Windy City!

Technically, Chicago is called the Windy City, I believe, but Corpus Christi is also known as the Windy City. Yesterday, she proved herself to be the Windy City!  All day long, wind was howling, and I could hear things blowing around all over the place.  

On my way home from work, several fences were blown over in the neighborhood where I work. 

Grass fires, home fires, and fires at refineries broke out! Power outages throughout all of south texas.  According to KRIS 6 News' Facebook page, almost 7,000 people lost power. 

Nueces: 3,095
Kleberg: 1,484
Refugio: 1,159
San Patricio: 584
Jim Wells: 540
Bee: 220
Brooks: 205
Duval: 143

Our power went out several times, but just for a minute or two at a time.  The power at the church, however, kept going off, so Stephen got to come home from work a couple hours early.  Lucky boy. :) 

My cousin, Megan, who lives in the building next to ours took this picture from the front yard... She said the wind was blowing the trampoline around like it was nothing!

So how fast was the wind blowing?  According to the National Weather Service: 

CORPUS CHRISTI INT'L 63 MPH

ALICE                            63 MPH

KINGSVILE NAS 56 MPH

ORANGE GROVE                     59 MPH
MCMULLEN CO TARGET FIELD         56 MPH

WALDRON FIELD 55 MPH

ROBSTOWN                         55 MPH
BEEVILLE                         55 MPH
COTULLA                          54 MPH

MCCAMPBELL-INGLESIDE 53 MPH

CORPUS CHRISTI NAS               54 MPH
GOLIAD                           54 MPH
GEORGE WEST                      53 MPH
PORT ARANSAS                     51 MPH


LAREDO                           49 MPH
VICTORIA                         49 MPH
ROCKPORT                         47 MPH


PORT LAVACA                      45 MPH

It was seriously some crazy windy weather!