Tuesday, After Hurricane Nicholas
Hurricane Nicholas made landfall at 12:30 am Tuesday on the eastern part of Matagorda Peninsula, about 10 miles west of the small city of Sargent. It had maximum winds of 75 mph at landfall. The storm is moving about 10 mph to the north-northeast, and along this track the storm should pass almost directly overhead Houston on Tuesday after sunrise. After that it should turn more to the northeast.
Nicholas makes landfall south of Houston… = Space City Weather
Woke up this morning to a quiet and damp world. The wind has been still since 8:00 this morning. A misty rain has continued to fall.
Overall, though the yard looks like a war zone, it looks like we fared quite well on a near miss from hurricane Nicholas. He came ashore a little after 12:00 a.m. and has slowly made his way inland since. If you look at the weather sites that actually show wind patterns, the winds are circling our location as we speak and have been all morning. So going by that, we appear to have awoken in the eye of the storm.
The only bad thing about living with a large tree covered lot is the aftermath of any type of wind storm. As you can see from the video above, the areas under the trees are covered with small branches and leaves, larger dead branches, and just general detritus from the trees themselves. Hopefully, by the weekend we will have dried out enough to pick up most of the bigger stuff. As far as the leaf clutter goes, the lawn mower can take care of that.
At least for once in our life, the wife didn’t have to fight bad weather trying to get to work in Houston. Her facility actually announced they were closed yesterday. That hasn’t been a common practice over the years. But I appreciate their looking out for their employees and my wife.
Nicholas has been one of the strangest hurricanes I’ve ever watched come ashore. All day yesterday, I looked for the eye to form or at least some semblance of rotation… But nothing ever showed. Even as it came a shower there was no eye formation. All of the rain was off to one side, and it still is.
The Prognosticators still have the center of the storm located just to my west. For all of the storm features located to my north and east. Many of them have already crossed Houston itself.
Oh well, the storm has passed, unlike the other trials and tribulations we’ve been living through. So y’all stay safe, stay healthy, and pray for the nation and the world.
Catch y’all on the other side…
Nicholas sure did make the difference between the ‘dirty’ and ‘clean’ sides of a storm visible! I slept through it, but when I got up around 6, the rain had stopped, and so had the wind. Around here, the cypress trees shed a lot of leaves and branches, but that doesn’t surprise me. They’re about at the point in their cycle when they’d be dropping needles anyway. The Bolivar ferry’s running again, and Clear Creek is dropping. Let the people say “Hallelujah!” We sure did get blessed with this one. TNMP says 7 p.m. for restoration in Galveston/Brazoria counties. We’ll see.
I know I was blessed to not lose power for once… There is nothing like a good nights sleep in a storm. That is something I normally don’t get.
I was up at 4:30ish and the wind was howling and the rain was blowing. Radar at the time showed the storms center somewhere around Bonney over toward the Brazos River.