Mayor: Port Aransas trailer park a '100-percent' loss, search and rescue starts

[jpak]

Source: kiiitv.com

PORT ARANSAS, Texas -- No one should consider returning or visiting Port Aransas until further notice given the amount of destruction in the area, the mayor said.The city's police chief told Mayor Charles Bujan the Pioneer Trailer Park, located at 120 Gulfwind Drive, is a "100-percent loss" and a search and rescue operation is underway this Saturday morning. Crews only are beginning to realize the extent of damage as they are just entering city limits.

There is an extensive amount of debris and utility poles down across roadways entering the city.

"We are in the process now of pushing down 361 ... We had to send heavy maintenance equipment in before the police to clear the highway," Bujan said.

While speaking with 3 News during a live interview, Bujan provided a number of fatalities. That information has not yet been verified, and 3 News cannot yet pass it along as fact.

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Read more: http://www.kiiitv.com/weather/hurricane/port-aransas-trailer-park-a-100-percent-loss-search-and-rescue-underway/467644031

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Pictures and video at link

8 fatalities in Aransas Pass, Rockport.

Still haven't searched Port A

[Not Ruth]

1. Those poor people

[herding cats]

2. My parents kept an RV there for years and years.

I saw the pics of the place earlier. It's completely wiped out. It had massive dunes before the park, but nothing could keep out a Cat 4.

[jpak]

4. I hope Shorty's survived.

[herding cats]

5. "The islands oldest and friendliest."

So do I, I've seen so much destruction there though. It looks really bad.

[jpak]

3. Coast Guard trying to rescue 3 tugboat crews near Port Aransas

http://www.fox4news.com/news/276300767-story

The Coast Guard has sent two helicopters to try to rescue the crews of three tugboats in distress near the Lydia Ann Channel near Port Aransas, Texas.

The Coast Guard at Corpus Christi says it received a mayday notification Saturday from crew members aboard the Belle Chase, Sandy Point and Sabine Pass.

Two MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrews have been sent to rescue the crews.

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[underpants]

6. Jimmy Johnson (NFL coach - Dallas) went to elementary school there with Janis Joplin

FYI

On edit - sorry misread It as Port Arthur.

[jpak]

10. I didn't know that

But I know that singer Marsha Ball has a pink trailer on stilts there.

[rocktivity]

7. Don't forget to cross post to the DU Texas group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1078


rocktivity

[oberliner]

8. The mayor provided a number of fatalities but the news channel can't report it?

i don't get that.

[jpak]

9. The Coroner's Office needs to verify this first.

n/t

[Javaman]

11. my coworker in my dept, she sit right next to me...

was down there last weekend for their last visit of the season.

she goes down there several times each summer with her family.

This will break their hearts, it's like their second home.

I am completely taken back at the level of destruction.

Those poor people.

[jpak]

12. I lived in the Hurricane/Dog houses there 25 years ago

If you worked there, there were 2 options for Port A living .

$1200 a week condos

or

a $200 a month Hurricane/Dog house - that were so small, you could fry your breakfast eggs with your feet while lying in bed.

The $200 a month Hurricane/Dog houses would float around town with each hurricane - and end up on a new property.

The new "recipient" would make an offer to the previous owner. If it was a better deal than paying to remove said Hurricane/Dog house from the new property, the new owners would buy it and rent them back to the previous tenants.

So it was in the old days of Port A.

[appal_jack]

13. Wow, that sounds awesome! nt

[raven mad]

14. Horrible.