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We will be heavily impacted by Beryl, on the periphery of the forecast cone. From past experiences as a lifetime Gulf Coast resident, I can tell you power outage for days, perhaps a week is likely. I live 10 miles from my hoarder, personality disordered mother, 76. Just crossing my fingers it’s not as bad as I expect, and that she has no damage on her uninsured house, and no need for her to stay at mine.Any stay , if we had power and she didn’t for example, would be on a very temporary basis. The heat here is awful, her bp runs low, and dehydration would be a real danger for her. I won’t stay in hers. I do plan to check on her. I hate that she’s now on my problem list for hurricanes. Just another delightful part of my situation. What’s really annoying is we’ve just purchased a whole house generator, but the electrician is awaiting a few more parts and some permitting stuff. We just waited too late to decide and we are getting an unusual July storm.

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Oedgar23, why is your mother's house uninsured? She needs to know that any type of future damage to her house would cost much more than the insurance policy. Plus with climate change, we are going to have more intense storms in the future. Let's hope Beryl turns back into the Gulf.
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Oedgar23 Jul 6, 2024
She is living on only social security. When she walked back into my life Oct 2022, she was living on about $1500 a month and her finances were a mess. My father had passed in Jan of that year, so she filed for SS on his record and got a raise to $2100 a month plus some back pay. But she still would struggle to afford insurance. This makes me very nervous.
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Check with local authorities to see if you can take her to a shelter. Living on the coast you might know what the process is if her home is damaged while she’s at the shelter ( will they provide any type of shelter after the fact because she will require it to her mental health issues?)

if nothing else, she has a severe mental illness (2 actually) that could qualify her for a bed in a psychiatric facility.
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Oedgar, I understand what your saying, you are stressed enough about your own stuff, trying to get everything done and prepare for it all. Know you have to worry about your mental illness mom too.

I go through that on a much lesser scale during snowstorms. First your angry then your worried I get it

I have a son in Austin, not such a worry there but still a concern.

Take care of yourself, I'm thinking of y'all, hoping for everyone's safty.

Let us know how things are going, Best of luck.
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