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Betcha it misses the RGV by a wide berth.......I am sure looking at it.
For grins every time in the last 20 years there has been a hurricane or TS, I have been working and staying out of the RGV. And currently? I am not there......sooooo odds have improved.
Ha, that's funny. We've been through Allen in the early 80s but we were living in McAllen. Not a big deal I guess but it scared my parents to death because of it's history of being a deadly, record breaking hurricane. As a kid it was fun to go out in the eye and ride my bike around. I missed Gilbert in '89 or whenever it was when I was at A&M. Brett was a huge scare in '99. That was a smaller Cat 5 that cut an impressive new channel up near Port Mansfield and nobody in the valley knew it had a chance to hit here until less than 24 hours before landfall. A little slower (or faster, i don't remember) and it would've taken a fork in the stream and come up the mouth of the Rio Grande.
We rode out Hurricane Emily in our rental on the beach in 2005. That storm was more than impressive, a cat 3/4 that was strengthening as it hit San Fernando (150 miles down the coast or whatever) and it rocked our house good, tore the dunes up completely and knocked out power for a day. That's as close as I ever want to get. Dolly destroyed a couple of my young trees in McAllen and was a pain for how s l o w l y it moved but it wasn't a real problem for us. I know everything east of McAllen wasn't as lucky with that one and property along the bay got messed up bad. The worst thing that happened in that storm for us is that it tore up our beach rental and we had to relocate to Port Aransas for the week. Not a fan of that place unless I'm fishing.
A friend of ours has a house out at the Shores on SPI and she said all of those homes in that subdivision have breakaway walls on the first floor. It will be interesting to see how those super expensive, highly engineered newer homes survive a major hurricane. I suspect that they will do very well.