----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:28 AM Subject: Re: Homeowners Associations - Dictatorships in the US?
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:17 AM > Subject: Re: Homeowners Associations - Dictatorships in the US? > > > > > p.s. Rob or Dan, how does the tornado incidence in the Houston area > > compare with that of the Dallas area? Dan grew up around Dallas, and > > that's colored his perception of tornadoes a *lot*. > > We seem to get tornados several times per year. I've not been lucky enough > to get a good view of one, but I've seen the start of them several times. > At least I've seen suspicious looking clouds that can be found to have been > in the path of a storm that soon afterwards produced a tornado. > > Hurricanes are a much more realistic threat here. I remember a few years > ago when a force 4 hurricane was going up the coast and building. It ended > up going in at King Ranch, but another 12 hours on the path and the weather > service said it would miss the turn and end up hitting us. IIRC, it has 145 > mph sustained winds and was still building at the time. A hurricane is much > larger than a tornado, and that hurricane was near the top end of the F2 > scale for tornados. We are a ways inland, so we wouldn't get much more than > 75 MPH sustained winds for about 2-3 hours. :-) Rob would probably get 120 > MPH sustained winds. > I'm about 50 meters off Clear Lake. I might get the full brunt of the wind plus 6 - 10 feet of storm surge if the storm comes straight in from the gulf. During Alicia in '83 or '84 I had hurricane force winds (75 MPH) for about 16 hours. I got to go out in the eye of the storm and see stars at midday. At that time I was living in Pasadena and was 10 or 15 miles from the bay. xponent rob
