re: Beryl Thread - the clean up begins...

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Now, if you want to redirect this energy toward the 75mph Cat. 3 Major Hurricane Idalia making landfall last year in the Big Bend of Florida I'd consider throwing my support behind you.

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I have no idea about what the official stats were on Idalia but I can confirm there was a lot of damage. We responded to Madison FL and the numbers of trees down and home damage was really bad.

It was a much different type of damage than what we have seen in LA. LA is more open and doesnt have as many trees as the big bend has. Madison was just a huge jumbled mess of trees and debris all tied up with powerlines.

The structure damage was not as bad as we had seen in LA but with all the power outages we had plenty of people to feed. Florida has strong building codes but it seemed a lot of the structures in Madison were trailers and did not stand up to the winds. I believe that area had not had a significant storm in many years so the structures were substandard to todays codes (they had not been damaged in prior storms and rebuilt to current, stricter standards).

Satelite lops play with my head but sure looks like the center of Beryl wants to try and get to all that convection in the Gulf. Like it's trying to bring the center north

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Headed Towards Texas

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Have rain here for the first time in a month...wouldn't hurt my feelings for a bit more

Brownsville to the Corpus area.possible strengthening Cat 2..shite, they don't want it, you take it, nooo..youu

I applaud your braveness on that GIF sir....good luck

That looks encouraging if it holds

Ah the golden era of Devin brugman.

12zEuro is caving towards the ICON. The 12z Euro is coming in between Lake Jackson and Matagorda bay

I live in Corpus Christi but am on vacation in Colorado right now. I’m not slated to fly back until Tuesday evening. That’s looking like a big question mark at this point.