Anyone here impacted by Hurricane Beryl?

Don M. said:
It appears that thousands of Houston residents are still without power several days after this storm hit the area.
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Hi neighbor...YES it has rained very hard here last week and continues to rain each day. Yesterday morning it rained hard for about 3 hours...this morning there were severe thunderstorms that took out power in mid-Missouri. Ours was out for 5 hours this morning. It is going to be 90F today also. It feels like a sauna out there. The atmosphere has LOTS of moisture, and this is coming from the Atlantic ocean. A short description here :

While Beryl has lost a majority of its power after making landfall, but the storm will likely bring 1-3 inches of rain as it travels north, with pockets of 3-5 inches as it travels through northeast Texas to the Great Lakes. Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland could all see rain from Beryl, according to Fox Weather.5 days ago

How is it where you live?
 
We got 6 to 6.5 inches of rain. Lots of flood warnings, roads closed at low spots but we have good drainage so nothing serious. Some gusty wind one morning but even that wasn't extreme.
 

Paco Dennis said:
Hi neighbor...YES it has rained very hard here last week and continues to rain each day. Yesterday morning it rained hard for about 3 hours...this morning there were severe thunderstorms that took out power in mid-Missouri. Ours was out for 5 hours this morning. It is going to be 90F today also. It feels like a sauna out there. The atmosphere has LOTS of moisture, and this is coming from the Atlantic ocean. A short description here :

While Beryl has lost a majority of its power after making landfall, but the storm will likely bring 1-3 inches of rain as it travels north, with pockets of 3-5 inches as it travels through northeast Texas to the Great Lakes. Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland could all see rain from Beryl, according to Fox Weather.5 days ago

How is it where you live?
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We, too, have had some good rains in the past few days, but nothing severe. This morning it rained for about 4 hours, and gave us another inch. We haven't had any power outages, other than a quick "glitch" a couple of days ago which interrupted the TV, restarted the computer,, and reset a couple of clocks. The forecast says the next 3 or 4 days may be the hottest of the year, so far, with the heat index going over100. Between the heat and the rain, my lawn may be quite tall before I get a chance to mow later in the week. This is the time of year that I start wishing for Fall to arrive. Compared to some other parts of the country, we've been lucky...hope it stays that way.
 
Hi,
Beryl did a number in the Houston area. The winds were pretty fierce and lots of trees were uprooted, some falling on houses and in streets. Our power went out at 6:30am on the 8th, and then came the storm. I had no idea as to when the lights would come back on, but the next morning it was obvious its gonna be awhile.

We decided its time to go, and I called the Hilton in Waco (200 miles or so northwest) and made reservations. We took our time and gathered what we needed to bring. I took all of our supply of prescription drugs as the heat could mess them up, and we had no idea how long we would be away.

I also totally emptied the fridge and freezer. Dang, that hurt throwing aways all the goodies. Then I bagged the trash and put them by the curb, along with the debris I had raked up from the front yard. My neighbor was staying so he would watch over everything.

Our original reservations were for two nights, but I ended up extending it to 5 nights. And once we got settled there, we realized we needed this and that and ended up with 3 trips to Walmart (huge!) and 2 trips to Kohls and 1 to CVS.

The Hilton puts out a great breakfast bar, and there was no shortage of eating places. But make no mistake, it was not a vacation, for we were worried about so much.

On Friday we got word the power should be back on, but we decided to stay til Sunday as it would give the house time to cool off (IF power was really on) and traffic would be a lot less.

Got home Sunday morning at 9, and the house was fine! The AC was doing its job, and there were no odors. I opened the Fridge and freezer and they were on and odor free as well. And, all the trash in front of the house was gone.

I made a run to the local supermarket (HEB) for basics, and then we unpacked and did laundry, etc., etc.

Seriously, we were very fortunate. Many, many areas are still without power, and many of those people can't up and leave their homes. Even today, on our drives to the store and lunch, the damage from the trees is just immense, and debris is everywhere. From past experience, I would say it will take 3 months to get things back to normal.

The "funny" thing is, we didn't expect Beryl to head our way. But its a hurricane, and you cannot second guess them.
 
Mobilman44 said:
Hi,
Beryl did a number in the Houston area. The winds were pretty fierce and lots of trees were uprooted, some falling on houses and in streets. Our power went out at 6:30am on the 8th, and then came the storm. I had no idea as to when the lights would come back on, but the next morning it was obvious its gonna be awhile.

We decided its time to go, and I called the Hilton in Waco (200 miles or so northwest) and made reservations. We took our time and gathered what we needed to bring. I took all of our supply of prescription drugs as the heat could mess them up, and we had no idea how long we would be away.

I also totally emptied the fridge and freezer. Dang, that hurt throwing aways all the goodies. Then I bagged the trash and put them by the curb, along with the debris I had raked up from the front yard. My neighbor was staying so he would watch over everything.

Our original reservations were for two nights, but I ended up extending it to 5 nights. And once we got settled there, we realized we needed this and that and ended up with 3 trips to Walmart (huge!) and 2 trips to Kohls and 1 to CVS.

The Hilton puts out a great breakfast bar, and there was no shortage of eating places. But make no mistake, it was not a vacation, for we were worried about so much.

On Friday we got word the power should be back on, but we decided to stay til Sunday as it would give the house time to cool off (IF power was really on) and traffic would be a lot less.

Got home Sunday morning at 9, and the house was fine! The AC was doing its job, and there were no odors. I opened the Fridge and freezer and they were on and odor free as well. And, all the trash in front of the house was gone.

I made a run to the local supermarket (HEB) for basics, and then we unpacked and did laundry, etc., etc.

Seriously, we were very fortunate. Many, many areas are still without power, and many of those people can't up and leave their homes. Even today, on our drives to the store and lunch, the damage from the trees is just immense, and debris is everywhere. From past experience, I would say it will take 3 months to get things back to normal.

The "funny" thing is, we didn't expect Beryl to head our way. But its a hurricane, and you cannot second guess them.
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Glad your house had no damage. One of the reasons I would not want a deep freezer is due to what you experienced, having to throw away all that food. Good thing you did. A friend of mine lives in a resort condo and told me how stinky and horrible one of the units were because someone left for the season and forgot to empty the fridge and freezer. It's also good that a nice hotel was available for you to stay in but wow, that was quite a distance away! Of course, it needed to be to avoid the storm.

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Forgot to mention....in our area, when the electricity goes out, often the water does as well. We keep several gallons of drinking water on hand, but the real problem is "commode water". So before the storm I filled 5 five gallon buckets with water for mainly commode use. Thankfully, the water stayed on until just before we left.

Sunday when we returned, I thought of emptying those 5 buckets but forgot to do so. HA, its good I didn't, for last evening at 8 the water went off, and still is off at 5:30 this morning.

And yet, thru all this heat, humidity, storms, loss of power and water, thousands (yes!) of folks continue to move here for a "better life". HA !
 
Don M. said:
Texas seems to have more problems with its basic infrastructure than most states do.
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You seem to forget something …. Texas is 1000 miles across.
The Hurricane that hit Houston is a world away from other parts of this state…. 12-14 hours away.



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Yes, Texas is huge! I've driven I-10 from Louisiana to New Mexico and it is one LONG drive - 850 or so miles! I worked with a fellow who lived his twenty something years in Austin. He was going on his first trip outside of Texas on business. He told me he has never been outside Texas! I found this incredible but then placed a Texas outline over a map of the midwest, centered on my home town of Chicago.

Yikes, the Texas cutout covered Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Iowa - the only other states I had been to. So in reality, I never went outside the Texas boundaries either!
 
Mobilman44 said:
Yikes, the Texas cutout covered Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Iowa - the only other states I had been to. So in reality, I never went outside the Texas boundaries either!
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Yes.

Factoid …….. just speaking of Houston area only
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land MSA alone, covers 9,444 square miles, an area larger than five other U.S. states: New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island.


Aside from having State Government officials running the state ….
Texas has 4 HUGE cities (each in millions) Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and Houston, all indepentdently run, and all totally different from one another.


Another …. Houston/Harris County, is over 4 million people now, and the largest city in Texas. ... 4th largest city in the country.
And Power outages from Beryl hit most of Harris County.
 
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Not sure that having a bunch of people sitting around 'full-time’, doing nothing is a good thing either.

I mean, haven’t we been waiting a few years now for the vote on a permanent National time-change (DST) to happen?
 
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JustBonee said:
Not sure that having a bunch of people sitting around 'full-time’, doing nothing is a good thing either.

I mean, haven’t we been waiting a few years now for the vote on a permanent National time-change (DST) to happen?
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They get so much high heat and bad weather in Texas, I think they will have plenty to do. 31 million people to listen to. That can take up some time too.
 
I've lived in the "Great State of Texas" since 1977 - 3 years in Dallas, the rest just north of Houston. As mentioned earlier, the State is huge, and majorly diverse - in environment, people, politics, industry, image, etc., etc.

In my view, Dallas is "white collar", Houston "blue collar", Austin is a "college town" with major politics, and San Antonio is a Hispanic enclave. Thirty or so years ago, each of these areas had their charm and attractiveness. Today, they are overcrowded and growing - faster than the cities can keep up with them. Frankly, and I've been to all of them recently, they just aren't the wonderful places they once were.

My point is, Texas is truly big and diverse, and what politicians we have in Austin just can't do the job(s) at hand - for they are way too busy with their special self serving goals, and in-fighting with each other - with the major charge of getting re-elected. Dang, I guess Texas politicians aren't all that difference from the rest of the states.....

All said, I still love Texas, and will never leave!
 
Oh yeah. 7days and 6hours without power. Save a power drop from a neighbor's generator that gave us a 12" oscillating fan in the kitchen. Estimating ~ $600-800 dollars USD replacement cost for food loss in the side-by-side fridge/freezer and the small freezer in the garage. Two fences down for an estimated replacement cost of $1675 USD.

Property damage losses pale when looking at the trauma of the event. Sharon at 79y.o. and me at 80y.o has left us physically exhausted and mentally drained. So yeah, lots of financial and personal impact here. And Beryl was "only" a Cat 1 Hurricane.
 
Looking back, I believe many folks here in the Houston area didn't take beryl seriously. It was never headed our way until the last two days, and then it was just not a major storm. Yes, we expected 5-6 inches of rain, but that isn't all that uncommon. What was unexpected (IMO) was the wind damage. The eye passed near our neighborhood and at first the winds were coming out of the east. We weathered that pretty good and felt the other side of the storm would be not nearly as strong.

Well, that was a bad assumption, for those western winds did a number on trees and fences. Keep in mind that the area was once a pine forest, and a lot of remaining trees are overgrown and vulnerable. Those areas with power lines above ground really got beat up, and even today many folks are still without power.

Just driving around yesterday (two weeks after the storm), we saw a heck of a lot of fallen fences and trees and piles of debris stacked in most everyone's front yard. It will be some time before things are back to "normal", whatever that is. And of course, another storm could hit again (and again) this season.

My Wife (76 - native Houstonian) and I (80 - 43 years here) have seen our share of hurricanes. We realized the day after that the power was going to be out for some time. So we decided to take off to Waco and ended up there for 6 days. It wasn't a vacation, but at least the Hilton and the town had everything we needed.

I fully realize that many folks couldn't leave like that, and I'm thankful we could do so.

Oh, have to add... two days before the storm I filled up the gas tank on the F150. I had ordered the large tank (36 gal), and believe me, once again it proved to be well worth the $450 it cost.
 

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