November 27, 2019| Issue

Inside the Moon Island Sunset A2 Dotson's Best College Rivalries A8 Moon at World Series A9 Moon on a Spoon A14 Issue 815 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 November 27, 2019 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Photo by Miles Merwin Around Harbor Island The Island It's Time to LAPO! Plans By Dale Rankin La Posada Lighted Boat Parades December 6-7 Part I: Dredging It’s Thanksgiving on our little Editor’s note: Each month we cover Boats still needed the meetings of the Port of Corpus sandbar and if the Weather Wonks The first event for the 45th La Posada get it right it will be pushing up on 80 Rally point Christi Commissioners to keep up Lighted Boat Parade is at 6 p.m. at with the plans for Harbor Island degrees. That’s summertime for our Start Waves Resort on Friday, December visiting Winter Texan friends who which change on a regular basis. But 29 when Todd Dorn and the Sea keeping up with the myriad of projects have begun arriving for the holiday Drifters play a free concert. The according to the Moon Winter Texan there is often a confusing undertaking Marines will be on hand to collect due to the complexity of the subject Thermometer. The MWTT is a highly for Toys for Tots. Then the official scientific instrument developed and the sheer scope of many of the kickoff party is Tuesday, December 3 projects. There is currently a total over many years of trial and error also at Waves Resort. through Branch and Bound Method of about $60 billion in new facilities and consists solely of counting the This year for the first time the Friday beginning with the $2 billion TPCO number of out of town beltsanders at night parade will start at the JFK rolled pipe operation near Gregory the Saturday Beltsander Races at the Bridge and pass by Doc’s Seafood and including several developments Finished Gaff in Port A. & Steaks, Snoopy’s Pier and Marker approved and funded but still in the 37 before winding into the north planning stages. end of the Island canal system. For But for our purposes we will the second year the parade will be concentrate on development around aired live by KIII Television with the Harbor Island, across the Corpus broadcast anchored from the Padre Christi Ship Channel from Port Island Yacht Club by Islander and Aransas. Beginning this issue we will KIII anchor Joe Gazin. We included review each of the projects planned the parade routes and complete La Posada parade route map there with the purpose of providing a information in this issue. comprehensive look at all the projects on the drawing board. We have not and will not take a position on the You can sure tell the Winter From Andrea to Nester We Hardly Knew Ye viability nor the advisability of any Texans are showing up by the of the projects. Our sole purpose is number of belt sanders racing Hurricane Season 2019 ends Saturday to provide information in as unbiased last Saturday at the Gaff. a manner as possible. Since dredging Photo by Ronnie Narmour It came in with a whimper and left The 2019 storms listed in waters, and weak vertical wind shear is the first of the four we will begin with…a whimper. alphabetical order: Andrea, Barry, across the western Atlantic and Gulf with it. Chantal, Dorian, Erin, Fernand, of Mexico.” For Winter Texans in search of Hurricane Season 2019 comes to a By Dale Rankin Gabrielle, Humberto, Imelda, Jerry, a night on the town (or a female quite close on Saturday, November Karen, Lorenzo, Melissa, Nestor. Hurricane response by the When you think of the current ship companion who can drive at night) 30 with eighteen named storms, six the apex of the Winter Texan weekly numbers channel leading from the Port of hurricanes, and three major storms. The three major hurricanes this Corpus Christi, along the north shore calendar is Wednesday night at The pre-season prognostications season were Dorian, Humberto An average season has 12 named Bernie’s Beach House in Port A of Corpus Christi Bay and into the called for ten to seven named storms and Lorenzo. Hurricane Dorian storms, six hurricanes, and three Gulf of Mexico where ships awaiting where the Port A Rockers hold court with five to nine hurricanes and two is tied with three other hurricanes major hurricanes. until way past 8:30. On Thursday the transit are staged think of it as a single to four major storms. — the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, During the 2019 season, NOAA’s lane highway. Ships cannot pass in Free Beer Band plays at Giggity’s 1988’s Hurricane Gilbert and 2005’s The National Oceanic and hurricane hunter aircraft and crews it and barges cannot enter it when a and admission is free. Things start Hurricane Wilma — as the second Atmospheric Administration this flew 57 missions over 430 hours, ship is in transit through the channel off with the all-you-can eat shrimp strongest hurricane on record in week said this week said the season which along with the 53rd Weather in either direction. At any given time at Kody’s then move on to the live the Atlantic basin in terms of wind marks the fourth above average Reconnaissance Squadron of the Air more than a dozen ships can usually music. Between the dinner specials, (185 mph). In all, four storms made season in a row with regards to the Force Reserve, provided critical data be seen waiting offshore for clearance free live music, and beltsander races landfall in the U.S. during the 2019 amount of activity in the Atlantic that aided in storm forecasting and to enter the channel headed for the we’ve got our Winter Texans covered. season: Barry, Dorian, Imelda and hurricane season. The only other research. port downtown. Nestor. Turkey bowling at the Back period on record that produced four In addition, NOAA’s King Air As it was explained to the Port Porch consecutive above-normal seasons Gerry Bell, Ph.D., lead seasonal crew collected more than 26,939 Commission in a recent meeting was 1998-2001. Also this year, five hurricane forecaster at NOAA’s Since anyone can remember the aerial images covering more than currently ships anchored offshore to tropical cyclones formed in the Gulf Climate Prediction Center, said Sunday after Thanksgiving means 4,300 square miles of areas affected enter the port must wait until ships of Mexico, which ties a record with “The above-normal activity is only one thing around here and that by Hurricane Dorian, including exiting the channel reach the Gulf of 2003 and 1957 for the most storms consistent with the ongoing high- is Turkey Bowling at the Back Porch! shoreline, ports and impacted inland Mexico and ships waiting to exit must to form in that region. Of those, three activity era, driven largely by the You haven’t carved out the full Island areas of several Bahamian Islands to do the same for entering ships. It is — Barry, Imelda and Nestor — made Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, experience until you top off your aid in emergency response. a one-way street that no vessel can landfall in the U.S. which entered a warm phase in Thanksgiving weekend by watching enter while another oncoming vessel 1995. Conditions that favored more, NOAA and NOAA-supported a crowd of adults and a few kids hurl None of the storms in Hurricane is in the waterway. This is the reason stronger, and longer-lasting storms researchers from the U.S. and a frozen turkey at bowling pins at the Season 2019 were a direct threat to for the large number of ships now this year included a stronger West Caribbean deployed 30 autonomous venerable Port A establishment. The the Coastal Bend. waiting offshore at a cost, according African monsoon, warmer Atlantic Turkey Bowl marks the last day of the Hurricanes cont. on A4 Harbor cont. on A4 season at the outdoor venue before it closes for the winter season and the unofficial end of the Island tourist A little Island history season as the local males begin to look for indoor winter quarters and It Wasn’t Called Thanksgiving but History of the La Posada local females ask but two questions of the males they meet; “do you own the Shipwrecked Spaniards Had a a car, and do you live in it?” Lighted Boat Parade Sea Pines Secession lot to be Thankful for in 1534 By Dale Rankin In the beginning the boats set out from the canal across the street The La Posada Lighted Boat Parades Word came from the Padre Isles from the entrance to Padre Isles By Dale Rankin Queen Anne, we have today began an informal Property Owners Association this Country Club and eventually then the gathering of a few Islanders in the week that the Sea Pines subdivision It wasn’t an official Thanksgiving moved the muster point to the canal failure of the early 1970s when Island houses were has filed documents with the Nueces as there was no such thing yet. It behind Anchor Resort where the Gunpowder rare. The informal “parade” started County Clerk’s Office to terminate was November, 1534 and four Padre Island Yacht Club had set up Plot in 1605. at the Club House at Anchor Resort their protective covenants which is shipwrecked Spanish wanderers shop. which was the original home of the the next step in removing themselves making their way across the These were Padre Island Sailing Society by a Then in August 1996, the doors to from the PIPOA.

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