in a Cat 4 storm, which Dean could well be by next Wed or Thursday, my house could be sitting in 20 feet of water. I don't swim that well.
I don't consider it panic to load my belongings into my car and head west plenty in advance if it even appears to be headed this way.
Yeah...satellite trucks are backed up on the Gulf Freeway.... :O)