Hurricane Isaac impact on Tampa

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65. Once it hits those warm open gulf waters

it will be easier to see where the eye will end up.

Thank-you for your updates! My grandparents lived in Galveston (I grew up in Louisiana) and me and my sister always spent summers down there. I remember Hurricane Cecila skirting past Galveston and slamming Corpus Christi with 125+ winds. We were lucky it didn't directly hit Galveston. I was 9 and excited--not realizing the danger we were in at the time. My grandparents held their fear from us. I remember my grandfather taking us out to the seawall way before it hit and the outterbands were causing water to splash up over the seawall a little. (my mother would have had a heart attack if she had known this at the time!) It was exciting, however I'm sure that would have changed if we would have taken the full brunt of Cecila's wrath.

That storm was projected to hit Galveston, but turned at the last minute. That was 1970 so predicting landfall is more accurate these days.(or so we think!) My grandmother used her big seaman's map and the radio to keep track of it. My grandfather preferred the T.V....lol. Those were the good old days...