Freeport Hurricane

[Jim Eshelman]

August 14, 1932, 12:00 AM, just east of Freeport, TX

Category 4 with sustained winds of about 150 mph when it made landfall in Freeport, TX. About 10" of rain fell. Power outages in Galveston and San Antonio.

One written contemporary report, after mentioning a pre-landfall wind event around 11 PM, said that, "During the night of the 13th, the enter crossed the coast line near and slightly to the east of Freeport," narrowing the time to sometime between midnight and sunrise on the 14th. An eye-witness report on YouTube (a contemporary video of a woman who went through the hurricane in Angleton, TX, just inland from Freeport; she was 13 at the time) said that "about midnight" the "windows blew out" followed soon after by a lull - evidently the point the eye passed across. Therefore, I think 12:00 AM is the best estimate of the time of landfall.

40 deaths, $7.5 million in damages (mostly to crops).

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Uranus.

Year/Quarter: Cansolar {0}
Mercury on EP 1°12'
Jupiter sq. MC 1°34'
Neptune widely foreground

Bridge {+3}
t Uranus conj. CapQ Moon +0°21'
t Pluto sq. CapQ Moon -0°26'
t Mars op. Cansolar Moon 0°45'

Month: Caplunar (Dormant.) Moon-Uranus Moon-Pluto.

Week: Liblunar {+2}
Saturn on IC 1°53'
Moon on Asc 2°39'
Uranus on Dsc 3°37'
Pluto widely foreground
-- Moon-Uranus op. 0°27'
-- Uranus-Pluto sq. 1°01'
-- Moon-Pluto sq. 1°28'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian {+2}
t Uranus conj. p Moon +0°21'
t Pluto sq. p Moon -0°26'
-- Mo = Ur/Pl 0°03'
p EP conj. s Uranus 0°45', s Moon 0°20'
-- s Moon-Uranus conj. 0°27'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+1}
t Venus op. p Moon 0°12'
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t Mars op. s Moon 0°45'
t Sun conj. s EP 0°16'
t Mercury conj. s Asc 1°13'