Friday Sept. 10th

This morning Darlene Bryant and Clarice Cristensen provided the donuts. There was no discussion just nice fellowship.
I hear there's been some darn cool mornings up North!!! Sure wish we had some of it down here, we are still very hot and so humid!The hurricane Hermine did not cool us off. Just dumped lots of rain and made it all the more humid. We were so lucky here in the mid Valley. Mexico (South of Brownsville)got alot of wind and rain...They said on the T.V. 3500 homes destroyed. Brownsville got lots of wind, gusts of over 60, some gusts up to 70, lots of power lines down poorly constructed houses damaged and tree damage, as was the Harlingen area and North of there for a long ways. Early on that evening the T.V. said it was heading our way and to get ready. Tornado warnings near Olmito , Brownsville and other reports of either hurricane force winds or could have been tornadic winds. several reports on T.V. said there was lots of damage over to the East of us that was pretty severe.
But the storm would take a Northerly turn then Easterly and then back Northerly.We had a pretty steady rain late in the evening, then around 2:30 a.m. it really picked up, I thought the wind must be terribly strong, lasting about an hour (the most wind)
then the next morning on the news they said we only got 25 mph winds with gusts of 40-42, so most of the very intense storm went North after coming on shore.We had tornado watches all evening until morning. We got some pretty good downpours yesterday. The worse fear for us was the watershed getting more rain to our West but thank God it did turn North. We only got a couple inches of rain here.
I was so glad to hear Mary Loeke is getting along real good now with her new knee. She had infection after but got an email saying she's now doing good!
Also Larry Dixson is doing much better, he's in rehab. Jan Philipp recovering after having more surgery to prevent breast cancer, (she had pre-cancerous cells removed)
Aloyce Berglund had surgery on her toes. Now there's a new card up for Darlem McElwee, her brother passed away.
We don't get any report from Management this Summer. No one ever shows for Friday donuts. Grrrrr! Just from what we heard we are not getting any new black top just the overlay this Summer. Lots of pads being poured out in the 99's as I said before, I am not real sure but heard they are going to paint the office and small hall on the outside. The heater still not working in the pool. We have had no break-ins this Summer!!!