A warm north wind still a blowing
It is eerie to fill such warmth in a north wind. We have so far been on the dry side of this storm--no rain. I would estimate the wind speed as below 30 knots, It is shaking the trees, but Ihave seen no damage. Living on about 17 heavily wooded acres that is surprising. It is not unusually to see at least the tops blown out of some of the water oak trees during a good thunderstorm. I have never seen that problem with the live oaks.
The local forecast is still for a 60 percent chance of rain, but if it does not come in the next few hours, I think all those plants I ignored during hurricane prep are going to have to be watered. That may be one of the biggest surprises of this storm. Only yesterday the local forecast was for nine to 12 inches of rain.
Another lesson from the wstorm is that there is a good reason why all the tracking charts have a disclaimer that they should not be used for planning purposes. Since going to the five day tracking charts the average era on landfall estimates has been 270 miles. It looks like Rita was within that range.
We have had no problems with power. My house was built with 2 x 6 studs on the outer walls, then super insulated. With the windows and the French doors all covered I have to poke my head out the of the back door, which is made of insulated steel actually hear anything. The steel roof usually will let you know if we are getting heavy rainfall.
I had to put my step daughters 17 year old American Eskimo dog out through the back door for the first time this morning for him to do his business and he acts like he is going to wait until I take the plywood off the front door before he comes back in. I got him around back to come in that door but he just kept going around the house. If it starts to rain or we get a little thunder he will be ready to comeback in. He tends to stick very close during the thunderstorms.
I noticed that several of my neighbors did no hurricane prep this week. I don't know if they are feeling lucky are smart about now, but it seems to me they took an awful chance when you have the third strogest hurricane ever recorded forecast to make a direct hit with hurricane force winds 200 miles inland.
Watching Fox news last night Geraldo was doing his schlick while mispronouncing "Sabine." Everyone else on the network was getting it right. I wonder if so local may have been fooling with him? Gretta looked great in her foul weather jacket reporting from Houston. She had noticed the high competance of government officials in Texas at solving problems that came up with the evacuation plan. County Judge Bob Eckels might make a great FEMA director. The comeptence of Texas officials has been a theme with her since the Katrina evacuations to Texas. While she does not express it, there was certainly no such praise for Louisiana officials during their post Katrina fiasco.
It is eerie to fill such warmth in a north wind. We have so far been on the dry side of this storm--no rain. I would estimate the wind speed as below 30 knots, It is shaking the trees, but Ihave seen no damage. Living on about 17 heavily wooded acres that is surprising. It is not unusually to see at least the tops blown out of some of the water oak trees during a good thunderstorm. I have never seen that problem with the live oaks.
The local forecast is still for a 60 percent chance of rain, but if it does not come in the next few hours, I think all those plants I ignored during hurricane prep are going to have to be watered. That may be one of the biggest surprises of this storm. Only yesterday the local forecast was for nine to 12 inches of rain.
Another lesson from the wstorm is that there is a good reason why all the tracking charts have a disclaimer that they should not be used for planning purposes. Since going to the five day tracking charts the average era on landfall estimates has been 270 miles. It looks like Rita was within that range.
We have had no problems with power. My house was built with 2 x 6 studs on the outer walls, then super insulated. With the windows and the French doors all covered I have to poke my head out the of the back door, which is made of insulated steel actually hear anything. The steel roof usually will let you know if we are getting heavy rainfall.
I had to put my step daughters 17 year old American Eskimo dog out through the back door for the first time this morning for him to do his business and he acts like he is going to wait until I take the plywood off the front door before he comes back in. I got him around back to come in that door but he just kept going around the house. If it starts to rain or we get a little thunder he will be ready to comeback in. He tends to stick very close during the thunderstorms.
I noticed that several of my neighbors did no hurricane prep this week. I don't know if they are feeling lucky are smart about now, but it seems to me they took an awful chance when you have the third strogest hurricane ever recorded forecast to make a direct hit with hurricane force winds 200 miles inland.
Watching Fox news last night Geraldo was doing his schlick while mispronouncing "Sabine." Everyone else on the network was getting it right. I wonder if so local may have been fooling with him? Gretta looked great in her foul weather jacket reporting from Houston. She had noticed the high competance of government officials in Texas at solving problems that came up with the evacuation plan. County Judge Bob Eckels might make a great FEMA director. The comeptence of Texas officials has been a theme with her since the Katrina evacuations to Texas. While she does not express it, there was certainly no such praise for Louisiana officials during their post Katrina fiasco.
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