From the editor: One of the most powerful storms to ever hit the U.S., 1967's Hurricane Beulah was nearly a direct Brownsville, S.P.I. hit, destroying most of what was then on the island, ripping off hundreds of roofs in Brownsville, with massive flooding and electricity off in town exactly a week and a day.
Beulah was a huge storm in actual size, more so than wind velocity, although allegedly breaking the anemometer at the Brownsville Airport at 161 M.P.H., killing 58, while spawning 115 tornadoes.
The storm traveled all the way across country to New England, reduced to a tropical storm, then once out at sea again, regathered itself into a hurricane.
The year before, 1966, I'd ordered a hurricane map and plotted the coordinates of Hurricane Inez, also taking aim squarely at our city, but, at the last instant, veering south to strike Tampico.
Hurricane Beryl seems to be taking that similar, familiar path, but high pressure pushing from the north usually determines the eventual landing spot.
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More Photos from Beulah 1967:
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Yep, it is coming this way. Time to start praying and keeping the hurricane away from destroying Brownsville. Irrigation canals are clean, people have discarded their bulky trash, and people are buying construction materials to fix their roofs. Get medications, pet food and water. Also fill the gas tanks....ahead of the big lines at the gas station.
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