[Vhfcn-l] Fwd: Harvey

[Arnold B Christensen]

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>Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:48:18 -0500
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>From: Arnold B Christensen <abc15 at mindspring.com>
>Subject: Harvey
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>Here in Corpus Christi where we live at 17 feet above sea level and 
>9+miles from the surf line the wind started in Thurs afternoon my 
>weather station said wind was 20=45 mph and increasing.  Friday 
>morning it was steady at 60 mph and had a 1.8" of rain and things 
>were building up.  I can tell you one thing about these newer 
>homes.  They don't come with automatic generators although you can 
>certainly purchase one for big bucks.  Nothing works when the power 
>goes out and stays out. Nothing! The cable system goes out, the 
>coffee pot what works automatically doesn't!  The cellphone breaks 
>up terribly.  Our son who was excited about riding out a hurricane 
>chicken out Fri morning and got pissed when I said we were 
>staying...having been through 0 for him and maybe a dozen for me and 
>he does not know the history here and where exactly that bad history 
>was made, ie terrain.  We are still high above what happened then 
>and he would not listen and said the surge would come straight thru 
>the front door and drown his mom. Got loud in here for awhile and 
>then he packed up our Grand Dog and left saying to his Mom he was 
>going to the DFW area and so he did not have a chance to ride out 
>his first hurricane ever because he was watching the weather channel 
>which... if you do not know how a Hurricane is built and you have no 
>idea of your topography will scare the dickens out of you.
>
>So sometime in the middle of the night the 50' Eucalyptus tree in 
>the back yard had several big limbs break off and in falling knocked 
>water fountain and about half of the fence between us and the 
>neighbor behind us blew down.  He has been out there already pulling 
>it up and nailing away.  Doesn't have a dog to worry about getting 
>out but has several cats and the top of the  fence is their walk way 
>to get all around the neighborhood.
>
>Will have  to arrange with a tree persons to cut up the downed limbs 
>and then cut the tree down and cut it up but they cannot haul it off 
>because the city place they haul to is flooded and that place says 
>it  will not open for at least a week. All of that would have 
>happened even if we had left.
>
>A very special thanks to great friends John and Gretchen Grow who 
>were very concerned about us in emails before the power went out for 
>good and then called this morning, again very concerned about how we 
>were.  For sure I do not deserve friends such as they.
>
>One other reason we did not leave was the Imposter Wife.  She is 
>still in early phases of recuperation and says that making a trip up 
>to DFW area would be difficult for her due to bathroom needs and 
>being in crowds with her walker and she just did not want to get 
>involved in all the stuff of sitting in the car for hours on hours 
>to get to the north side of TX.  Oh for the  days when we had the 
>motorhome.  When we were here the fuel tank was always  full and the 
>water tank also... the nasty water tank emptied often and you have 
>two heaters with a full large propane tank and then you got a nice 
>quiet 7.5 KW that was quiet not noisy like the neighbors quite some 
>distance away. You could pull off the interstate anywhere and be 
>very comfortable with heat or air conditioning and hot shower and 
>your own toilet.  Ah, but those days are gone but I can't help 
>thinking of yrs ago being fully prepared in the coach of having your 
>house on wheels and being fully self contained.

>Came back from a ride to the Rockport and Aransas Pass area the they 
>certainly took a brunt of it with roofs blown off or collapse 
>especially those with steel walls or roofs, and broken ancient oaks 
>even up to 2 feet or more in diameter, power poles down and power 
>cables busted and lying across the highways or hanging low so that 
>trucks cannot pass under them. Power trucks all over the place with 
>crews working. Did not see any restaurants open during our trip.  I 
>typed this Sunday while the laptop still had power but there was no 
>internet.  Have made some small changes to the original I 
>typed.  Our power just came on at about 1 o'clock and have been 
>updating. Got through to our son and all is good between him and 
>I.  He said that since he was half way between the DFW area and 
>Colorado he was going to drive to the mountains to see a couple of 
>his good friend and stay for several days.

Corpus Christi was a no show when compared to Aransas Pass, Port 
Aransas, and Rockport.  They took a big hit as they were northeast of 
us and we got the downwind side of the circulation while they were on 
the advancing side.  Now Houston is flooded and will be for the rest 
of the week and further and the storm heads east to LA.

This is being sent to many different people so I do have to report on 
Jan the Imposter Wife.  She continues to improve by small steps.  The 
fridges and freezer reached the point in time where everything has 
warmed up. So we will be tossing out a lot of formerly hard frozen 
foods.  Nothing wrong with loosing a few pounds!

We are well and our little development survived very well.  A few 
shingles here and there and sections of fencing blown down, one tree 
blown down and my many large limbs broken off.  We have right now in 
TX 18 counties on the Federal disaster Assistants list.  You should 
know that a county in Texas is as large as the state of Rhode Island generally.

God bless you all.
Chris, Arnie whatever name you call me.



>But all is well.  People in the communities who had mandatory evac 
>orders will have a lot more to get used to when they finally come 
>back home than we do.
>