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Glad you guys made it.

Glad y'all are in good health, hope your property damage is minimal.

Was wondering about you. I don't know where all you gents are located but hoping and praying for safety for you all and for the populace in general.

My friend in Weiser (S of Cuero) is about to catch plenty. His tank is now a front pasture lake.

Haven't heard much from the one that lives between that place and Cuero.

I just chatted with a friend in Bay City. They have a lot of wind and water damage, but the people are OK.

Ed

Can he wash his name and Social off his arm now?




Dave

Anyone heard from Ed toomanyletters?
I hope they are OK and no property damage.

OOPS - Ed's trigger finger is quicker than mine!

Was that a real thing?

If so, what a wonderful reason for putting radio tracking chips in Texans.

This one?

You know how the media is. The closer we all are to death, the better the story.




Clark

It is right over or close to Rockinbbar right now as a Cat 1. Surge doesn't seem to be a bad as predicted. Port Aransas saw 131 mph just before it came ashore. I have a condo in Port A., so I guess we'll see.

Well, personally, whenever it snows a couple inches I make my family all start wearing toe tags.

She is a Sgt with Bay City PD and I asked her if she knew that acetone would remove Sharpie. She laughed and said yes, but that tattoos work better.

Pretty practical folks down there.

Ed

Glad to hear so many reporting in with less than threatened outcomes. Hope all goes better than anticipated for all.

In the midwest they finalize their wills.

On the east coast they just stop going to work so there is no risk involved.




Clark

It's still blowing and raining pretty good here, 45 miles inland from Corpus. Winds are northwesterly now, which means the storm has moved pretty far inland. We have no power but that was expected. The wind was pretty high in the night, around 0200, but it's not as bad now, they're calling it Cat 1 or even downgrading it to Tropical Storm. No trees came down, thank God. There are a lot of huge live oaks around this ranch house! Boiled water on the gas grill to make coffee, and had to bring a bucket of water in from the swimming pool to flush the toilet, that's about the worst inconvenience so far.

Yikes. I hope all is well. What is the base elevation of your unit?

I think you guys got hit a lot harder than we did. We are hunkered down about 25-30 miles NW of you. Hope it is settling g down for y'all now.

Not sure of elevation, but it is in a part of Port A. where the worst prediction I saw yesterday was either "over 1 ft." or "1-3 ft." while other stuff on the island was much worse. My best guess is flooding was not a big issue at our place, but I don't know how well the structure handled the wind. Won't know until we can get in there. I have a friend with a cabin in Holiday Beach. I think it went right over him full force, so not sure what he has left.

We had 3 1/2 inches of rain but winds around a 100 mph last night. We got lucky but the folks in rockport/aranasas pass were hit hard 8 dead including an infant. Had on home invader shot here on the south side of CC.