Posted by Texasmark1 on August 25, 2017 at 19:28:55 from (99.197.190.172):
In Reply to: South storm posted by jeffcat on August 25, 2017 at 16:24:40:
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.
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