Humberto

Sorry that I didn't post up anything for what turned out to be Hurricane Humberto. This thing started as a low pressure area off the coast of Galveston in the Gulf which was to bring showers to the Houston area in front of an approaching cool front. The thing just sat out there and was elevated to tropical storm status later in the day. Here in Seabrook, we had winds 12-15 KTS from the east and Northeast and a few showers, but nothing much else. All day long that storm just sat offshore and hardly moved which was reminiscent of tropical storm Allison a few years ago that wound up dumping about 45" of rain over a few days. Later in the evening, probably after 10PM, Humberto started moving north and the winds elevated its status to a Cat 1 hurricane. I think a Cat 1 will blow your hat off if you don't hold on to it, but like all others, the real issue if rain and not wind. I think it finally went ashore up around Sabine Lake although some damage was reported on Boliver Peninsula around High Island - how you could tell if there was damage from the storm up there I do not know since it looks about the same to me as it usually does. Anyhow, there was hardly any rain here in Seabrook as this was a very compact storm. The good news is that the press was completely asleep at the switch and hardly even had a chance to tell us we were all going to die and all their usual hype. They even had to put their reporterettes in puddles made with garden hoses and blow their hair with fans to make it look like it was even raining. Of course, the post storm hype has more than made up for their negligence on the front end of this one - I think they even finally found someone deceased that they could blame on the storm. Next time I'll try to do a little better job of getting some radar shots up and stuff. More later.