"We really dodged a bullet," Beaumont official says, as Hurricane Laura downgraded to Category 2 https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/26/..._eid=6276fc82d6 The storm moved ashore just east of the Texas-Louisiana line around midnight Thursday. The National Hurricane Center warned that both states could experience massive devastation from storm surge and wind damage.
After battering the Gulf Coast at about midnight Thursday, Hurricane Laura has been downgraded to a Category 2 storm as it moves away from the Texas-Louisiana border.
About 70,000 Texans are out of power in the East Texas counties of Jefferson, Orange and Hardin, local media reported. The storm moved ashore in Cameron Parish, Louisiana — which borders Texas — around midnight Thursday after almost strengthening into a Category 5 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.
But as the morning wore on, officials in Southeast Texas were sounding optimistic that their corner of the state had escaped the worst of the hurricane's impact.
"I'm very pleased to report the damage to Southeast Texas was minimal. -- excerpt, rest at link above --
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
@Tinker I hope you are all doing well there. Did you get much of the storm?
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #2@Tinker I hope you are all doing well there. Did you get much of the storm?
All fine here. 1/4" of rain and no wind at all to speak of. The closest the storm got to me was this morning when it was about 150 miles due East of me. Lake Charles area got hammered!
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Tinker, we got a little more rain than you but not much otherwise. All good at the Sanguine household!
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
All Texans are relieved that there was no large impacts from Laura, but at the same time, most hoped that Marco could have held his shit together enough to come ashore and curve to the West and provide a few inches of needed rains.....
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America’s largest oil refinery in crosshairs of Hurricane Laura
The Motiva Enterprises Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, is temporarily shutting down ahead of Hurricane Laura. FOX Business’ Jeff Flock with more.
An intensifying Hurricane Laura over the Gulf of Mexico is threatening the center of the U.S. energy industry on Wednesday as the storm edges closer to land.
The federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said that as of late Tuesday, just over 84% of Gulf oil production and an estimated 61% of natural gas production has been shut down.
"After the storms have passed, facilities will be inspected," the agency said. "Once all standard checks have been completed, production from undamaged facilities will be brought back online immediately."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
The eye passed less than 100 miles away and driving around saw the black clouds moving pretty fast maybe 15 miles away.
Had very little wind, no rain, no effect.
Very localized.
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Quote: Isailedaway wrote in post #10The eye passed less than 100 miles away and driving around saw the black clouds moving pretty fast maybe 15 miles away.
Had very little wind, no rain, no effect.
Very localized.
So strange. It looked like a real monster, but it seems to have caused relatively little damage.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Quote: Isailedaway wrote in post #10The eye passed less than 100 miles away and driving around saw the black clouds moving pretty fast maybe 15 miles away.
Had very little wind, no rain, no effect.
Very localized.
So strange. It looked like a real monster, but it seems to have caused relatively little damage.
Cameron Parish, the place it came in and went straight north from, is likely the least populated area of Louisiana.
In Texas it would be the same if it came into the coast between Corpus Christi and Brownsville. Hurricane Allen in 1980 which threatened CC came ashore there and did little damage other than deer stands on the King Ranch. Laura likely just upset mostly fishing shacks and piers.
My own answer is no. Guidance is fine. Voluntary self-isolation is fine, and strongly advisable for the more vulnerable. Most of them will do it by choice. But coercion is not fine. There is no moral or principled justification for it. Lord Sumpton
Perfect location to minimize damage..... great deal of the nontrivial storm surge simply rolled over marshes, wetlands, and natural preserves.... places without too many people and few structures.....
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