Effects of Harvey

It’s only been short of 3 months since Hurricane Harvey left much of the Texas Gulf Coast in ruins. As I mentioned, we had seen quite a bit of impact in the areas around Houston with parks being closed as they were trying to clean up the debris. But we really didn’t see the bulk of Harvey’s impact until we got down to the barrier islands near Corpus Christi.

We had heard that Rockport had been perhaps hit the worst. In our many trips to Port Aransas we enjoyed Rockport a great deal. Although we had heard it had been leveled, we weren’t mentally prepared for what we saw. In the hundred-foot-wide center median of Highway 35 were literally miles of storm debris – entire collapsed buildings and everything – that simply had been piled there by the cleanup teams as there was nowhere else to put it.

After driving through all that devastation, we took the ferry ride across to Mustang Island to see how Port Aransas had fared.

Port Aransas hadn’t apparently been leveled by Harvey, but I don’t think we saw a single one of the dozens of tourist gift shops that wasn’t blown out or boarded up. Our favorite lunch haunt in town, Moby Dicks, was in shambles and it was hard to tell how long it might be before it is open for business again, if ever. We had planned to spend the month of March here, but as of now Surfside RV Park where we had reservations is still closed, and will no doubt miss this entire winter season.

Talk to you soon!