'It is really scary just - I don't know. You cannot sleep at night thinking what will happen next and this kind of stuff,' one Seabrook business owner told ABC13. Five of the owner's businesses were destroyed by Hurricane Ike.
Saturday, July 6, 2024 2:51AMAs Tropical Storm Beryl barrels toward the Texas coast, businesses up and down Galveston Bay are worried about storm surges from whatever comes to the Houston area.
"If we have a high tide and then the high wind and then the storm blows the water up, so it could get knee-deep, waist-deep," owner Robert Jakubas said. "We wash it out," he said. "We could be open in four hours after a storm surge. So we're ready for it. We've been through plenty of them."Five of their businesses were destroyed by Hurricane Ike, and now they just have the Pier 8 restaurant and home healthcare business. There, they've already begun piling up crates of important documents on top of desks in preparation for Beryl.
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