Hey Bud ... What's up down on the Island ? Hope all's well.

Water to the top of the bulkheads (which is still 10 ft or so short of the bottom of our house). Some dock damage for folks on the bay side where the water has been rougher and a few boats trying to come out of their slings since the folks didn't raise them all the way up before leaving this past weekend. Gusts in the 50's but no big deal. Some of the frontage roads around I45 and Omega Bay and Bayou Vista have water across them.

Our Ike survivor "Circle Me Bert" still gets upset in situations like this but we closed the hurricane shutters last night so it was quieter and he is hanging in there.

Good news. Stay safe.

(06-16-2015 06:55 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  Water to the top of the bulkheads (which is still 10 ft or so short of the bottom of our house). Some dock damage for folks on the bay side where the water has been rougher and a few boats trying to come out of their slings since the folks didn't raise them all the way up before leaving this past weekend. Gusts in the 50's but no big deal. Some of the frontage roads around I45 and Omega Bay and Bayou Vista have water across them.

Our Ike survivor "Circle Me Bert" still gets upset in situations like this but we closed the hurricane shutters last night so it was quieter and he is hanging in there.

Good deal. Y'all are in our prayers.

Glad everything is ok. Stay dry!

Hope you survive unscathed! I live on the beach on Oahu, and approaching hurricanes are anxiety provoking at best, dangerous at the worst.

(06-16-2015 06:55 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote:  Water to the top of the bulkheads (which is still 10 ft or so short of the bottom of our house). Some dock damage for folks on the bay side where the water has been rougher and a few boats trying to come out of their slings since the folks didn't raise them all the way up before leaving this past weekend. Gusts in the 50's but no big deal. Some of the frontage roads around I45 and Omega Bay and Bayou Vista have water across them.

Our Ike survivor "Circle Me Bert" still gets upset in situations like this but we closed the hurricane shutters last night so it was quieter and he is hanging in there.

Good to hear.

(06-17-2015 12:06 AM)HawaiiOwl Wrote:  Hope you survive unscathed! I live on the beach on Oahu, and approaching hurricanes are anxiety provoking at best, dangerous at the worst.

Since Ike in 2008 (which had Tiki Island under 9 feet of water) a lot of new people have moved into the Houston Galveston area with no hurricane experience (I go back to before Carla). So between Jim Cantore hyperventilating and the mess for some folks from the Memorial Day monsoon there was some considerable angst. The big trick here is to know which areas will go under water really quick and leave you cutoff like Bolivar Peninsula. It was probably best that the local emergency folks did drape a good amount of black crepe in the run up to the storm . What we don't need is an Ike situation in which a lot of people didn't believe the warnings for Ike after having been overly scared by what happened when Rita looked like it might make a direct Galveston hit.

People in Houston need to follow Eric Berger the Sci Guy, and no one else for their weather updates. Today we'll end up getting 2-3 inches of rain perhaps? I doubt we got even an inch yesterday. Of course when we're just about hitting our average yearly rain total and we're only halfway into the year, even 2-3 inches of rain can cause some issues.