HURRICANE!

[Courier Sportster]

Not the RAF variety but Harvey. Are you Warbird Texans getting out or battening down? Images of crumpled warbirds always abound in my mind at these times. Also that 1974 made for TV thing with Sgt. Carter where they flew a C-130 right into one. I was impressed but I bet that movie is awful now... Frank Sutton. had to look him up.

[Pat Carry]

Stay safe everyone in the hurricane's path. What precautions have been taken aboard the USS Lexington, at the Lone Star Flight Museum and other sites in the path of Harvey??

[HPDCapt]

I saw a video on Facebook where the folks at the Lexington were getting ready. The crew was moving aircraft off the flight deck, putting them on the elevator, and lowering them to the hangar deck. Hope all ride out the storm safely!

[Pogo]

I've been thinking that LSFM folks should be mighty happy about the move to EFD just now, imagine at least most of the goods have made it there by this time. Good for them!

The storm's not hitting here, but 100 miles down the coast around Rockport. So not as great a storm surge here, but we may get as much as a couple feet of rain out of the deal so can hardly wait to see what that might mean. I'm halfway between Houston and Galveston, and so far just a nasty evening outside, no serious wind or other wx drama that I've noticed. Meanwhile, it's good to see that the Lexington is on the "easy" side of the storm, so not facing the full brunt. I see this one as mainly a prodigious rain event except for those in the immediate path, and don't expect a lot of widespread destruction, certainly nothing like Ike. And hope like heck I'm right, 'cuz you never know what these things might do.

Living here since 1959, I've lost count of how many hurricanes and TS's I've "enjoyed" so far.

[lucky52]

Pretty cool that one of the elevators still works.

[Pat Carry]

Pretty cool that one of the elevators still works.

Yes, I was thinking the same.

[hurricane_yank]

Forget the hurricane - that is really neat to hear that the elevators still work on the old girl.

[wendovertom]

Update Kurt? The news here makes it all sound bad! The only bright spot seems to be Corpus Christi where they have reopened the airport and lifted the boil water order.

Tom P.

[airknocker]

From FB:
https://www.facebook.com/lonestarflight ... mXVI_t2GAQ

[Pogo]

Well it ain't good, that's for sure. The thing we're hearing over and over is "I've never seen that here before". It's certainly the craziest thing any of us have ever seen no matter how long we've lived here. Not everywhere is flooded, though; some of us are in areas that are a good way from it even now, but all of us are far from such things as, say, a good old normal grocery run which would be awfully nice right about now. Power outages have been sporadic; I myself went 36 hours without power but have a generator. I really have only vague ideas of what's going on around here - y'all probably know more than I do since I don't see TV news.

I'd really like to find out what's happening at all the airports, but that's just gonna have to wait. Be interesting to know which fares better in this one: Scholes (LSFM's late home, which they should be mostly out of) or Ellington (LSFM's new home which they should be mostly in). This is rainfall flooding, not hurricane-generated storm surge such as Ike delivered in 2008, and them's two different things. I hope all the best for all concerned, of course. This sucks, and we'll all be mighty happy when it's over.

Ha, just saw airknocker's post. That looks good.

[Steve Nelson]

Lone Star Curator Stew Bailey is a friend of mine. He posted on Facebook yesterday that he and his wife have lost everything. He and his wife barely escaped their flooding home, and at last report was staying with some Good Samaritans.

SN

[Tulio]

This is an image from Sport Flyers, Brookshire, TX taken by Leonard Millholand, the inventor and designer of the ultralights Legal Eagle and Double Eagle.

There are several warbirds based there.

I call it home.

I now, own lakefront property....


Saludos,


Tulio

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[K5DH]

I saw a report on TV this morning stating that Houston has received over 43 (forty-three) inches of rain from this storm. That's more than a year's worth of rain in about five days.

[airnutz]

Glug...Glug...Glug! Rub-a-dub-dub..2.5 million Houstonians in a tub...all rowing or baling! Personally I've been lucky quite a few times. No power outages. A coupla nights ago the water breached over my Great Stuff foam dam at the garage door entries which threatened to flood into the kitchen....Luckily the heavy rain band stopped right then! A few wet towels and coupla foot of damp back door carpet...WHEW!!!!!
Glad to hear Tulio and Pogo are cool. I thought Pogo's location would've been screwwed since his next door neighbors in Dickinson went under mandatory evacuation yesterday. I don't know how you handled no TV Pogo, but hopefully you had computer the whole time...having live radar access makes things much more bearable! I hope you didn't/don't have too much discomfort Tulio and you've managed a dry corner somewhere. Same wishes for all WIXers we haven't heard from yet. Stay safe folks!

PS
I planned pretty well for the blow and stocked plenty of supplies...One big oversight, I'm down to one(1!!!) corn dog! I'm saving it for the end of rain celebration or Thanksgiving Day...whichever comes first!! Got plenty of ALDI's German brats'nkraut tho...nice consolation. Almost over with...Good luck folks...

[Pogo]

I don't know how you handled no TV Pogo...

Heh. Beats me how you handled it. It just irritates me so bad I finally quit turning it on altogether and have been much happier. I switched 'er on for a short while yesterday evening to see, and could only stand about 20 minutes before shutting it back down. Yes, I have internet, and yes, it stays on constantly. Between radar and Youtube, I get a much saner "news feed", I guess you call now (sure miss Walter Cronkite). I have been bringing up channel 13 website to catch the TV weather, though. That's one thing that I'll give TV: the weather segment is still very much worth watching.

At any rate, it's great to know you're okay! I begin to wish I had stocked more food here, only made sure of a week's supply. Fortunately doing okay on BEER, the fortification of gulf coast hurricane bunker-downers everywhere.

I'm wondering why Clear Creek didn't leap its banks and do to LC what Dickinson Bayou did to Dickinson (and that's the only reason I type all this here instead of PM: in case somebody can answer that one - please excuse the OT jabber this once).

Tulio, thanks for that! Everything appears to be okay over there...? Wonder about Clover Field (Pearland Regional)?