27 Years Ago Today

[srainhoutx]

I along with many others in SE TX were without power after Hurricane Alicia passed...time sure goes by quickly....

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/storm_w ... im/alicia/

[Ptarmigan]

Alicia was an average size hurricane that formed from a frontal boundary that set off a mesoscale convection system in the Gulf of Mexico. It did massive damage in Southeast Texas and some were without power for weeks.

[txflagwaver]

I was just thinking about Alicia...wondering if someone would say something...I should have known SRain would remember!!
27 days without power... blocked off our street, BBQ'd everything in everyone freezer...had a neighbor that had a store with an ice machine so we were pretty good...formed a search party and inspected each yard...found a tree branch leaning on the pole and wire just enough to cause the power to not flow through the wire...found out later it was flowing through the tree to the ground...fortunately there were lots of branches down and no one got close enough to be shocked....

[kellybell4770]

I remember Alicia - I was 13 at the time - for some reason I was at my grandma's in Bellaire - sat out on her front porch and watched the storm go by (well not during the height of the storm) - during the eye my grandpa and I walked down to the bayou and were amazed at how high the water was - booked it back to the house for the next round - I lived in Alvin and my mom told me that we had a small tornado go through our back pasture and went right over the barn - praise God the horses weren't hurt!! Scary time for sure but God had his hand on us the whole time <3

[ticka1]

I was in college at SFASU - i was 21 years old - attending my last day of summer school. Took my final that day - couldn't get ahold of my parents for about 3-5 hours. The dorms were open for evacuaees(sic). Later that morning we had tropical force winds blowing across campus. Drove home - tree across Hwy 59 in Livingston - crews were in the process of removing. Power was out starting around Shepard - down to Cleveland. On hwy 321 it was flooded. Got home to massive tree damage in my parents yard. No power for 5-7 days. One thing I remember is it was HOT after the storm - my dad got heat exhaustion - so it was my brother and me doing the majority of the clean-up. My parents had close to 100 pecan trees on 5 acres and all were damaged. Always had memories of this storm until we had that other storm called IKE.

[gfreely]

Thanks srain for the stroll down memory lane...

I was living in Baytown and in high school at the time. I went outside to check out the winds....until a piece of corrugated metal flew past my porch.

I stayed with a friend for the week after (no power) and we wandered around the old Brownwood subdivision looking for some friends' houses....which were no longer standing or under 6' of water.

Good times....

[TxMomof2]

Wow, this makes me feel old. lol. I was 9 years old, and I remember Alicia well. I remember watching our shed out back blow away and being worried about our dogs. My dad was in management with Southwestern Bell during the strike that year, so he was working downtown during the storm. He had my mom go move his riding lawnmower to the garage after the shed blew away, in the height of the storm. Not the best decision ever. lol. My mom said she remembers trees falling as she was driving the lawnmower around the yard to the garage.

We lived in Woodbranch, and I remember Peach Creek being really high. (Or was that other flooding that year not related to Alicia?)

A power line between our house and the neighbor's house was taken down, so we were without power for more than 2 weeks. I can remember sleeping with the windows open and eating food that had been cooked on the Coleman stove by the light of the Coleman lanterns. I'm sure it wasn't fun for my parents, but it sure seemed fun to me.




Oh, interestingly enough, I remember that winter too. It froze on Christmas, and our pipes ruptured Christmas Day. My grandmother also died that year. 1983 was the year that my family likes to forget.