The storm wants to have a word w someone.

Hope it bypasses you Lucille.

You are exactly the person I thought of when I heard the direction it was headed. I hope all it does is cool things down and keep you from drought. Still thinking of you.

It has been a devastating storm. I hope you and others are spared any harm.

Hurricanes like this are scary.

My mother is within 7 miles of the currently-predicted path. I'm within 30 miles on the bad side and a sister is 45-ish miles.

HUGS dadoes. All the way 'round.

Yikes - just saw the NWS' GOES image and it looks like it's taking up the entire TX coast ☹️

The path has been on an eastward trend. The 10am revision has it passing a smidgen east. May shift further before arrival. Highly unlikely my house would flood. My concern is wind, and debris blowing from the older residential area toward the south. Lots of tchotchkes in the yards, a couple trampolines, general junk.

Latest path update took a jump eastward.

Landfall. Lotta wind here. Power is on but there was a blink I missed while asleep, microwave clock is flashing. Quote from sister nearer the landfall area "Hear noises not so good outside but can't see anything." Her power is out "for a while now."

I'm thinking of Raven. Anyone know if she is alright?

I heard that 1 million have now lost power. We have family living in The Woodlands (just NW of Houston) and it looks like what's left of the eye wall may pass right over them. The Woodlands Is known for it's tall and numerous trees so things seem dire, several hours yet to go before the calm after the storm. Good luck to posters in the path.

Hope everyone is safe!

Thinking of all KT in the path.

We'll get rain and winds tomorrow night/Wednesday morning, but hopefully, not tornadoes. that'll be our biggest possible issues.

It seems insane the power companies haven't buried their cables...that the power can go out. Trees going down is very frightening!!

So far we are without power and have at least ten trees down.

Beryl took ~7 hrs passing through my area. leading outer bands to exit. Power was out from 4:40a to 12:13p. Electric cooperative crew on the job! Several windows on the blow-rain side of the house were leaking. My immediate neighbor has roof damage and a mangled tree. Cell voice and text remain erratic and cell data non-functional but cable Internet is good after the power restore.

Cousin in Huffman has trees all torn up in her neighborhood! No electric either!

Power still out in town (not serviced by the county electric cooperative). Traffic lights not operating. Much tree damage and debris. The small residential area through which I drove, a few fallen on houses and a car blocked by one.

Do you guys have running water? I hope people in the storm zone have enough food, water, and prepared with generators. Stay inside and be safe.

Our relatives just NW of Houston (Montgomery Co) lost power about 24 hours ago, no generator so their deep freezer will lose food and no AC for them to manage the ongoing heat wave. Misery index is off the chart for everyone without AC and there's no telling when the power will return, most likely several days for many.

I'm a mile outside city limits, on a well so I have water since the power restore yesterday. I also fill the two jacuzzi bathtubs before an expected weather-outage event. The electric coop still has 47.5% out this morning. Estimate for AEP in town is two more days. Sister in a different AEP area heard that cell service outages are a source of delays due to inability of repair crews to communicate and functioning of other electronic/wireless devices.

Misery. Lost power, but have it back now. Debris everywhere. Pretty rough going for what they said was only a cat 1. My prayers for any of y'all that do not yet have electric/AC yet because of the Texas heat.

I'm sorry, Lucille, glad you are okay, though.

On another unimportant note, why is the news media pronouncing this hurricane weirdly? Or am I wrong. They're pronouncing it "barrel", I think it should be "burl". Am I wrong? I find it weird that when I'm watching youtube videos or news reports, commonly pronounced places are also pronounced so weirdly. Sometimes I can't even finish watching a video because of it.

^^^ To add insult to injury some pundits are making supposedly cute comments like "Beryl barreled across Texas".

Kath, i have friends who named their daughter Beryl (she is now in her late 20’s). They pronounce it beh-rill. No particular acent on either syllable. Pretty much just like it looks.

And not like barrel or burl at all, even with a southern accent.

I had two aunts from the UK who were named Beryl. They pronounced it to rhyme with ”peril”.

Not sure about the hurricane.

OP, I'm not sure with your phonetic spelling. Are you saying this daughter's name is pronounced like bay-rill?

If pronounced like Meryl Streep's, with a B would be like barrel. Rhyming with peril.

eta more Googling 🙂

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/aboutnames_pronounce_atlc.pdf

I had a fiance whose mother's name was Beryl. She was a twin, and her name was Pearl. Their name's rhymed.

A wonderful singer of yesteryear had such a name but it was spelled to make the pronounciation clear - Burl Ives. Unless someone gets confused to think it could be Boo ril.

The brief snippet at 17 seconds in the video above isa a video I've seen on Youtube that's pretty funny. As if an inner city teacher showed up in a white suburban neighborhood and struggles with easy names. This one is Aaron that he tries to say is Ay Ay ron.

Someone I know encountered a female when doing volunteer work in an inner city location.

The name was La-A. Any guesses? (Maybe it's not unusual).

Mindful of not trying to create unavoidable difficulties, we were careful in naming our kids to choose names we 1) liked, 2) that could be easily pronounced aloud when read and 3) didn't contribute to awkward initials. I know someone whose last name is Peters whose first and middle initials are J and A. When monogrammed dress shirts were in style, he realized he had a problem.

Glad to hear some of you had power back. Maybe get a portable generator, be prepared for the next storm.

Tornado watch here. Hopefully we'll be okay. Our turn!

Chicago and south suburbs are getting some rain and wind from Beryl tonight and tomorrow morning. (Beryl is Peril with a B for me.)

Elmer, no no, not ’bay’. Her name is pronounced as roxsol’s friend’s name…rhymes with peril. I was trying to emphasize the ’eh’ sound rather than the ’barrel’ or ’burl’ pronunciations referenced in a previous post. Should have thought of ’peril’.

Doesn't peril rhyme with barrel too?

Inappropriate personal comment that can be deleted by the author as often the case or by the mods later.

YOUR comment above about your fiance's family concerned what?

Cheryl, Meryl, Beryl.

>> If pronounced like Meryl Streep's, with a B would be like barrel. Rhyming with peril.

Meryl and peril do not rhyme with barrel. It would have to be spelled "berril" for that.

Can't imagine how Beryl could be pronounced Burl. That's ignoring the 'y'.

Haven't heard about Raven. Anyone know?

Daughter in Katy, Tx, west of Houston had 2 wood fence panels blown down. No flooding, but no electricity since Sunday nite. She had gotten a generator before storm and fussed and cussed it, until she got it all figured out. Then yesterday she insisted a neighborhood friend get one. Also a single lady, who has elderly mom living with her. She had lived in Katy for years with no generator because she didn't think she could figure it out and thought it was dangerous. Daughter took her to buy a generator and together they got it set up and going. Daughter says women need to help women.

Our favorite Galveston is not faring so well. Declared a disaster, mostly from flooding and no electricity. When hurricane season is over, we will be back to support businesses. We have found the people of Galveston are so nice.

My heart aches for the people in Texas. A close colleague's kid just got a job outside Houston not that long ago and now finds themselves on day 2 of no power, no ac, and triple digits heat with no good way to cool off. The yard is flooded, trees are down everywhere, it's a wicked ugly hot mess.

I hope there are enough generators for people are in need.

Galveston was hit hard a few years ago, had it recovered?

I lived on the coast during Hurricane Harvey, which was a nightmare for many people. Now I live in East Texas.

I went out to feed the horses in a light rain, but before I could get back in, the rain picked up and I hoped it would slack for a little bit, and I could go back inside, but it didn't, for about 6 hours, and I stayed in the barn.

My barn flooded....at least on one side. There is a row of extremely tall, 50 yr old pines, planted by the former owner, that are now about 4' apart, and less than 6' from the side of the barn, and I think that is what causes the water to back up in heavy rains. It is a large barn, 108' long. My horses were in the barn, but after they finished eating, and the wind picked up, so many pine cones pelting the barn, I think the noise caused them to leave, except one horse was stalled and I moved her to a different stall, because hers flooded.

The power was off about 30 hours here. I was very concerned about the food in my freezers, but I did not open them, and when the power came back on, and I checked, everything was still frozen.

I have a lot of limbs down....some very large....as big as small trees. And tho I didn't notice it until the next day, I.lost a very large oak tree. I thought it might have blown over from the saturated ground, which happens sometimes, but it split the trunk near the ground, and fell over. The inside core of the tree was rotten. I knew it had a place on the side where the bark was off....from some old injury long ago, but it was a beautiful tree with a huge canopy, and didn't appear to be unhealthy at all. It fell on a pasture fence, but until I decide what to do with it, it blocks the part of the fence that it took down.

Some in other parts of my county, still without electricity. I feel fortunate that it wasn't any worse for me. I didn't expect so much damage from the storm, but so many trees here, and many, many felled by the storm.

I hope things get restored back to normal as quickly as possible for those affected by the storm.

As for the name, I think I will continue trust the people who actually have the name with the correct pronunciation. It's a no brainer. The Beryls I have known pronounce it rhyming with pearl, just like rob333 (zone 7b) explained, but there is always that someone who has to come in to create disharmony.

Why such a tsimmis? I have actually asked people how they say their name if it is unusual. But even if I did not ask, and inadvertently mispronounced, if I was corrected I would immediately say it the way the person wishes. After all, that is the basis of good manners, to make others comfortable. And of course the hurricane doesn't care.

Marilyn,

I'm well pleased you did better in this storm than that hurricane. I remember that one for you, and it was very difficult.

We had lots of limbs down, but it was more like this one just wisped past us. I hope others in the will check in.

I'm always amazed at the power of hurricanes. The remnants came up north, spawning tornadoes in NY state and Barre VT is flooded out again, one year almost to the day from the massive flooding last year.