Edouard’s Here!
August 5, 2008 | Check-in
Tropical Storm Edouard has made landfall just to the east-southeast of Houston this morning, and is even at this moment churning it’s way STRAIGHT toward us. RIght now, they max sustained winds are at 65 mph, a few short of a Cat One hurricane, but we’re still in for quite a blow.
We should be getting a LOT of rain over the next day or so. I’ve stayed home today, because I didn’t want to go to work then just turn around and head home again.
Here’s hoping we don’t lose power or anything!
* * * UPDATE WEDNESDAY 6 AUGUST 2008 * * *
Well, the storm’s come and gone and left nothing much in its wake but a few blown-over beach umbrellas. As usual with our vaunted Mainstream Media, the hype and the build-up was W-A-Y bigger than the reality. I think we probably had some pretty good winds in the coastal areas between the Bolivar Peninsula just east of Galveston and Port Arthur, Texas, but there’s NOTHING THERE except a bunch of old beach houses, and they’re all up on stilts.
The storm surge MIGHT have been a foot or eighteen inches. Not enough to worry about.
We got about three inches of rain in our neck of the woods, although they DID get a lot more than that east of Houston proper. However, most of that rain fell in areas just adjacent to the bay, and so there really wasn’t much flooding of rivers further inland.
In fact, as the storm downgraded to a “tropical depression” and headed out over Austin and West Texas, it was more a blessing than anything else, since there has been pervasive drought there extending back several years. Those folks really needed the rain!
So, all’s well, the lights never even flickered out our way. I’m back in the office again today for the first time in ALMOST two weeks, given my hospital stay plus the reunion trip.
Love to all.
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