Don't know if they bumped our last "little" Claudette. More tree damage from that storm than I ever remember even back to Carla. Cat 1 my @ss.
Beulah was damp:
The blue is 15", lighter area is 20", and the light dot by Baffin is 25".
Be nice. Beulah was bad. No doubt about it but the smaller one's can sneak up on you and do damage too. There is no such thing as a "minor" hurricane.
Tell the people in low lying areas that had to be rescued by boat that we didn't have any flooding. I'm much closer to the Gulf than Pebcak but this storm was strange from the get go. The interior valley got hit the hardest.
I sometimes wonder if storms aren't upgraded for political reasons but in this case I think Dolly will end up a stronger storm.. It was reported by very reliable people that it had winds clocked between 120-140 at times. On top of that she decided to make herself at home for at least 36 hours. If you have been down here then you know that we don't handle a lot of water well
That said..I had to go to McAllen Wednesday. The damage along 77 and 83 was significant. I saw one RV park that looked liked it had been stomped. Construction was bad so I came back 281. Around San Pedro I encountered water across the road, still. It was high enough that we were taking turns getting thru so everyone could drive on the middle of the road.
Don't know if they bumped our last "little" Claudette. More tree damage from that storm than I ever remember even back to Carla. Cat 1 my @ss.
Beulah was damp:
The blue is 15", lighter area is 20", and the light dot by Baffin is 25".
Whoa yourself!
My statement was in response to the following statement by Pebcak:
“Girl, I know you’re kind of new down here. Watch that water down by Mission. If it starts even puddling, get out of there, or you’ll be on an island for a couple of weeks. PM me if you need a place to move an RV to.”
I rode out Beulah in Mission, and it never turned Mission into an island as Pebcak suggests. Perhaps you saw damage after the storm you cited, but that does not make Mission an island. Now if you personally witnessed Mission becoming an island during Beulah or any subsequent storm, I would really like to hear about that and your theory as to how the rest of the citizenry missed out on that particular detail.
Well?