Most of my life I have spent in Fort Bend County, Texas. Currently, I live less than 20 miles from Galveston County. Hurricanes are a part of our lives here in Fort Bend County, but this year I will take hurricane preparedness a lot more seriously.
On August 18, 1983, Hurricane Alicia hit near Galveston Island. Hurricane Alicia was a category 3 hurricane. This was my first hurricane experience as a resident of Fort Bend County, and I had no idea what to expect. My husband and I had two young children and were living in a house that we did not feel was safe to weather the storm in, so we went to ride it out with my in-laws at their house in Rosenberg, Texas. They have lived in Fort Bend County all their lives and know a lot about hurricane preparedness.
I remember that the first thing I heard upon awakening the morning Hurricane Alicia moved in was that a tree had fallen on a house and a woman had been killed. That's when reality set in for me. We still had t.v. during the hurricane, and as a matter of fact we did not lose power at any point. We sat in my mother-in-law's breakfast room and living room and watched the hurricane rage about us, blowing roofs off houses and sending huge tree limbs scooting across the large yard.
The afternoon after Hurricane Alicia had blown over, we went home and found our old house intact. We had survived the hurricane, and life went on as usual. We even felt a little silly that we had left our house in search of a safer place.
Fast forward to September 13, 2008. We knew Hurricane Ike was coming. It had been 25 years since Hurricane Alicia, our last big one. We heard Hurricane Ike was a category 2 - piece of cake, right? After Hurricane Alicia, a category 2 was no big deal. Unfortunately, we didn't think too much about hurricane preparedness.
On August 18, 1983, Hurricane Alicia hit near Galveston Island. Hurricane Alicia was a category 3 hurricane. This was my first hurricane experience as a resident of Fort Bend County, and I had no idea what to expect. My husband and I had two young children and were living in a house that we did not feel was safe to weather the storm in, so we went to ride it out with my in-laws at their house in Rosenberg, Texas. They have lived in Fort Bend County all their lives and know a lot about hurricane preparedness.
I remember that the first thing I heard upon awakening the morning Hurricane Alicia moved in was that a tree had fallen on a house and a woman had been killed. That's when reality set in for me. We still had t.v. during the hurricane, and as a matter of fact we did not lose power at any point. We sat in my mother-in-law's breakfast room and living room and watched the hurricane rage about us, blowing roofs off houses and sending huge tree limbs scooting across the large yard.
The afternoon after Hurricane Alicia had blown over, we went home and found our old house intact. We had survived the hurricane, and life went on as usual. We even felt a little silly that we had left our house in search of a safer place.
Fast forward to September 13, 2008. We knew Hurricane Ike was coming. It had been 25 years since Hurricane Alicia, our last big one. We heard Hurricane Ike was a category 2 - piece of cake, right? After Hurricane Alicia, a category 2 was no big deal. Unfortunately, we didn't think too much about hurricane preparedness.
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Excellent article :)
Euwyn Pegues
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06/10/2009
Very good info. We all need to go over this and get ready. We live a very long distance from where Ike came in and we had no water for nearly a week and no electricity for a week.
Great article!
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