ROCKPORT, Texas – As Tropical Storm Beryl inches closer to the Texas Gulf Coast, many aren’t willing to roll the dice when it comes to what kind of wind and storm surge the tropical system will bring.
In Corpus Christi, the forecast of Beryl has many RV campers cutting their holiday weekend short.
“We’re getting out for sure,” said Manu Ardelean of San Antonio. “I get out bro, I get out. I’m that guy.”
Ardelean, his friend and another family member are all hooking up their RVs and hitting the road to higher and drier ground.
They’re among the many heading warnings of Tropical Storm Beryl strengthening into a hurricane before slamming into the Texas Gulf Coast.
“No, I mean, at all. No,” said Ardelean. “We don’t want to try that. I have three small kids.”
Meanwhile, just up the coast in Rockport, many homes can be seen boarded up with plywood and hurricane shutters.
“We’re just boarding up before the big one comes,” Thano Drimalas said.
He spent Saturday afternoon screwing pieces of plywood over his windows.
Drimalas recalls what Hurricane Harvey did to Rockport back in 2017. It’s a memory fresh for many that call this part of the Texas coast home.
“This place is still recovering from Harvey, is still a lot of slabs that are missing from Harvey still,” he said.