Hmmm

[telophase]

Our insurance company sent us email saying that as we might be in the path
of Hurricane Harvey, they encourage us to take all necessary precautions.

We are over four hundred miles inland from Corpus Christi, where
it's predicted to hit.

The kicker? Our insurance company is in San Antonio, 268 miles closer to
Corpus than we are, and should know better.

Comments

[rachelmanija]

You'd think Texans would remember how big Texas is.

[telophase]

You'd think!

[ckd]

To be fair, I don't know how quickly it'll dissipate after hitting land nor what the predicted path of the remnants is.

They certainly haven't notified me to batten down the hatches in...um...Seattle. :-)

(I suspect we have the same insurance company.)

[telophase]

We'll be getting some rain and maybe thunderstorms, but if it's more than that, I'd be extremely surprised. :)

[selenite0]

I see we have the same insurance company. Yeah, I was amused by that. My mom has an excuse for getting all worried until I assured her I'm north of the flood zone.

[telophase]

We've got friends in Houston and Pearland who might be getting more of it, but all the relatives who used to live down in the path of the storm have died off over the past decade, so I don't think I know anyone in trouble right now.

Live from Pearland: http://i.imgur.com/609H4C8.gifv

[selenite0]

We posted a shelter offer to our friends down that way, but no one took us up on it.

[telophase]

Our Pearland friends include a meteorologist, so I expect that they're well in hand. Looks like the bad part of the storm is on the east side of Rockport and heading north anyway.

[golden_bastet]

Well, hope you're doing okay; it sounds from here like you are likely just seeing some rain.

(I was supposed to live through Sandy, but was actually on vacation when it hit; however, I came back about 36 hrs later, and things were a mess, even with not being near any flooding. Gas was scarce for days, the power was out for days, and when I left my vacation, I wasn't even sure my final flight wouldn't be cancelled. So now I pay attention to things.)

[telophase]

Yup, doing fine. The worst problem we've had is the sprinkler sensor failing to sense the rain and unnecessarily setting off the sprinkler system last night. We've got friends and family in Houston and other southern areas, but so far everyone's checked in OK.

Toby actually moved up here from Houston right after Ike. He weathered the storm in his apartment, but the next day so much power was out that they had a boil-water order, so he packed up his computer, drove to Austin, and spent the week crashing on the couch with friends and telecommuting. Came back the next weekend to move, and there was still no power on in his apartment (about which the movers complained).

[yarrowkat]

A few years ago, our insurance co decided we were at deep risk of flooding because we are a half-mile from the Rio Grande.

a river which, when it is running nice and high in the summer, you can WALK across without getting wet above the hip.

a river which has extensive earthwork levies on both sides, a goodly distance from that "deep" channel, and a vast drainage network in the form of irrigation ditches that spread out from it at a width of several miles on each side, for the distance of almost the entire length of the river -- i think the only parts of the Rio Grande that do not feed the acequia irrigation systems are near its headwaters in the San Juan Mountains, and where it goes through the steep-walled Rio Grande Gorge, up north. that's why they call it the lifeblood of the southwest: we all would not eat except for that river feeding thousands of farms. however, that means that if it starts flooding, ever, all they have to do is start opening ditch-gates and it will disperse safely into several hundred miles of muddy fields.

then they forgot about the part where there are no hurricanes here because wow are we inland, and also this is a desert. 10" of rainfall a year, in a good year.

a year and some later, the class-action lawsuit that an Albuquerque-area HOA filed against said insurance company had resolved, and they had to stop charging mandatory flood insurance for everybody in the Middle Rio Grande basin, because reality.

[telophase]

Sheesh!