"Almost" hurricanes often have terrible complexes and attitudes. Hermine was no different. Try as He did he never quite made it to hurricane status. That calls for 74 MPH winds. He could only muster them in the high sixties. It angered him so he began knocking out power in the Valley. When he finished there, several thousand were without electricity.
Next, Hermine targeted an inland route as he swept up through South Texas. The "eye" went over Alice. Trees fell and power went out on up to Beeville and beyond. He wasn't through. He aimed at the larger cities, even to the Fort Worth area. He left in his wake small storms that have "popped up" all day in various locations. Water is high in the bays and lowland spots.
It doesn't pay to take a tropical storm lightly. They are like a snake: When you think they are going to crawl away they can coil and strike.
They remind me of another serpent of note. He crawled into a garden one day, looking for all purposes like a house pet. Wrong! This creature struck out at the folks living there, and the results are still causing storms around the world. Tropical storms AND snakes simply can't be trusted. They will strike when you least expect it.
