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One more post-Harvey report: my mom’s friend who lives out on Oso Bay (south side of Corpus Christi on mainland across from Mustang Island, so also out of the worst of the hurricane’s path) messaged to say he and all his animals were okay. Turns out one of the cows had her calf during the night, so he named the bull-calf Harvey.

absynthe–minded:

thebluemeany:

jkthinkythoughts:

star-anise:

antivillain:

zombeesknees:

leepacey:

I say, jolly good show, chaps. And did I panic? I think not.

#the comic relief who is genuinely comic  #and who makes the ‘incompetent bufoon’ trope actually work as an endearing quality as originally intended  #well played movie – well played  #john hannah  #WHAT A FOX

#but! BUT!!!#THE GREAT THING ABOUT JONATHAN#IS HE’S NOT INCOMPETENT#he can read ancient Egyptian albeit not as well as his baby sister#he clearly has an interest in archaeology if only for treasure-related reasons#he had to go through intensive schooling to get the sort of permit required#to even have digs of his own#WHICH HE CLEARLY DOES#on a dig down in Thebes#he says and Evie believes him#Jonathan reads from the Book of the Living and he’s an excellent shot with a rifle and is clearly a boxer#Jonathan is SO COMPETENT and SO IMPORTANT#while simultaneously being plucky comic relief without JUST being plucky comic relief#u get me?

Jonathan, like Phryne Fisher, clearly hasn’t taken anything seriously since 1918.

And, I would suspect, for similar reasons.

^^^This. Jonathan being in World War I makes total sense. It’s
almost impossible for him not to have been. Given his age and background, he probably
volunteered in 1914.  

Of course he’s going to not take anything seriously. Of
course he can shoot. The drinking, the skittishness, the recklessness, the
sense of ‘keeping your head down’, the scepticism about traditional heroism….

The one with more actual experience of death, carnage and
fighting is Jonathan. Not Rick. Not Ardeth Bey. Jonathan.

When Rick says ‘I’ve had worse (situation/odds)’ and Jonathan replies “ Me too”. That’s probably true. 

Drop The Mummy
into the real world context and that’s a character who’s going to have seen a
lot of his school friends die, along with the myths and tales of heroism they
were raised on. Sort of makes the line where Evie’s scolding him for drinking/messing
about a lot darker…

Evie: Have you no respect for the dead? Jonathan: Of course I do, but sometimes I’d rather like
to join them.

@phoenixwrites have you seen this

Rain came back for a bit – right now the total for my location is less than three inches. Wind and location means that winds are sucking any moisture in the air out to sea and back up and around to dump rain on Victoria and Houston. The wind is still averaging 30mph and higher. Damage last night was almost all wind damage at the south end of town/out on the islands or further up the coast at Ingelside/Rockport.

Wifi still not back. Satellite tv never failed on me, though people lost their cable (go figure).

Staying inside, will gladly message with anyone because I have little else to do.

Live feed of shoreline and the marina – almost no visible damage to any of the boats, buildings, roads. The Selina Memorial statute doesn’t have her life vest on anymore (that was adorable).

edit- got footage of how leveled Rockport is. Houses smashed. And twenty miles south in Corpus Christi – look at the two-story houses barely touched, all the boats perfectly fine. “Feels like a bad day to play golf”

Watching local news – video in town showing minimum building damage. Some trees down. Minor debris. Looks like the causeway over to Port Aransas barely damaged. Rockport was badly hit – but reports unsure if people were in that high school.

Had the storm make landfall twenty miles south of where it did, actually hitting Corpus, it could have been a catastrophe. But with the majority of the heavy rain bands on the other side, at least where I am, I have no rain. Still windy, a bit more than normal (and I’ve mentioned again and again what CC considers normal wind).

Houston will flood, but that city is a bowl that floods easily, there was nothing to do to stop that from happening.

News reports – yeah bayous flooding Houston already. Here in Corpus, no rain, almost no flooding

Wifi issues so my last update from five hours ago didn’t got through, but the whiny dog woke me up like she wants to at 4:30~

Haven’t looked outside but I think it’s still windy. I can’t stress enough that where I am personally I’m safe and fine. Still have power. (Have the local co-op electric. City power has always been shitty)

As I predicted, the hurricane hit Rockport, and sadly as also predicted at least from the local reports I watched, damaged hard. Worst of all was the Rockport-Fulton High School partly collapsed in the eye wall storm, and it was being used as a shelter at the time. Haven’t heard what the injuries were. Also a few other buildings were damaged with people trapped.

Storm has moved on up to Victoria now. As said, the real issue is how long it’ll linger and cause flooding for the week.

We are under a water boil, but as the newscaster said, it’s just for drinking and cooking and not even as bad as the water contamination problem of the beginning of summer when it wasn’t safe to use city water for anything even if boiled. (That was a fun week). Yeah, that’s Corpus.

-map of Texas coast: you have multiple large-ish bays of roughly equal size all protected by a long string of barrier islands that outline the curve. Corpus Christi Bay is where the Nueces River empties into. Port Aransas and Aransas Pass are the communities on the north side of the bay/barrier island (North Padre Island is the southern side bay barrier island, South Padre of Spring Break infamy) Most of the time if I mention going to the beach I’m going here. Go up not even thirty miles from Corpus Christi Bay and you get the bay that Harvey hit, where the community of Rockport is. (Copana Bay? Copata?) Used to cross the bay bridge into Portland all the time when I had to go way into town because that was where my bank was, which is the town between Rockport and Corpus Christi proper. Rockport is where the wildlife sanctuary with the endangered cranes is. Another thirty miles or less up the coast from there is Port Lavaca. That’s San Antonio Bay, I think. San Antonio (Alamo) is a two hour drive inland and northwest and where people evac’d. Go inland from that bay is to reach the towns of Goliad and into the hills the city of Victoria. Up the coast from Lavaca is Galveston/Galveston Bay and the huge Metroplex of Houston (of the “hey if you counted its suburbs technically it’s bigger than Belgium”).

If you were to go directly west about halfway between CC and Rockport until you hit the Nueces River about thirty/forty miles inland – that’s roughly where I live. Because of how the hurricane angled, I only got/am getting the backside of it. Most of the heavy rainfall for the following week is going to be east of me.

Ironically I have this feeling it’ll be my family in Austin that will have more problems with flooding than me.