I spent a long weekend in Texas visiting and getting to know a long lost cousin and his wife. My trip coincided with Hurricane Beryl, which came in high over there beach house in Galveston and home in Houston. The eye of the storm went right over both houses, but other than a few tree limbs, there was no damage. They didn’t have power for 5 days, but everyone and everything was fine.

The last time I rode out a hurricane like that was when Hurricane Alicia came roaring over our house in Houston as well. The beach house on the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston was GONE, but our house was fine. we were out of power for like 6 days and it was in August. Man, it was HOT!