So here we are the end of September. It is Fall or Autumn by the calendar. It’s even feeling a little like that here in the sub-tropics. Though our idea of Fall and many others idea of Fall are probably much different.
For us Fall means that night-time temperatures are down in the 60’s F and day-time temperatures are in the 80’s F. Don’t you love our idea of Fall? Winter is lows in the 50’s F and highs in the 70’s F or even low 80’s F. In exchange for our usually mild Winters we get to deal with potentially traumatic Summers. Usually hot and sticky with afternoon thunder storms and rain that comes down in buckets. Oh and Tropical Storms and Hurricanes.
When last we discussed the weather
we were staring down 3 systems. Hanna, Josephine and Ike. I am happy to report, we did not experience any of those. Josephine just melted away, thankfully. Hanna decided to pay a visit to the Carolinas. And Ike missed us. However, Ike did not miss wreaking havoc.
We did spend several days fretting over whether or not we would be securing things and holding tight for Ike. If you remember the “I like Ike” buttons from the Eisenhower administration in the United States the you will understand the buttons I wanted to be wearing, they would be the word “Ike” with the big red circle with the line through it over the word. Yep, I wanted an “I don’t like Ike” button. And I will bet that there isn’t a soul in Galveston, Texas that wouldn’t like one now as well. They got battered bad.
I have a friend near by in Austin. I figured she was inland but not by enough and that she was going to have some effects from Ike. She said that it was such a non-event for them. Houston though, wow, the sure felt it as well. I had a laptop out at HP there in Houston for repair that I wasn’t sure what was going to be the situation with that. It came back fine and fairly quickly even though the repair shop was closed for a week.
One really feels for the people in Galveston and Houston that are dealing with so much damage left behind and after being kept away from their homes for a week or more because the place wasn’t safe. The dread and anticipation must have been incredible.
I can only say how thankful I am that it did not hit here, and offer my sympathies to those that are impacted.
I hear we have Kyle now. I’m not sure where that is. I think it’s the one off the Carolinas again. It was so close in that I think it will only be a Tropical Storm and likely won’t make it to hurricane. We can sure hope. There’s another one down by Puerto Rico that they are watching. I think they are expecting it to just go north and die out somewhere up around Maine. As long as it stays out to sea, I don’t think we’ll care much.
And all of us living in the Atlantic Hurricane Basin, I just know we can’t wait for December 1.
Cheers
Just an update. I was wrong Kyle is the system that was down by Puerto Rico. They expect it to make hurricane and got right up the east coast of the US, far enough out to sea that it will probably only cause beach erosion and rip tides.
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