Port Aransas July 2022 

Good morning Mr. Calvin. I hope you and Miss Blanca are having a good morning. Just watching the sun come up. A little bit of pink and here comes the heat. Hope you have a great day amigo.

Hope you're doing well tonight Eric. I appreciate you checking out the videos.

Good morning Ralph. Stop hogging all the rain buddy.

@@dennis78382 We're supposed to get rain this next week, but I've got projects to get done. So I'll just plan on sending it down to you Dennis 😁

We could use it.

Good morning Michael. Unfortunately it's the same at Rockport beach. Sometimes when I'm filming I have to adjust my camera angles are not show the trash.

It s true lest do

Thank you very much. I got a new microphone about two months ago and it seems to be working well. It does condense the sound a little bit but it is consistent and reliable

Absolutely amigo. So much easier when we all keep an eye on each other

TY for helping those that get a flat. I was 79 yrs old and made a tight turn into a road with only one narrow lane open due to construction. I turned into the sun and could not see that there was debris on my right side. Something punctured the sidewall of my right front tire and by 1/2 mile it started to feel mushy in steering. I luckily found a somewhat flat place to park quickly and began the difficult task of lowering the spare from under the 4x4 Tacoma's bed. I had just bought the truck and the users manual gave no idea of how to jack it up from the front. But two much younger men saw me and stopped in a heavy commercial van and using both our jacks we soon had the spare on and the flat tire and wheel in the bed.

@@dennis78382 I grew up in Western Corpus Christi. I fished Port A hard in the early 60's for tarpon & shark from late June to October. They had a good tarpon bite many mid to late summer days in mid-afternoon. And again in early fall when the schools returned to Mexico for winter. My personal best was a 6ft 8inch beauty from Horace Caldwell Pier, that weighed about as much as me. That was in 1961, the year of Hurricane Carla. Boy did Carla wreck that town. The mayor was in the Coast Guard Station, high up on steel reinforced concrete pilings, and he radioed a report to the weather bureau in C.C. TX. He said: The wind is 140 mph, the tide is up14 ft, the waves are 40 ft high, and brother it's rough. The storm was headed straight for them for days even though Dan Rather had gone on NBC Fake News and told everyone it would hit on Galveston. Rather was a Houstin area boy that grew up in Wharton. Carla got 65 miles straight out the jetties from Port A and stopped, then made a slow counter-clockwise circle over 18 hours and made landfall on Port O' Conner. None of this path exists on NOOA TODAY. Landfall was with gusts to 180 mph and a 23 ft tide at the new Hiway 35 causway between Port Lavaca and Point Comfort, which was wrecked. The barge repair business at Point Comfort neasured 175 mph winds. Houses in Port Lavaca were cleaned to the slab by tornadoic winds. Everything in Port O' Conner was severely damaged or destroyed.. Carla was huge, it came ashore in the middle of Texas' Coast, almost straight in, but it moved the mouth of the Rio Grande River 1/2 mile into Mexico. At about same time, it flooded Port Aurthor with 13 ft of tide and rain water. Carla was the worst storm in Texas's recorded history. I had a friend that grew up in Freeport. There was a picture in the local paper of a house floaring down Bastrop Bayou with a small boy on top, he was the soul survivor in his family, big local news. About 15 years later, he told me: A hurricane can't get worse than here in Carla. I told him the wind in Freeport was 120mph, and the tide was 18 ft. Carla hit 90 miles down South of you and had 5 ft more tide water and 60 mph more winds. And note: The force of the wind increases with the square of the velocity. So if you're going to report about boondocking in the Coastal Bend, pls keep in mind us old timers know what biindocking in the city was like. And my cousin's housband in Port A had an expierence surviving the 1919 storm, on a tall sand dune bedded down against the family cow! Now that was boondocking it! My father survived that one on a cotton farm at what is now Ocean Drive. The water came up over the high bluff and they had to let chickens out of their coop to keep them from drowning.

Good morning Larry. Thank you so much for the information sir. That's a lot of experiences. I hope you're having a great day and I really appreciate you checking out the videos.

Good morning Modery!

It is a very special place.

Yes ma'am. I have jugs of water, folding treads and a folding shovel. I also have a toe strap. I just got lucky that someone noticed that I got stuck and backed right up without even asking. Good people. He wouldn't even let me give us some money. We sure could use some rain friend

@@dennis78382 We are praying for rain! ;)

🙏⛈🙏

Thank you very much friend. I hope you have yourself a wonderful evening.

Howdy friend. Thank you so much. It's a beautiful day so far

Thank you very much friend

Good morning Miss Peggy. I'm looking forward to see the larger ones once the ship channel and bridge are built. They are absolutely massive.

Hello friend. I'm glad you got a little bit of rain. The lakes and ponds are drying up. I guess we don't notice it too much being right along the coast but a lot of grass is dying. Hopefully we'll get something on Monday. Watch yourself in this heat friend. We ain't no spring chickens.

Thank you, Brian

Thank you very much. I appreciate your kind words. I hope you get to go back soon.

Good morning friend. Drought. Lack of rain. Loose sand. Enjoy your adventure.

It's a great town with lots to do. I appreciate you checking out the video.

Good morning amigo. Thank you so much buddy. It was a good day. We certainly could use some rain. I would like to have access to the entire beach again. Hope you and your family are well and safe. I know New Mexico has lots of beaches only there they call him deserts. Mmmmm... deserts. 🧁🍩🍪🍰🎂🍭🍦

@@dennis78382 hahahaha😂 Endless beaches my friend! Lol lol😂

One day 🌧⛈🌧

That would be awesome. That way if it jumps in the pool or goes down to the creek we can scream its name. I hope you're well today sister.

Good morning Casey. I'm going to do you even better. I'm going to have an excellent Friday. We are off to a good start. Thanks for checking in buddy.

Thank you very much friend

Good morning Larry. That is an extremely dangerous job. My friends son is a pilot in Port Aransas

Good afternoon friend. I'm sitting in the shade, looking at the water and listening to Bruce Springsteen play acoustic. Good morning so far. Got Luciano some ice and met three different sets of people that watch my channel so far. Unfortunately I'm still broke and live in my truck. 😀 Floods in some part of the country and drops in the other. Very odd. I just watch some young man wiped out on his bike and he's up he's OK. Young kids doing dumb things. Was trying to do a trick on his bike and went off a 2 foot curb. Not very gracefully. I'm gonna go see if he's OK. Thank you friend. I hope you and the family had a wonderful day.

Hello Dennis..Happy day to you...coming to Rockport in Sept to find a place to live ..any suggestions?? Single retired no pets..looking for apt/house rental....n what's your favorite restaurant??..Ty for sharing the scenery n info..love the beach!!!

Lots of good restaurants here in town. All depends on what you're looking for. A guy living in his truck might not be the best person to ask about apartments or homes. 👍😀👍

@@dennis78382 Oh dear...I'm sorry to hear..I understand ..affordable housing is nowhere..I got 60 days n I'll b living In my car...we gotta keep together n help each other..!! GOD BLESS YOU..Let me know if I can help out. li da

@Linda Scudder I intentionally moved out of housing.

Thank you diligent friend!

Thank you Brian!

Thank you friend.

I am from the Philadelphia area. Last time I try to rain dance it just brought gunfire.

LOL have a good evening

OK then. Thanks for checking out the video.

Thank you Brian. Just focusing on getting my truck repaired and then things will be back to normal.

I also use that berry. Hope if you hit a bad spot momentum will carry you through. We need some rain!

Good morning Jamie. I think the people that set up where the jetty meets the Gulf know what's going on. You have the water rate bear if you wanna go for a dip. You can fish off the other side of the jetty. Great place to watch the ships come and go. You get a good amount of wildlife through there. Dogs. This place has everything.

Good afternoon Marilyn. Thank you friend. Guess who has off tomorrow?

@@dennis78382 ME

Woo Hoo!

I do love watching the big ships come through the channel.

Good afternoon amigo. If you'll Google that you can find 10 different answers. Apparently Noah got divine blueprint 🙏

1.1 Billion

Thank you very much. Rusty has been a very good friend. I appreciate you checking out the channel.

I agree Lisa. Cooler temperatures will be nice but I'm kind of getting used to it. The worst part is not finding a cool shady place in the afternoon just to take a nap. That would be my big complain about this lifestyle choice. I didn't win $1 billion last night. Disappointing. I would've been able to afford gas and done a little bit of traveling. 😀

I had such plans for my billion. I was going to share a ton of it, I’d think that would give me points with the man upstairs to win, but I guess he has bigger things to tackle than the lottery. 😂

@@LisaRichter92 Giving it away was my plan as well. Keeping enough to live on and hopefully changing a lot of peoples lives for the better.

You know once you pay taxes you're only going to have about 700 million left 😀❤️🙏

Which is crazy, but I think I could still manage! 😂

Glad you got free.

I don't think I've been in there in about three years Sharon. Maybe once in the last five. I don't think I'll be seeing anyone from Moby Dick's. Give them a call. I do appreciate you checking out the video.

I really appreciate that. Thank you Sarah

You're famous!

Good morning amigo.

Thank you for checking out the video.

Good morning Brian. Thank you so very much counselor. I always appreciate it when people take the time to watch the entire video and leave such kind comments. I hope your day is going well friend. Mid 70s here in south Texas.