Why Hurricane Alicia and Hurricane Ike stand out.
“I was on the air for the first time talking about Houston,” Billingsley recalls. Alicia hit the Texas coast near Galveston as a category 3 hurricane, causing significant damage in Galveston and the Houston area in August of 1983.
“And it was like, um, it’s going to Houston, and in 1989 I was going to Houston and I’ve been here ever since,” he told KPRC 2 colleague and Meteorologist Anthony Yanez.Yanez asked Frank about his memories of all the storms that have come through the area while he has been forecasting.“Well, you know, Ike was Ike and Bolivar was decimated,” Frank said. “Then they wouldn’t let us go to the west end of Galveston to see what was happening.
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