Good luck to our Texas neighbors dealing with Beryl

@Heartlander No. It is going in farther north near Port Lavaca and then head inland. The eye is currently forecast to come near our house in Galveston Co. as it moves inland and impacts Houston.

@exexec batten down the hatches lads!
Be safe!

@SandWitch Beryl hit a little southeast of us and started battering us around 5:00 this morning. The eye just passed us, and it looks a lot better for us now. Still windy, but not much rain.

@SandWitch Soon after my last message, we lost the Internet, but I still had power because I have a generator. The Internet just came back on after being off most of the day.

@exexec

An emergency generator is rapidly becoming a must have appliance for sustainable life along the coast.

A lesson we learned from Katrina is how the floodwaters took out practically all communication as well as the banks, internet and ATM machines and turned a swatch of the Gulf Coast into a cashless AND a credit-less society. A brother lived near Gulfport and we went almost week with no contact.

Just a monkey-wrench thought to throw into future discussion is to imagine what a Houston evacuation will be like when everyone has an EV and gas-powered cars are no more.

@Heartlander An EV evacuation would be almost impossible. We evacuated from one storm and it took us 18 hours to go 50 miles. There would be a lot of dead EV's on the road.

@SandWitch Good points.

@SandWitch I am actually too tired to discuss anything. I have been working on my yard all morning, cleaning up after Hurricane Beryl. I am soaking wet and exhausted.

@SandWitch I live in the midst of the largest oil refineries in the US, so I don't expect they will be supporting EVs during my lifetime.