Hurricane Humberto.... SURPRISE !

Okie-dokie.... I want to thank all you folks who, indeed, followed directions from last evening's blog entry and crossed your fingers.... I asked for your digit intervention so that here in Liberty County... and, what the heck, big, bad old Houston nearby... wouldn't see a repeat of Tropical Storm Allison's 2001 devistation in the form of rainfall from Tropical Storm Humberto. Great news! It worked!

But, I woke up this morning thinking it odd that I hadn't been awakened in the night by the sound of horrendous rainfall.... promptly turned on the tv to catch the 6:00 am news.... and saw that TS Humberto had upgraded to a cat 1 hurricane, taken a hard easterly track and slammed into Beaumont, Texas, about 50 miles east of here.

Holy SH**, Sherlock !!!

MY GRANDBABY IS IN COLLEGE IN BEAUMONT!!!!!

Fortunately, before I could get worked up into a serious case of Granny fit-throwin', my daughter called to tell me she'd just talked to aforementioned grandbaby and he was doing fine... none too happy his mom had awakened him, but fine all the same.

Yesterday, the college had cancelled classes for today, told the students to move all automobiles to the south end of the large dorm complex (higher ground) and to stay inside. The college has a very proactive severe weather plan, having suffered heavy damage in the landfall of Hurricane Rita two years ago. Grandbaby felt his truck was high enough that it would be okay parked in the higher center of his dorm parking lot. His dorm building and others around his suffered minor damage... loss of rain gutters, shingles here and there, downed trees and the like. The worst problem being no electricity, and none expected through the weekend, classes were also cancelled for Friday. Grandbaby is at home early this weekend.

Here on the upper Texas Gulf Coast, we have again dodged the bullet. Whew............