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Goodbye Hanna! Texas' Top by Dale Rankin We Got Some Wind and Rain on Trading Our Little Sandbar This Week Inside the Moon Stormy Weather A2 Beaches A4 Cleaning Up A9 Island Outdoors A11 Issue 850 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Matthew Rohmfeld Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 July 30, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The By the numbers Island Goodbye Hanna! Texas' Top By Dale Rankin We got some wind and rain on Trading our little sandbar this week. Think of Hanna as a shot across our bow Partners reminding us that it is after all Source: Texas Comptroller hurricane season and we need to be ready to head OTB ina hurry. As Texas Export Destinations/ storms go Hanna wasn’t a whopper. 2019 Export Values An Island anemometer recorded (Billions) steady winds of 61 miles per hour Mexico $108.6 with gusts up to 70 mph, just enough to get our attention. The National Canada $28.5 Weather Service said the peak South Korea $16.6 observed water level was 5.48 feet above Mean Sea Level at Bob Hall Pier Brazil $13.5 which eclipses the previous highest Netherlands $11.7 water level measured on record there Japan $11.3 which was 4.29 feet above Mean Sea Level during Hurricane Ike in China $11.0 2008. The NWS said the highest United Kingdom $9.7 wind speed was 65.9 mph with gusts of 89.8 103.3 mph were both India $8.7 measured at Rincon Del San Jose, TX Taiwan $8.5 where the minimum record pressure Islanders are digging out this week after Hurricane Hanna swept across our shores. The pictures tell the story best. Hotel Occupancy for the of 976.1 mb was also recorded. The This is our version of the first draft of history for Hurricane Hanna, the storm that was. offshore buoy surfers use to judge Above: Bob Hall Pier after the storn removed the T-Head. Photo by Laurie Lyng. weekend of July 24-25 incoming waves reported swells of 21 feet. 52.8% Corpus Christi The waves lapped over the walkway 47% Island and SPID corridor at Bob Hall Pier taking off the “T” at Floating Cabins in Baffin Bay Registration the end. Nueces County Coastal Park Board Chairman Jim Needham said Area Take Pounding During Still Open for $3.45 million Sunday the county will get the pier inspected and if it is deemed safe will Hurricane Hanna Seats On Flour for Island reopen the pier as it currently exists; By Dale Rankin an “I” instead of a “T.” The parking Bluff School lot there was destroyed for the Owners of floating Projects in City umpteenth time in recent memory. cabins around Baffin Bay Board We’re starting to get the impression are reporting that about Bond Package that Mother Nature doesn’t want a eighty percent of the Island projects will get $3.45 million parking lot there. The sunken boat cabins in that area broke Island taxpayers for six projects as part of a $75 in Lake Padre made the Guardian loose and ended up along million bond package approved by newspaper in London. the King Ranch shoreline make up $2.5 billion the Corpus Christi City Council on and only about half are Tuesday. salvageable. of $3.2 billion A total of 42 projects around the city Eyewitnesses said taxable property in will go before voters in November. Hurricane Hanna The projects will be broken into generated a five-foot the district categories which include $61 million storm surge through the in Street improvements, $12 million Some cabins weren't so lucky. Filing for the four seats on the Flour Land Cut doing severe Bluff school board remains open in Park improvements, and $2 million damage to cabins in its through 5 p.m. Monday, August 17. for Public Safety projects. Now that this boat has found its way path. A majority of seats on the seven- Island projects to the bottom it becomes the salvage The Texas General Land Office member Board of Directors are project for the private landowners Island projects included in the bond announced this week they are up for election in November. who own the bottom of the lake. package are as follows: working with cabin owners to help Current members Jennifer Welp, The dune line in Kleberg County them rebuild. Vice-President Michael Morgan, Douden Park $300,000 playground was cut back by about fifty feet and The “Church” an iconic cabin at Jerry Hooper (appointed), and Jeff equipment we were once again reminded that in Baffin Bay was partially sunk and Rank each face re-election on the Park Road 22 Median improvements times of turbulent waters the Michael is coming to the area under the JFK November ballot. The seats are all At- at Compass Street $300,000 J. Ellis Seawall is our best friend but Causeway for repair. Large for four-year terms. is starting to show its age. One of the Jackfish from end of Aquarius to The district lists total revenues most vivid photographs of Hanna’s Witnesses said floating cabins at Park Road 22 $900,000 of $50,138,774 in the 2019-2020 aftermath was this shot at Portofino Nine Mile Hole broke loose during adopted budget and levies a property Park Road 22 South Access Road, on the seawall where this room was the storm and were driven by the tax of $1.07 per $100 of property Commodore to Jackfish $1.6 million left without a wall but with everything wind into land cabins near the cut The Church made it through the value and makes up slightly more inside still apparently intact. entrance causing damage. They said storm on a wing and a prayer. Encantada at Nueces County Park many of the floating cabins that broke than half of the property tax burden $650,000 loose were able to be salvaged by The cabins are privately owned and for Island property tax payers. Beach Access Road 2A Engineering owners but about half are damaged located on leases through the Texas for new access road between 1 and 2. beyond repair. General Land Office. Election cont. on A4 Near Porto Villageo. A little Island history Promises Made During Island Annexation Room with a view. Photo by Mary Craft.. and Why Our Power Goes Out So Much By Dale Rankin When we play chicken with The day was November 20, 1981. not do once The Island became part hurricanes around here the first The day that the Annexation Service of the city. question that runs through the Plan for Area D of The Island was collective Island mind is, what It makes many promises, some kept, signed making the majority of The do I have in my freezer? That’s and others more like the promise Island part of the City of Corpus because we all know a power outage made by the Great Father to the Christi. is coming. Hanna left 197,400 Native Americans that would remain customers without power and some Area D included most of the area inviolate as long as the Mosquitoes Islanders didn’t get power back on south of Commodores, east of shall grow and the Gulf waters shall until a late as Tuesday. For most of SPID and north of Whitecap, and flow. us things went dark about midnight southward along SPID to the City Power lines Saturday and we sweltered in dark Limits at Sea Pines. One of the provisions of the MOU houses until Sunday evening. The Memorandum of between the city and the PIPOA As is the case with many storms Understanding which was was that power lines on Padre Island that bear down on us Hanna turned finalized between the Padre Island would be buried; something we all at the last minute. She went south Investment Corporation, the Padre likely pondered as we sat in the dark where Hurricane Harvey went north. Isles Property Owners Association, last weekend. But finding out where Longtime Islanders can name off a and the City of Corpus Christi is this plan went awry is mighty nigh dozen storms that have turned at the the Social Compact between the impossible because city records, as last minute as they come close to City of Corpus Christi and Islanders spelling out what each will and will Island street signs prior to annexation. Around cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 July 30, 2020 Island Moon A 2 Stormy Weather! The folks on Captain Kidd had some fun waiting out Hurricane Hannah. This is Matthew Rohmfeld and neighbor Steven of Captain Kidd. They had a friendly A lifeguard stand found its way to the dunes during Hanna. Photo by Mary Craft. photo competition to pass the time. Send letters and photos to editor@ islandmoon.com NEW YORK STYLE & HOME OF THE The parking lot at Bob Hall Pier will take at least forty five days to rebuild. Photo by Debbie Noble INVESTMENT HOME LOANS GIANT NON-OWNER NO INCOME Let us Teach You How to NONI! 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