If you were to look at Facebook, you would think this area was devastated after the storm two nights ago. One poster on our owners group there "estimated that 50% of the properties here had damage."
Not even close.
There are a few park homes (not built to Texas Dept of Insurance standards) that lost skirting or had carports that came apart. Some roofs lost some shingles. But, most places appear to be just fine. There are shingles on the roads and palm branches strewn about. We keep our palm tree trimmed and didn't lose a single branch.
A lot of the owners in our community do not live her full time. It made for some anxious absent owners (some who use it as a get-away and others who rent properties through Air BnB or VRBO) who were worried about their places here. One person posted their address on that FB owners group and asked if anyone could take a look at it. I said I would swing by there and check it out... I didn't see any damage and posted a couple photos. That led to more people asking for the same. I spent a good deal of yesterday afternoon running around and photographing/posting... not one single place where the owners had asked me to do that had any obvious damage.
There were people playing golf yesterday afternoon. It was not "the devastation" that some were proclaiming. On SPI, there was some significant damage - I had posted a photo of the overturned RVs in the county park there. Sadly, the Convention Center (where my favorite Wyland Whaling Wall is) did lose about half of their roof. Some condo complexes that had shade shelters built had damage with those. Again, though, most places were fine. The local news has moved on to other things... like the surge of migrants at the border.
Alas, the weather weasels are predicting rain with differing chances of thunderstorms for the next 7 days. Late spring/early summer in the Tropical Tip.
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Reminds me of the news coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta / World Series earthquake in San Francisco. We were both in our offices downtown. A couple of sections of freeway collapsed (but not the Golden Gate which we needed to get home). A four square block section of the Marina District was on fire. But multiple camera angles and breathless talking heads from the media made it look like all of SF was in ruins.... it wasn't. That is where I really learned to distrust the mainstream media on anything.
Yeah, I remember that earthquake. One of those "big events" that says with you.
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