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Post by dwayner2 on Aug 26, 2020 8:34:47 GMT -5
“Hold on, we’re going for a RIDE!” Might be a cat 4 by late tomorrow, yikes! close call for for us here and Houston but it’s heading more East of us. 58lilited lives in Beaumont, TX right in its path. He’s been off the forums for a few years so I hope they stay safe and make it thru OK.
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Post by nana on Aug 26, 2020 11:29:47 GMT -5
2020-The gift that keeps on giving🥺...
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Post by pooka on Aug 26, 2020 13:00:53 GMT -5
It's like the perennial magazine comic with the bearded guy in a robe holds up the sign saying "The End Is Near". We haven't had any end of the world predictions recently. In past years, we used to have them pretty regularly, or maybe that's not a top news story anymore. Either that, or someone was claiming god was punishing us for a certain social sin of the day.
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Post by mach12 on Aug 26, 2020 15:22:35 GMT -5
My last ship, USS Orleck, was built in Orange, TX at the end of WWII and served in the U.S.Navy, then the Turkish Navy, and then was donated back to us to serve as a museum ship. Orleck was a museum in Orange until a hurricane hit and a barge broke loose and struck her and punctured her hull below the waterline. She broke loose and with her hull punctured she took on water and settled on a sand bar. The barge company eventually paid for the damage and the Orleck relocated up river to Lake Charles, LA and continued as a museum. About a year ago we started looking for a new home for her and an organization in Jacksonville, FL expressed interest, an agreement was reached, and we were about to move her to a Texas shipyard for some work, paint and so on and then have her towed to Jacksonville. Then Covid-19 hit, her repairs and tow were classified nonessential, and there she sits waiting in Lake Charles, in the path yet again.
I hope and pray that the impact isn't as bad as they're talking. I'd hate to see Orleck damaged or destroyed but even more important are the people in the path. Very scary.
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Post by dwayner2 on Aug 26, 2020 18:10:12 GMT -5
Yes, this thing gained strength so fast there’s no telling what it will be when it hits. Katrina was a category 4 wasn’t it? I’m north of zhouston and all we had was a breeze and a few lite showers today, rest of the week is clear skys.
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Post by mach12 on Aug 26, 2020 18:46:31 GMT -5
I think Katrina messed with us like Rita did and jumped back and forth from a 2 all the way to a 5 but if I remember right, just before landfall they dropped to a 3. I could be confusing other hurricanes though. Pretty sure That was true with Rita (which put Orleck on the sand bar) and one of the later ones did pretty much the same. I could be wrong but that's how I remember it.
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Post by dwayner2 on Aug 26, 2020 19:47:58 GMT -5
I think your right, it dropped to a cat 3 when it hit land. I remember that now. There was a big fiasco with the levees not being strong enough. Years earlier the federal government offered to help pay to help build up the levees to take at least a cat 4 hurricane. But, they instead used their hotel tax money to build a new super dome and then blamed Bush for purposely letting all those people die in the floods because the Feds didn’t get the job done. Hey...I only help people who try to help themselves, not people who want it all for free while sitting on their butts. 😠
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Post by dwayner2 on Aug 26, 2020 23:52:43 GMT -5
Before midnight. What a monster! I can’t believe how tight the eye is, 150 mph winds.
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