This picture shows the type of decay that we sometimes experience in our foundation piers. This post under the corner of 301 was augmented with several new posts last week as can be seen on the right of the rotted one. In the mid 1990s we won a lawsuit concerning the issue of the foundation posts not being sufficiently treated when the buildings were put up. The piers that were found to be rotted were replaced with concrete posts. I have always advocated for a program to periodically check the remaining posts so that they can be replaced before they deteriorate to the condition of the one in this photo. Generally they rot from the inside out and early detection depends on drilling a hole into the post to check the core.
Last Sunday someone used bolt cutters to cut the steel cable that HEB had installed between the posts at the boundary of their beach front. This has happened several times in the past. I think this is so juvenile, but I guess at least one of our owners believes we should have unabated access to the HEB beach.
Oyster Fest begins its 30 rendition this coming Thursday.
The high winds this weekend drove the water out of the bay and the tide is about as low as it has been all winter.
A number of guests fished off the pier and off the bulkhead this weekend. There were no reports of anyone catching a keeper anything.