Hermine is Here

On Sunday, Jean and Jenna came over to the house for a BBQ. The weather was very cooperative and we were able to go swimming and eat outside without sweltering too much. While watching tv later that evening, I was surprised to learn that a tropical depression was brewing offshore just south of Brownsville, Texas. Although the area of rain and wind was situated in the warm, hurricane-prone waters of the Gulf, it was close enough to land to assure that it did not have time to develop into anything too strong before going ashore in Mexico. The system became Tropical Storm Hermine and the outer bands of precipitation reached Houston on Monday. It rained in the morning. It rained in the afternoon. It rained at night. We didn't experience any terribly high winds, but it was blustery enough to delay Adam's flight out of IAH for about an hour. Luckily, our house is about 400 miles northeast of where Hermine's eye made landfall Monday evening, so we did not endure any real tropical storm conditions. Hopefully, this trend will continue for the rest of hurricane season.