Originally Posted by
Alan Rutherford
I'd have to agree with you, Chuck, even though I'm the one who brought it up first. It's truly miserable when the temperature and humidity are both over 80, but heat index only applies to humans. Cars, roads, houses and workshops are 20 degrees cooler at 85 compared to 105, no matter what the humidity is. "Wind chill" is another one. It applies to exposed skin. Most people have the sense to cover up when it's cold.
Galveston got truly hammered over 100 years ago and deserves to get off easier this time, although it looks bad farther South. We "survived" Hermine last year when the center of the eye passed about 15 miles from our house. It was the first hurricane to make landfall in Florida in 11 years and except for the fact that some lives lost and not all the damage was minor, we could laugh at it. Harvey is not one to laugh at.