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Where are you? Corpus? According to the locals, Francis caused more problems
than any storm in the last 15 or 20 years here in the Clear Lake area.
Francis was a slow moving tropical storm that had a lot of time to pile up a
huge storm surge... bigger than those fast moving 'canes. If you rode thru
the surge height of Francis last year, you saw the surge about as bad as it
gets. IMHO, if Bret hits us, the wind will be the big issue, not the
water... if it comes this way, I will be stripping the sails off and
stuffing them below.
Dave Covert
S/V Thistledown
on Jarbo Bayou near Houston, Texas
http://thecoverts.com/thistledown
>-----Original Message-----
>From:
>[mailto:]On Behalf Of Jim Isbell
>Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 4:29 PM
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>Subject: lv-ab: Huricane Bret
>
>
>Well, here we wait with bated breath to see if the huricane forcasters who
>say it will turn west are correct. If it doesnt turn west then we are dead
>in its path.
>
>Tomorrow I will check the lines again and maybe add some new lines. The
>pilings are only about 8 feet out of the water and a big surge could put
>them under water so I am considering putting two sets of lines on the boat,
>the normal ones that are loose on the pilings and will slip off the top if
>the surge is high enough and a second set with lots of slack in them that
>are tied firmly to the pilings so that a surge high enough to lift the
>first set off the pilings will take some of the slack out of the secondary
>set to keep the boat centered and not alow it to drift over the pilings.
>Anyone ever try this before?
>
>We plan on staying at the house as long as Bret stays below catagory 3 even
>if it hits us direct (we are on a bluff 47 feet above sealevel and have a
>concrete basement) but if it goes to 4 or above we will leave for higher
>ground.
>
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