Hurricane Harvey totally caught me by surprise. I am just thankful I didn't have anything to worry about, such as our RV is not in Corpus Christi. My poor brother-in-law was unable to go pick up his RV from Rockport where the hurricane made landfall. According to Wife, his SUV got rear ended a couple weeks ago and he was unable to find a rental truck to tow the RV. On top of that, he works in the medical field and has been working non-stop the last few days, so he just said thanks for having insurance and we shall see how it goes. Last night, Copano Bay Resort, the RV park where they and my in-laws had stayed at posted that most everyone had pulled out of the park, except for about 22 units. Of those, one RV was already on its side at 9:00pm, and most of the others had fallen off their concrete pads. A boat had taken off on its trailer and smashed into a truck, so it was mayhem aplenty. He tried calling, but was having trouble getting a hold of anyone, but they put another story that none of the units survived the night.
I had not even heard of this hurricane until Wife said it would be raining towards the end of the week. I went and looked on Tuesday or Wednesday and at best, the eye was still low in the Gulf Of Mexico and only a tropical depression. By the time it made landfall, it had made it to a category 4, meaning winds were over 130mph. In all this, we should really thank the inventors of all sorts of technology to track hurricanes which used to catch people by surprise. Nowadays, we can pinpoint where a hurricane is and where it is going. The hurricane Galveston in 1900 managed to take out 8,000 to 12,000 people because there were no warnings like we have today.
The funniest, stupidest line today was from Boy who managed to tell us in the same sentence "San Marcos has closed classes for Monday because of flooding all over and then proceeds to say well I am going over there for my friend's birthday party. Wife of course was on that quick. "uhh, no dumbass, what part of flooding do you not understand?!?!" He has kind of gotten used to not having mama around during the week, I leave most things at his discretion since he is 23 at this point. To mama, he is still a baby who needs his colita wiped every now and then, He has been laying under his blankets all afternoon/evening watching TV on his phone because he is mad at us. I say good, save us some electricity by not running his jumbo TV and all his other crap. There is no good reason to run around in this nasty weather.
Best case scenario is it keeps raining hard enough to keep Wife home an extra day. Worst case, more stupid people die because they decide they need to venture out instead of staying safe. I did get a chill when the mayor of Rockport told those people choosing to stay to label their arms with a Sharpie marker with their social security number and name to make it easier to identify the bodies. At this point, thankfully, there was only 1 fatality and about 30 people missing. Sounds bad, but compare it to the Galveston tragedy and this is nothing.
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