Scary

The winds are howling outside.
The house creaks and groans.
The power of nature is humbling.

We walked out on the roof in the now-dark evening and were staggered by the wind. But still no rain! There could be any sort of debris being whipped around in those winds. Suddenly, a small scrap of metal comes flying at you and severs your aorta. Ah, fate!

We live in a unique area. In Southeast Texas, it can flood and not even rain a drop. The low barometric pressure of the hurricane squishes the ocean waters ahead of it, pushing it up well in advance of the eye crossing land. It pushes water into the bay and the bayous, producing flooding while not a drop has fallen from the sky.

I guess I shouldn't be so amazed at floods with no rain. It happens to cities and towns along major rivers all the time. Although they may not get any rain, they may suffer from massive rains upstream that have to move downstream. But here, it hasn't even rained upstream. Freaky.

Galveston didn't "sink" into the Gulf. The level of the Gulf increased enough to flood the city. And that's beFORE the storm surge hits.

It's a veritable tsunami!

One can only marvel at the ferocity and randomness of nature, and it's utter indifference to humanity.

All this is before the worst winds are supposed to hit. Yike!

Hopefully more later.