Oh boy, here we go again! Hurricane breathing down my neck

[Rockin Robbins]

Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Seems like yesterday you were digging out from underneath Katrina. Wishing you the best, Neal. It beats an earthquake but hurricanes are not fun, even if you personally don't take any damage. Report in when you can and be safe.

[mookiemookie]

RIG FOR DIVE, OPEN BULKHEAD FLAPPERS AND START VENTILATON

Stay safe, y'all. Best of luck to you, Onkel.

[Onkel Neal]

So far, not bad. Lots of rain and a few hours of high winds... but pretty calm now. No electricity for the last 4 hours, so no movies or games.

[mookiemookie]

So far so good on the power front here inside the 610 loop. The real buttpounding is yet to come though.

[August]

How is the Texas fairing?

[razark]

It's a big place. They can't flood us all out at once.

Edit:

Hurricane Harvey made landfall Friday night between Port Aransas and Port O'Connor, Texas, as a Category 4 storm with winds of 130 mph, the National Hurricane Center says.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

It beats an earthquake but hurricanes are not fun, even if you personally don't take any damage.

actually; having survived '1989's Loma Prieta and two Napa quakes in a decade with foundation and brick chimney damage...I prefer the earthquakes to an out and out hurricane. Two tornadoes in Minnesota were the most dreadful; the first time I, age 6, ever saw fear in adults (mommy) and us kids pronto into the Southwest corner of the cellar as we heard the unmistakable reverberating-throbbing sound of an uber-locomotive in a tunnel bearing down, seemingly on you, in torrential rain with major thunder and lightning...
U can 'stock up' for hurricanes, floods and 'quakes ...tornados are pure demons and escape is by the grace of god alone...and a decent cellar.

[August]

This is why I live in New England where the worst that can happen is we get a bunch of snow.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

no movies or games.

Ouch, no wonder they rate this as a cat 3.

[Gerald]

https://www.pixeltopic.com/image/xcb...fai/?size=full

[Onkel Neal]

Since I am 100 miles north of the storm center, this was not nearly as bad as Hurricane Ike. Probably not so nice for folks in Corpus Christi and Victoria. Slept most of the night (hot and sticky, though), just a steady howl of wind and some rain. Now, they predict Harvey will loop and head north towards us here and remain a tropical storm dumping a lot of rain--if that happens, life will get complicated. We'll see.

[Catfish]

Good to hear, wishing all the best for the weekend.
No electricity is bad of course.. no refrigerator, and no subsimming

[Rockin Robbins]

Last night seems like there was a big disconnect between the 130 mph of the storm winds and the wind speed of all the towns on the dirty, west and northwest side of the storm. As the eyewall was coming ashore they were showing 50 mph gusts and lower wind speeds. That is decidedly not typical. The highest winds are usually at the eyewall and northwest, right where those under 50 mph wind speeds were coming from. Very strange.

Unlike my hurricane last year, which was dry with a potent wind punch, looks like this one might be understated wind-wise and drop 30" of rain on everyone. I'll take the wind every time..... Water does A LOT more damage.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Catfish

No electricity is bad of course.. no refrigerator,

Cat 3 for not able to play, and I rate it cat 4 that there is no cold beer.

Adds up for a cat 7, in my book.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Cat 3 for not able to play, and I rate it cat 4 that there is no cold beer.

Adds up for a cat 7, in my book.

Indeed. Just give me juice! I can take the rain.