Hurricane Alex Report

While we were shooing moose out of our campsite in Haines, Alaska, the folks at Sandpipers were getting battered by rain from Hurricane Alex.

I was glad to receive pictures of the flooding...the first four are from Bill & Annie. Here is a report and more pictures from Lanny & Donna.

Well YEE HAW!

We were blessed.

Happy to say the storm was as advertised: Came ashore about 125 miles south of us in Mexico as a (barely) cat 2, so we had outer rain bands with intermittent breaks & nominal winds.

As a former motorcyclist & water skier I would estimate max gusts at 60 or so.

Rain totals here in the park yesterday & last night was 7 ½ inches.

Official wind speed for McAllen was 50 sustained.

Glad to say no property damage to report;

all fencing, skirting, awnings, shingles & trees are accounted for.

The field of course, is once again LAKE SANDPIPERS,

approx ¾ to 7/8 of it with some degree of standing water.

The County is not releasing water from Edinburg Lake, so Jay & Karen are smiling.

The standing water is going down noticeably from this morning already.

Hugs, Lanny & Donna