First, some songs about the greater Corpus Christi area. The first is a song about Port Aransas specifically, of which there are not many out there. If you don’t like country music much, I would recommend it over the other two. The second one, Robert Earl Keen’s Corpus Christi Bay, is something of a classic in some country music circles. The third, Further Down The Line by Bleu Edmondson, is a sour grapes letter about a girlfriend who moved to Seattle and he speaks of the climate contrast between Seattle and Corpus (though perhaps that doesn’t apply when there is a hurricane on).
Since Houston is grabbing a lot of the attention right now, here is some of the devastation in Ingleside, Port Aransas and Rockport.
And in Sinton, there is the story of a courier dog.
Bill stayed in Port Aransas when Harvey first struck, calls it the stupidest thing he ever did, but concludes that the main thing he fears is the IRS.
If you want to know how bad a hurricane is looking, look at Waffle House.
One thing it’s important to remember is that just because it seems like somebody has drowned it doesn’t mean they have actually drowned. Nobody knows this better than Houston’s mayor:
So why wasn’t Houston evacuated? Well, this is why. This may be the topic for another post, but we probably need to start planning for the possibility that some cities just can’t be evacuated even in the worst case scenario.
A priest needed some communion wine, gets a kayak and… you’ll never guess what happens next.
Harvey is destroying homes, and wreaking a different kind of havoc on the homeless.
#CajunNavy is on the way ! pic.twitter.com/29KcUlecJ2
— Donna Jean Heinrich (@donna_heinrich) August 27, 2017
Some pretty amazing before-and-after photos of Houston.
Only comment I have on this pic is that most of those pipes in the Houston area terminate in the ship channel pic.twitter.com/d69m1YklOH
— ISO 14001 (@eriz35) August 25, 2017
The Texas Tribune and ProPublica get the mother-of-all I told you so’s about Houston’s unique vulnerability to flooding. Matt Corbett lays out a mild defense of Houston. in tweets.
Here is a story of myself in an unrelated hurricane.
People can be really stubborn morons sometimes.
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