County dodges Beryl’s bullet

The 2024 Hurricane Season began on June 1 with Beryl as the first storm in the Atlantic tagged by some storm chasers as a “devil” because it is a “weirdly resilient” kind of storm, storm chaser Josh Morgerman said.

The powerful Category 1 hurricane roared ashore Matagorda as a powerful Category 1 hurricane early Monday morning and pummeled the region with wind gusts higher than 90 mph, a life-threa…