Hurricane Harvey Update Saturday

I copied this picture of Harvey from Intellicast.com radar. We are the EWX. It's 6 a.m. Saturday morning right now. Harvey is still moving up next to Victoria Texas. He's back down to a Category 2. We didn't get any wind to speak of until now also it started raining around 4 a.m. We have 2 inches in our rain gauge. Other than that, last night was very quiet.

Harvey lolly gagged east of Corpus Christi in Port Aransas for a bit then went back towards the coast and then turned around and bitch slapped Port Aransas a second time at 10 p.m. last night. He was a Category 4 then. There was quite a bit of damage reported to their courthouse and a few places completely collapsed. Some houses also collapsed. When it gets lighter today they will assess their damage. 

David just left to go grocery shopping. I doubt he'll come back with much. He said the HEB parking lot was packed yesterday at lunch time when he drove back to work. Oh, also yesterday, the city had crews working all over town cutting tree limbs away from power lines and such. Anything that looked like it would cause trouble was cut. They were still working last night at 8:30 on our street. That's something you don't see every day. I know in larger towns they don't really care because it would eat into their budget. There was also a message yesterday on the local radio station that if we hear the area sirens going off it's not for the usual test they have every Saturday at lunchtime. It will mean to tune into the radio station to hear what to do. It will most likely mean the river is rising and to move to the local shelters or bug out.

Well, I need to bring in my wind chimes before they fall. The wind is really picking up now. I'll keep y'all posted throughout the day.