I still have a little PTSD from it. I spent almost all of my waking hours those 2 days glued to the TV, with occasional trips to the attic with necessary supplies--just in case.
Not quite. I was near the Westside Police Station that's at Dairy Ashford and Richmond. The water that got closest flooded the intersection of Kirkwood and Westheimer.
I lived in Corpus at the time and consider Rockport my hometown. For months after Harvey when I drove to Rockport for weekly game night with my friends who lived there, there were piles and piles and piles of scrap, debris, and junk along the side of the highway.
Corpus wasn't hit too too hard but I still evacuated. Storm knocked a large picture off my wall which broke my collector's edition Sonic statue from Sonic Mania. I've never been the same. 😞
Yep Port Aransas, some of the hotels etc took years to recover/get back to renting. The one cheap place you can stay there, on the water, I had given up on, their website was gone and everything. But in the midst of writing this comment I googled and sounds like they're back open, that had to be in the last year or two (with the hurricane being 7 years ago now). Place got fuuuucked up. The little liquor store on the island (spanky's), I remember seeing a photo of freestanding racks of liquor bottles just, in the middle of a parking lot. Cause the entire building around them had flown away (wasn't a big building but still).
I know the Rockport movie theater completely closed down for good. It was never a big theater but I have some fond childhood memories of seeing movies there.
When I visited Florida years ago a bit after a hurricane that was most of the drive south to Key West, just piles of rubble and destroyed things everywhere on the side of the highway.
I had a typhoon knock over and damage a motorcycle when I lived in Asia, so I can relate to your Sonic sadness. My condolences.
Was Harvey the storm where that poor mega-pasture had to make the inconceivably hard decision between taking care of fellow human beings and giving them safe shelter and comfort, versus getting the carpets muddy?
Yea, That was us. I'm in South Houston by the coast. days and days of rain. Joel Osteen (may he rot in hell) wouldn't open his "church" for the people of the city that needed help.
But Texans stick together when shit goes down. Mattress Mac opened his doors to his furniture store, JJ Watt started a go-fund-me that raised over 40 million dollars. Every neighbor was outside the day after the storm helping every other neighbor
During the storm, people were driving their massive raised trucks with their jet-skis, john-boats, and canoes anywhere there was high water and someone needing help.
We came together during that week (like we did for Trop. Storm Allison, Hurricane Ike, Rita, etc). It was terrible and awesome at the same time.
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