Last time I looked a few hours it looked to be east of Houston but close enough to get a lot of rain. But it looked like Beaumont is going to get pounded. 3 years ago Port Arthur which is in the same county as Beaumont got hit harder than anyone. by HH. Jefferson county has been hit hard economically the last 30 years they don't deserve this. Most people don't know what a great musical culture and history Beaumont has. And they got all those crazy Cajuns as well.
I was born and raised in San Antonio but I've always liked Beaumont. Some years ago my first wife and I went to the annual blueberry festival there held on the last weekend of May and we had a grand time. The first oil to be discovered in Texas was at Spindletop in Beaumont. And who knows maybe Friday night lights could have been a good story if the setting was Beaumont. And there the high school fb was better, a lot better, than Midland-Odessa at one time there was remarkable number of NFL players from Jefferson county. And who here remembers the Texas Golden Triangle Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange?
Sadly Beaumont's best days are probably behind them. A lot of jobs were lost when the oil industry collapsed there. The unemployment is high and the murder rate is the 2nd worst in Texas.
Sad really.
