Houston should be ok, if you are at higher elavations, just STAY AWAY FROM DOWN TOWN (tall glass buildings)! Falling glass was a real problem during Alica and Alica was a baby huricane.
Yes, Alicia was a baby cane but she stalled for over 12 hours, thats why she did so much damage.
Yeah, I didn’t live here then. In fact, I am the anti-hurricane “charm.” *more famous last words* I’ve lived here off and on most of my life and have missed the hurricanes.
However, I did get the pants scared off of me in Allison and Rita.
Looks like the U.S. is going to make it out of this one just fine.
I normally would wait to be so confident, but this storm is tracking great...
It should be one the NHC nails spot-on, and it is a Mexico storm, though S. Texas could have bad flooding.
Yeah, I lived in OK at that time, but my parents lived here and had a little roof damage - but my dad sent pix of the broken skyscraper windows downtown. *a real hurricane*
But did I ever send any tornado pix to him? Nooooo.
The scariest thing to me was in Allison when all the bayous were full and the rivers were running upstream. I had 36” of rain at my house in that 4-day period, about 14” of it that last morning, starting about 4:30AM, after we thought it was all gone. *wrong!*
I’ve also seen the bayou (Brays) over-top, in Oct ‘93. I’m a block from that in both directions, so that would be the only worry - and it’s the best controlled bayou in the city, so not worried at all.
Oops, hearing raindrops on front window now as I type.