Storm

Many people have asked about what damage was done during the storm Monday night and early Tuesday morning. It wasn't supposed to be much of a rain  but the front coming down from Oklahoma wasn't expected to reach clear down here, but it did and a front coming up from Mexico met it, over us, especially Western Cameron county. It stalled out over us,  7 to 14 inches of rain. shelters open
in many towns, including here in Weslaco. Several people in the park said their rain gauges got full and they had to empty them a couple times, around 8 to 9 inches here. Western Harlingen hit hard with 14 inches, my friends in Palm Valley had 27 inches of water in their beautiful brick home on the golf course along with many others, they said it's the 3rd time it's happened. they have lived there  for 40 years. MonteAlto hit hard , a house roof blown off, there was high winds during this also, high winds right here in Weslaco. We had a lot of damage here with tree branches down, looked like possible lighning strikes, the lightning was terrific here and such loud claps of thunder, very frightening. Hardest hit area is said to be Sabastian , 4 inches of rain per hour, and on T.V. this morning the reporter there said it looks like a river as far as the eye can see there. Santa Rosa hit very hard many folks flooded out also LaFeria, 80 homes flooded. Lots of streets flooded yet from Alamo East, and we do have a 50% chance of rain today. streets here in Weslaco, S. on International Blvd, and I don't know how many other roads closed. Many Summer school activities cancelled

Lawn chairs in our pool, and lots of small branches and lots of palm tree debree all over the ground.
took the roof off Ken's Martin House.
With the high winds we are fortunate we didn't have more damage. The office will call if you have something that needs taking care of. some folks skirting blown out  but something like that can just be put back in. The North end of the park had higher levels of water, but not getting near into any homes, up to skirting or so. The outer mobiles on the North and around to Kolibas or so had electric, the office and card room had electric, but most of the park the electric was out since Mon. night at 11:00 p.m. or so until Tuesday early evening. Our frig and freezer kept things cold, only the icecream was soft, like Dairy Queen....the best thing is we are only 92 or so a little lower than the average temps for this time of the year.