Inside the Moon Island Beauty A2 Business Briefs A3 Birds A9 The Flying Towns A9 Three Chords and the Truth A16 Issue 851 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 August 6, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The Island on the move… By the numbers Island By Dale Rankin Island Projects Moving Forward How The We got through the week without a hurricane and that makes one in a Several projects on Padre Island are making progress. Island Voted row. We’re on a roll everybody! Final Totals for The National Weather Service this week released their report on July 14 Run-off Hurricane Hanna. Maximum wind gusts reported at Naval Air Station Races Corpus Christi were 115 miles per hour with maximum sustained winds Padre Island at 110 at 6:56 p.m. on Saturday and surprisingly the weather station on Democrats Laguna Shores Road in Flour Bluff United States Senator reported peak gusts of 130 miles per hour. The heaviest rainfall was 210 (81%) Mary “MJ” Hegar reported in Riviera around Baffin Bay 51 (19%) Royce West in Kleberg County at 4.56 inches. Texas Railroad Commissioner Aside from some missing sand dunes and all the sand piled up along 42 (29%) Roberto “R. (Beto) the seawall the most lasting legacy of Alonzo Hurricane Hanna is the Music of the 180 (71%) Chrysta Castaneda Spheres it left behind in the form of the mosquito’s buzz. Islanders have Port Aransas been adding some new swatting and Democrats slapping steps to the Mosquito Dance in the Key of D as we bleed our way United States Senator through the week. A front end loader gets a beach bath as city crews continue to work along the Michael J. Ellis Seawall. Crews have 101 (82%) Mary “MJ” Hegar already removed more than three feet of sand left piled up on the seawall by Hurricane Hanna. They are pushing the sand toward the water to widen the beach. Darren Gurley, the Superintendent of Beach Operations for the City 22 (18%) Royce West of Corpus Christi told Island Strategic Action Committee on Tuesday that once they finish widening the beach along Texas Railroad Commissioner the seawall they will move to the Newport Pass area north of Packery Channel where work on the new access road is complete. Work on the access road at Zahn Road is currently underway and expected to be complete in September. For 43 (36%) Roberto “R. (Beto) the first time in decades water briefly flowed through Newport Pass during the surge tide and heavy rainfall during Alonzo Hurricane Hanna which pushed four feet of water into Corpus Christi Bay. Hurricane Hannah washed away about 77 (64%) Chrysta Castaneda thirty feet of dunes in some place and city officials told ISAC members on Tuesday they plan to leave the beach marker signs in place. Prior to the storm they were largely covered by the encroaching dunes but will not be moved so they Source: Nueces County can be used as an historic benchmark for monitoring the dune line. See page A4 for more projects Clerk Records P.I.N.S. After Hanna Padre Island National Seashore remains closed due to damage from Hurricane Hanna. These photographs were taken on Friday, July 31 and some of the debris has since been cleaned up. Four File for Dance floor for the Island Mosquito Dance. Mayor’s race This mean little stretch of sidewalk Two file for Island along Windward has been the most The boat ramp at Bird Island Basin active dance floor for the Mosquito district seat The beach running south from remains closed pending a check for Dance Around The Island as The following candidates have filed Malaquite Beach is closed to the underwater debris. beachgoers schlep their way through for the races for the Corpus Christi public. Park officials say the eye of the grass slapping and swatting as City Council. All of the seats are up Hurricane Hanna crossed over the Looking north to Malaquite Beach they drag their ice chest seaward. The for re-election. The filing period for National Seashore between the 16 about fifty feet of beach was washed ban on beach vehicles has pushed a place on the ballot runs through and 25 Mile Markers. away. The area beyond the bollard pedestrians into only a handful of was the dune line before Hanna. Monday, August 17, 2020 at 5:00 beach access routes along the seawall p.m. at the parking lot and Beach Access Mayor Road 3A. This sidewalk is actually on private property but the mosquitoes Joe McComb Incumbent are shameless and ubiquitous Carolyn Vaughn Former City trespassers. Council member, currently Precinct Local professor makes Shark 1 Nueces County Commissioner Week The debris at the entrance to the Joe Michael who lists himself as beach access road at the north end Self-Employed Professor Dr. Dr. David Portnoy, of Malaquite Beach was overloaded Associate Professor of Life Sciences with debris which has since been Eric Rodriguez who works for Worldwinds Windsurfing at Bird at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi will removed. NAVFAC-Environmental Services be featured on Discovery Channel’s Island remains closed. Shark Week for his work on monster At-Large sharks believed to make their home A little Island history Candidates are elected by a plurality under the old Seven Mile Bridge in the vote – the three top vote-getters win. Florida Keys. Fishermen claim that one of the sharks is an 18-foot-long, Eleven Rules for a Pirate Ship Deanna Michelle Legal Assistant one-ton great hammerhead named Myron Grossman Realtor Big Mo. If true it would be the largest “A merry life and a short one, shall be my motto” Mike Pusley former Precinct 1 hammerhead on the planet. The truth Nueces County Commissioner about Big Mo that will be revealed Editor’s note: This week we take ships were open democracies with on “Monster Under the Bridge,” a whimsical sail into the Bounty the Captain in total charge only Mike Hunter Incumbent an hour-long documentary that airs Main of pirate ships which were while in battle. The crews decided District 4 (Padre Island, Flour on the Discovery Channel at 7 p.m. surprisingly egalitarian in their where to go, what to raid, and picked Bluff) on August 12. There is no word on structure. New crew members could their captains by popular vote. A This council district is a rarity in that whether sharks Larry and Curley are be sworn into the brotherhood by nominating speech for Roberts went it now includes parts of three counties sharking about. placing their hand in either a bible like this:: since the City of Corpus Christi or an ax – the yen and the yang of Around The Island “We are the original of this claim,” annexed land on the north side of the the pirate world- and every pirate With all the turmoil swirling around he said. “And should a captain be bay in San Patricio County. ship had a band. so saucy as to exceed prescription these days it’s a good time to take Greg Smith Incumbent a deep breath and look at our glass By Dale Rankin at any time, when down with him! It will be a caution after he is dead Dan Grimsbo Former city employee as half full. There are a lot of good Bartholomew Roberts set sail to his successors, of what fatal things quietly happening on our little from London in November 1719 District 1 no candidates have filed consequences any sort of assuming sandbar. In the Moon’s Things Never on the ship Princess. While taking may be. However, it is my advice, District 2 Ben Molina Incumbent Work That Way Around The Island on slaves in Guinea was himself that, while we are sober, we pitch Department after years of slugging taken prisoner by pirates on a ship District 3 Roland Barrera upon a man of courage, and skilled in it out through the permitting process captained by Howel Davis. He Incumbent navigation. 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