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Jim,
We are very relieved that you made it through OK. How did people fair
further up the coast - the ones in the NE quadrant?
Regards,
Dave Benjamin
Aboard S/V Entropy
A Freedom 39 catrigged ketch
Grand Marina, Alameda, CA
http://www.optimalsolutions.com/sailinks.html
> I just got back from looking at the boat. The only dammage was where the
> loose lines (done to protect aginst the surge) alowed the boat to rub
> against a piling. When steel meets wood the wood gives up. I lost a
> little paint and the piling lost about 2" of wood. BTW, the media
> projected surge of 8 to 12 feet came in at 2 feet!!!!
>
> The media is making this sound like a disaster and the governor has even
> declared that we are eligable for low interest loans. Ok, now perhaps a
> few people in Corpus and this area had some dammage, but all I
> have seen on
> the news is a few downed China Berry trees and those are just weeds that
> crash in a 20MPH gust anyway. The other problems are the idiots who got
> into their cars this morning to tour the city and got stuck in high water
> situations.
>
> I immagine that 50 miles south of here where the eye went ashore there is
> probably some major dammage, but Corpus has less dammage that a
> Norther can
> cause in a typical winter storm.
>
> My kids were scared to death for us as they were listening to the news
> media but we didnt even get a broken tree branch and we are on
> the top of a
> hill where we get all the wind.
>
> The real disaster is that in the future the locals will discount the media
> by 57% and then when the media is wrong on the low side there will be a
> disaster because no one is listening to them any more.
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