Harvey is coming right for us! 8/24/17.

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Thursday Morning – Here It Comes

You know when the bald dude from the Weather Channel shows up it could be bad.  The pressure is dropping, it is continuing to form and getting stronger by the hour, and it is headed right for POC.  Yikes!  We have gone from a Tropical Storm Warning to a real Hurricane Warning.  It now looks like it will make landfall somewhere close with winds hitting 75 – 110 depending on how it continues to grow.  The storm surge on the coast will be 3 – 6 feet as it currently forecast, but it all depends on how it grows, but 6′ is more likely.  No matter what it is going to smack us, and from the looks of things flooding will be the real problem and will be ugly.  They are talking some nonsense like the potential to rain 12″ in nothing flat!  If it rains like it is forecast, 3 days solid, it will be a real disaster, especially for the folks from south of Houston into Louisiana where they are already saturated.

It is 6:30 am Thursday morning as I write this.  The Boss had airline reservations out of Austin this morning as she heads to Iowa for her parents estate sale.  We did not make reservations for me not knowing a couple of weeks ago whether I would be cleared for travel and lifting at the sale.  She is slated to return on Sunday evening, so that could sure be up in the air.  We have made alternative plans should her flight be cancelled, just have to see how it plays out.  I just filled up the 4Runner and will batten down the hatches today.  Our home is on a high spot and with this forecast to be a real rain event the house should be fine.  As far as supplies I am good for days so no shopping.  If the crowd at the gas station is any indication the grocery stores will be nuts today.  Not sure how this is going to shake out but I am ready for a couple of days of hanging out, then if it floods helping anyone who needs it.

Of course the power going out is a real problem should it occur, but if nothing else will hang at my buddy Jeffish’s place and have a little hurricane party.  Every disaster goes a little better with beer.  Stay tuned, I will blog constantly over the next few days, and as soon as I can safely get out I will be out taking pictures, but of course staying the heck out of the way.  If it gets ugly the emergency folks do not need anyone adding to the confusion.  And the weather channel just now said the pressure is really dropping and the winds are above 60 mph with the possibility of a cat 2 or even a 3.  It is like watching a car wreck in supper slow motion.  I have never heard “Victoria” more on the news in my life!   Hope you are all ready!

Wednesday

Headed in.

After a trip to Academy for some 1/4 and 3/16th slip sinkers I took care of a couple of yesterday’s boating issues and at 3:00 I headed to the lake.  I wanted to be sure that everything is working properly before I start hitting the coast next week, depending on how what could be nothing more than a big rain event, all the way to a real hurricane.

It was 99 degrees when I hit the lake.  It is still falling, though that will change, and the water temp was still in the mid 90’s.  I immediately headed up lake to where I wacked them yesterday.  The wind was fairly flat and there were thunderstorms here and there.

I was glad to have this one before being run off.

To make a long story short I put 6 or 7 in the boat on the watermelon red beaver style plastic, but other than this one they were really small.  Then about 6:00 I thought something was falling off the trees when those huge drops started falling, almost like hail.  There was a few flashes of lightning in the distance so I called it a short day and headed to the house.  So much for the Boss being gone and fishing till I puke.

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I got a couple of nice welcome back comments and wanted to share them with you.

Glad to hear you are back in the game!  Good luck and look forward to reading about your coming up adventures!

Thanks for the comment Ross, hope you enjoyed yesterdays.  It won’t be long, depending on how the weekend goes, before I will be back on the coast, it can not be soon enough.  And I got this one from Jimmy and it is right on point this weekend on the Texas Coast

Great to have you back. I sure missed the reports. I will be heading to POC just to collect boats and batten down the hatches. Keep the reports coming!

Hope it does not come here as bad as it might, but this could be ugly.  (And now it is, it really has intensified since I wrote this Wednesday.)  Depending on how it goes since I have the weekend free I will be out documenting things if it comes like it might.  And my buddy Faye and her husband are trying to decide if they are coming down to pick up their boat out of a storage building at POC.  And I got this just now as the possibility of getting something ugly intensifies according to the weather channel.

Good to see you back out there! Looking good with the fish. That first bite and hookup had to be sweet. Stay safe this weekend!!

Jim

It was.  I did not take a picture of the first one, one of 5 or 6 small ones, but trust me I was just has happy as I was with the big one. As I am writing this it is Wednesday afternoon, and by time I get the post of this afternoon’s fishing up tomorrow we should have a pretty good idea of what we are facing.  Thanks all for your comments.

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That is all for this morning.  Pray for the folks right on the coast, this has the potential to be a real freakin’ disaster.  I am as ready as I can be and though I am not concerned for my safety I really am concerned for folks on the coast.  6 foot of storm surge will decimate places like POC.  So here we go.  Keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines

About Redfishlaw

I am a retired attorney who just loves to fish. I was a freshwater guide for about 20 years and now have moved to the salt. I am not the greatest fisherman, but I am committed. So if you love fishing, and want to learn what little I have to offer, stop by anytime.
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