South storm

I truly hope you down south folk make it through OK. Wind athe 130mph and the storm is going to stall? Chance of more than 3 feet of rain. The good Lord preserve you guys.

Just watched some footage of storm. You guys down there, this is no joke. I'm safe up here in Mn. and never dealt with hurricane but you guys know what you have to do to be safe so do it. Good luck.

I think that the phrase "ride out the storm" should be outlawed. The people that say that think that they are just facing a little adventure, Then they need help and the local rescue and fire service people have to put their lives on the line to rescue the idiot. I know that there are people who have a legit reason for not getting out, but far and away the greater number do not.

Doe not look good that is for sure,, hope everyone gets thru it OK.

We are about 110 miles directly north of where the storm is coming ashore. Raining in sheets now, can only see about 40 yds. It's been raining since 3pm and forecast to continue raining until Tuesday or Wednesday. Wind has picked up some now in 25-35 mph range. So far we doing Ok.

My grandparents lived in Rockport and I would visit during the summers for a week or two when I was young. Great sport fishing with him in the bay in his 16' planked skiff with his 1940 vintage 10 hp Johnson that you had to rotate 180 degrees for reverse. He lived South of town about 1 block off the beach after he retired and moved there from Houston. Every time a storm warning came they would pack up and head for San Antonio.

Since then things have really changed. If you want to know folks in harms way, Google Map Rockport, street view, and look at the development NE of town on the bay. If you go to the street view you can clearly see that the land elevation where the houses are built, which are right on the bay at an elevation of a few feet, no bulkhead, no seawall, no nothing. Lots and lots of lives there and many millions of dollars at stake. Problem for me with that development in particular is that it looks just like Miami and tons of other places on the water with the potential for being in harm's way; Galveston West End for another. Thanks but no thanks.

I heard earlier today that the Mayor of Rockport instructed folks that chose to stay to take a magic marker and write on their body their name and SS # so that they can be identified when it's all over. If that doesn't get the squatters to get up and get out I don't know what will.

Back in the late 50's Hurricane Carla Hit Cameron Louisiana and I was witness to the aftermath of that and I don't want to see it again. They were still finding bodies far inland, months after it hit. I have been in several in my life and they are no fun. Problem is the vastness of the devastation. A tornado is deadly and cuts a horrible but narrow (considering) path on it's journey. If you are a block away you may not know that anything happened, considering any damage to you and yours, or your place. Hurricanes are vast and wipe out everything keeping vast areas inundated for long periods of time. Bad bad bad.

Yes, they are deadly! The hurricane that hit Galveston in 1900 killed between 6,000-12,000 people, the deadliest storm in US history. Interesting to see how they brought it fill and raised the entire city, buildings and all, to get above the surge.

I'm well north of the coast, probably won't even get any rain from it.

Got some relatives in Houston, looks like they may get a lot of rain, but miss the brunt of the storm.

Never been through a hurricane, I can only imagine what that kind of wind would do! And there is the storm surge, flooding from the sky and ocean at the same time!

I saw on the news there are 20,000 people waiting offshore on cruise ships, can't come into port until probably the middle of the week. If they parked their cars at the port, well they will probably be gone or under water!
Indianola TX

In the winter of 79 I went fishing in Rockport and it was the best fishing ever. They said on news it was the center. Hopefully all the people got out.

Can't remember which school in the area had the mascot, "Home of the fighting sand craps" on their football stadium.

Carla was in 1961......175mph winds, we were in dead center. Horrible destruction!

Wasn't that the one. Where the idiots stayed in the hotel to party. Best I recall out of 85 only one got out alive.

I am 135 miles north of Houston on I45. Nothing here but light showers and a little wind.

Nothing in central Louisiana yet, still partly sunny.

I think the 1950's storm, 57 I think was Audrey. We were living in Orange and lost everything.

Your right Billy.....Lot of stories to tell. A friend, 15 yrs. old, at the time, lost his entire family. He rode the storm out on a roof top, holding on to his little sister for hrs. The roof top ended up at the fair grounds in Angleton, 8 miles away. He was later killed in Nam....sad memories.

Correct. I guess I forgot the name of the one that hit Cameron. Yes Carla was a bad one too; eye hit Freeport?????. I was in the service at the time on that one and in Altus, Ok. My parents and girlfriend and her parents weathered it out in Pasadena. I was worried and tried to contact them but couldn't get through. All came out ok.

Sand CraBs. Rockport was home to the Sand Crab....little guy about 1-2", looked like the larger, popular, Blue Crab which are plentiful but had one large and one small pincher. Hid in the sand along the beach. Fun to play with when I was a youngster visiting there.

The problem with the "riders" which I refer to as "squatters" are hard headed and think they are invincible. Problem is that they wait till it's
too late to get out when they realize their stupidity and get stranded making it hard on the first responders. There's a saying about "dumb"
and I forget it but it applies to this situation.

The problem with storms such as this from a farmer/rancher point of view is that the coastal plains are home to many many herds of cattle, including the famous King Ranch. With everything at the same elevation, there's no place for the animals to go to get out of the water and nothing much to eat during and after the water recedes. Then there is the loss to crops, of which there are many. If they get the rain that's forecast, it will be a larger mess than was Cameron, La.

Calhoun High School, in Port Lavaca.......home of the fighting Sand Crabs!

That sounds familiar. Been so many since then the names get jumbled. Course events like Katrina don't even though the date I'll probably
forget. My aunt lived in NOLA for many years on Elysian Fields Avenue in a period house. Always worried about her every time there was a
storm down there.