For the second time in less than a month, our area has been spared the effects of a hurricane. Back in August, Hurricane Dean had everyone running around like proverbial chickens, only to turn south and slam into Mexico. Same thing happened with Tropical Storm Erin.
Yesterday, Tropical Storm Humberto rapidly spun into existence off the coast of Galveston and, initially at least, headed directly our way. Liberty County was poised to take a direct hit from this storm, with rain projected at between five and fifteen inches. MAJOR flooding was expected.
That was the story when I went to bed around 21:00, fully expecting to be awakened by a pager's tone sometime after midnight. Instead a full bladder awakened me at 3:00. I listened for the sound of heavy rain, but heard nothing. Buford's bladder was apparently full also, so I go to the back door, expecting him to run out and right back in (see previous blog post).
I open the door to find not only no rain, but no hint that it had rained at all. Obviously perplexed, I fire up the laptop to check the situation. Seems Humberto is now a full-fledged hurricane, but he's decided to pull a hard right and visit the Beaumont area instead of Houston.
So we've dodged yet another bullet.
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It just shows that when are least prepared is when we will be hit. Watch, the next time nobody will think that it will come for us and then we will be back in a Katrina/Rita situation. How have ya'll been btw?
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