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Port Aransas Inside the Moon High Waters A2 Seashore Improvements A5 Remember When A7 Fishing A13 Issue 753 The Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 September 20, 2018 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around By the numbers The Island Island Rainfall By Dale Rankin Totals The talk Around The Island this Date Rainfall (in) week has been rain. According to the Sept. 04 .12 in National Weather Service we got nine Sept. 05 .01 in inches of it in one day last Saturday. Sept. 06 .25 in The folks over at the National Sept. 07 .41 Weather Service report that we have Sept. 08-10 Data missing had 19.37 inches of rain between Sept. 11 2.85 in September 1 and September 10 with Sept. 12 1.73 in a total through Wednesday of 22.67 Sept. 14 1.52 in at the Marine Science Institute in Sept. 15 9.45 in Port Aransas. We typically get 31.76 Sept. 16 1.71 in inches of annual rainfall on Padre Sept. 17 1.32 in Island but usually not two-thirds of it Total Rainfall: 19.37 inches over in three weeks. 17 total days. *Source: National Weather Service totals from the UT Marine Science Center. Dates reporting zero rainfall were not listed. Lyla Lyng on Jessamine St. For more pictures of high water on the Island, see page A2. IUPAC Holds Design Contract for Packery Candidate Beach snake We’ve literally got water coming Forum for up out of the ground. How wet is it? Repairs Awarded It’s so wet that snakes are fleeing the By Dale Rankin At-Large marsh along Whitecap and turning up in back yards on Dasmarinas and even The Corpus Christi City Council Council Seats on the beach. The mosquitos have took the first step on Tuesday to started humming their buzzing tunes repair damage to the Packery Channel but are just now starting to come out Jetties by awarding a contract for Thursday, Sept. 27 in full force. The old salts hereabouts $351,005 to begin design work to The Island United Political Action say way back in 1986 a similar rain rebuild the jetties. Committee will hold their second Candidate Forum for contestants for spawned so many mosquitos that The contract with HDR Engineering three At-Large seats on the Corpus coyotes were found dead due to Inc. calls for development of plans to Christi City Council on Thursday, blood loss so maybe we can at least reset the jetty stone along the inner September 27. trade one plague for another. reach of the jetties, behind the dune Whatever floats your boat line, which was damaged by moving The first IUPAC forum on September water during Hurricane Harvey in 20 focused on candidates for Corpus 2017. The contract also calls for at the foot of the jetty on the water They range from FEMA funds, which Christi Mayor and City Council repairing and replacing the Riprap side which would prevent rushing would likely be a re-imbursement District 4 seats. along the channel’s banks, repairing water from undermining the jetty of money previously spent, or state the concrete walkways along the structures, which is what caused the money from the RESTORE Act. IUPAC cont. on A4 south side of the channel, place a rock current damage. The total repair bill According to plans submitted to the breakwater between the parking on is estimated by city staff to be about Zahn Road and State Highway 361, city council on Tuesday the design The Litter $8 million but that could change once work is expected to be complete and replace navigation aids (lighting) the design work is complete. About at the end of the Packery Jetties. by June 1, with bidding done by Critter Lives! $4 million of that will come from October 1, and construction to begin One of the main questions the the Island Tax Increment Refinance immediately thereafter and complete redesign will address is whether Zone with the remainder from other by January of 2020. Saturday, September The high groundwater has filled the sources, currently not identified. two ponds leading into Padre Balli to include an impervious barrier 22, 9 a.m. - 1 Park and also flooded much of the new campground. To alleviate the p.m. Briscoe King problem crews have cut a slough Train to Help Save Cold Stunned Turtles through to the beach to allow for the By Donna J. Shaver, Ph.D. Pavilion water to drain. Juvenile green sea turtles are our The appearance of the Litter Critter most common year-round resident sea postponed last weekend due to rain turtles in South Texas waters. They is on for Saturday, September 22, are regularly seen swimming near from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Briscoe King jetties and feeding on algae growing Pavilion to gobble up items such as on rocks at the Packery, Aransas Pass, paint, gasoline, or any toxic materials, and Mansfield Channels. Normally, electronic items, branches, clippings, these turtles thrive in our waters, but yard vegetation, household items sometimes natural or human factors like furniture and regular trash are affect turtles and we must spring into acceptable. But please, no appliances. action to help them. Assistance from The City will supply two 40-yard volunteers and the public can make dumpsters and no commercial trash all the difference in the survival of will be accepted. Turtles cont. on A4 Cold stunned turtle Litter Critter cont. on A4 A little Island history Around cont. on A4 Raise the Causeway! Position Before 2004 heavy rains isolated Padre Island By Dale Rankin flood the roadway sometimes days before the hurricane made landfall statements from Islanders who arrived after 2004 making it impossible to drive across. may not know that before that time Due to dangers of incoming tides as candidates for rain and high tides like we had in storms approached the ferry system the past few weeks would have in Port Aransas was routinely shut meant Padre Islanders would have three At-Large down when an approaching storm been stuck on this side of the JFK was still well out at sea making the Causeway with only the ferry boats seats on the JFK Causeway the only evacuation in Port Aransas to connect us to the route off The Island. Coruus Christi mainland. When Hurricane Allen blew through Prior to that the three miles of the the Coastal Bend in 1980 it flooded the JFK Causeway from the base of the City Council are roadway stranding Island residents bridge on Padre Island to Laguna unless they had a boat. While there Shores Road in Flour Bluff was available in this were few Island residents at the time less than one foot above sea level the danger presented by Hurricane in many places and even less in issue on pages Allen got their attention and the others. Any kind of heavy rain or incoming hurricane tide would A15 and A16. History cont. on A4 September 20, 2018 Island Moon A 2 Rising Waters Fail to Dampen Island Spirits Wakemaker of the Week Some Islanders reveled in the rain during last weekend's heavy showers. Welcomes the newest member of our team! ISLAND, REALTORS USPS gets 'er done during the heavy rains last weekend -- even though he threw a wake to do it. Will Flaherty Call Will today for all of your real estate needs! 361-944-9095 [email protected] www.mikepusley.com (361)444-5268 [email protected] Pol. Ad Paid by the Mike Pusley Campaign, 101 N. Shoreline Blvd. Ste. 305., Corpus Christi, TX. 78401. Paul Peeler, Treasurer September 20, 2018 Island Moon A 3 and up to date. If the POA cooperates and this Moon Monkeys list accurately reflects our channel markers, Did Ya Mike Ellis, Founder Letters to the this greatly reduces our liability risks because boaters have been forewarned. As for the CG’s insistence for immediate action, they will Hear? By Mary "Scoop" Craft Editor cooperate with us as long as we are cooperating with them. The Coast Guard tells me that the POA has ignored them in the past and that we have New Advertisers used substandard pilings, signage, installed unauthorized aids, and have failed to maintain Blade’s Plumbing specializes in all our markers. Those days have ended. The CG is aspects of residential and commercial now insisting that we do it their way. Again, they plumbing. They also do kitchen and will cooperate with us as long as we cooperate bathroom remodels. They are locally Distribution with them. It’s time we do that. owned and offer a 10 % discount to Pete Alsop Marta Sprout Island residents. Call 271-6487 for a Island Delivery free estimate. Coldwell Banker For the Record Dr. Daxton Krugman at Advertising No member of the Canals & Waterways Island Chiropractic is offering Jan Park Rankin Channel Markers Update Committee has ever bullied the US Coast complimentary consultations. His Classifieds We have all seen the Coast Guard’s directive Guard, nor has any member of the committee office is located across the street from ordering us to immediately replace our sent any proposal to the US Coast Guard for CVS. Call 949-2847 for appointment. Arlene Ritley navigation aids with ones that are in compliance their review. The CW committee has never Majesty Outdoors Tide Changers Production Manager with CG regulations. Seems simple: get bids, attempted to apply for a CG permit, or filled out 5K Run presented by Lifeit Personal Abigail Bair get a barge, and do it.
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