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I bet the waves are killer right now though. Damn I miss the Island. I wish I was there.
She's been upgraded to a Tropical Storm. Say o to Erin!
I bet the waves are killer right now though. Damn I miss the Island. I wish I was there.
First we about too much rain.
Now we about too much sun.
Regardless, this looks to be hitting somewhere in Willacy or Kennedy Counties, maybe northern Cameron County, as long as its north of Brownsville it wont do for damage save for a few cows.
Its probably going to be a mild tropical storm at best anyway. Big ing deal.
Yeah My family lives other there. They didn't seem alarmed. They are kind of used to it. I remember driving during one with Atrain. We were picking up signs that had blown away in the street.
Tell that to the TV weather people who insist on hyping the out of this and every other 'big storm'.
Yeah, I hate when they do that. Remember Houston two years ago. That was total chaos.
It's worse in the winter, especially if the temp look like it'll get close to freezing and there's moisture in the air.....they always have to say the "S" word when my kids are watching.
I used to be the bad guy that bum them out by telling the the weather people were full of it and it wouldnt snow here and you will have school. Now that there getting older, they're understanding what old dad was talking about.
Come up to Dallas, where not only do they over-hype everything, but they PREEMPT HOURS OF REGULAR PROGRAMMING to do it.
"There were snow flurries reported by a nearsighted thirteen-year old in Decatur .... let's go LIVE to our reporter Joe Blow, Joe, what's it like?"
"Well, Matt, it's colder than here but there's no sign of snow."
"Thanks, Joe, we'll come back to you. Next up, we have reports of a bridge up in NoNutz county that has begun to freeze over ..."
ahh dallas.
they are jackasses up there.
I had some friends get lost in Decatur last week while we were in Bridgeport for camp.
But as for Erin...it looked pretty gloomy earlier while I was out with my family.
Dear God
Please make The Weather Channel send Stephaine Abrams to report onsite in a tight t-shirt and then have it rain buckets on her while she's live.
Really really cold rain.....
Nice, who is that?Dear God
Please make The Weather Channel send Stephaine Abrams to report onsite in a tight t-shirt and then have it rain buckets on her while she's live.
Really really cold rain.....
dude, it's in the quote!
I dont know what
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thats funny
at 05:30 Thurs, already 6" between Corpus and Victoria.
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?r...101111&loop=no
click left menu "rainfall 1-hour and storm total"
August 16, 2007
Hurricane Dean Forms in the Atlantic
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 6:33 a.m. ET
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) -- Bands of rain from Tropical Storm Erin fell along Texas' coast early Thursday, while Hurricane Dean formed in the open Atlantic, becoming the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
Dean headed toward the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean and could close in on the islands by Friday, forecasters said.
In flood-weary southern Texas, some vacationers packed up while others vowed to wait out Erin and its torrential rainfall.
The storm was not expected to gain hurricane strength before making landfall Thursday morning, which was why some said they wouldn't abandon long-planned trips to Texas' coast.
''It's not a hurricane. I ain't worried. If they say don't evacuate, I'm not going to worry about it,'' said Matt Sandlin of Amarillo, who was on a beach near Corpus Christi with his family on Wednesday as the wind whipped up and the horizon darkened with clouds. ''Unless I see a shark or whale go flying by, I'm good.''
Gov. Rick Perry ordered emergency vehicles and personnel, including National Guard troops, to the Harlingen and Corpus Christi areas.
''Because storms have saturated much of our state this summer, many communities in this storm's projected path are at high risk of dangerous flash flooding,'' Perry said in a statement.
Early Thursday, the National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for six counties along the Texas coast near the anticipated landfall of the storm.
Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos, the top elected official for the state's southernmost county, urged residents to evacuate trailers and mobile homes on South Padre Island.
Corpus Christi hadn't asked for any evacuations, said Ted Nelson, a city spokesman, and was keeping only a handful of people at the emergency operations center overnight.
''We're just advising folks to review their own personal emergency plans and look around your yard and remove any loose items,'' he said.
Nelson said that with 3 1/2 months left in the Atlantic hurricane season, the incoming storm was ''a nice little wake-up call'' for people to make sure they are prepared for more severe weather.
Some weren't taking any chances.
''We came out to get as much beach time in as possible,'' said John Cullison of the Dallas area, who was vacationing with his family and planned to leave southern Texas Thursday instead of Friday. ''After the hurricanes from a few years ago, you have to take it kind of serious.''
Erin formed late Tuesday as the fifth depression of the Atlantic hurricane season and was upgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday when its maximum sustained speed hit 40 mph. The threshold for tropical storm status is 39 mph.
At 5 a.m. EDT, the storm was centered about 55 miles southeast of Corpus Christi and about 180 miles southwest of Galveston, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Its top wind speed remained at 40 mph.
Erin was moving toward the west-northwest at around 12 mph and was expected to continue following that track for at least 24 hours.
The storm was likely too close to land to gain enough wind speed to become a hurricane, which would require sustained winds of at least 74 mph, said National Weather Service forecaster Tony Abbott in Brownsville. But the center said late Wednesday it could strengthen slightly before landfall.
Isolated tornadoes were possible along the middle Texas Gulf Coast on Thursday, the center said.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said early Thursday they were beginning to see an eye form at Dean's center.
In the Caribbean, hurricane warnings were issued for the islands of Dominica and St. Lucia by their local governments as Hurricane Dean approached. Hurricane watches were in effect for the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe and its dependencies, Saba and St. Eustaties.
Weather service of Barbados issued tropical storm warning for Barbados, and tropical storm watch for St. Vincent and St. Maarten. A warning means conditions expected within 24 hours, a watch means 36 hours.
At 5 a.m. EDT, Dean was centered about 485 miles east of Barbados and about 590 miles east of Martinique, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was moving west near 24 mph, and was expected to continue the same path for the next 24 hours.
Maximum sustained winds were near 75 mph, above the threshold for a hurricane. Dean is a Category 1 hurricane and is expected to strengthen during the next 24 hours, forecasters said.
Out in the Gulf, S Oil Co. evacuated 188 people from offshore facilities in the path of Tropical Storm Erin.
A tropical storm warning was posted for the Texas coast from San Luis Pass, about 50 miles southwest of Houston, southward to Port Mansfield, while the warning was canceled for the tip of the southern Texas coast. A tropical storm warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected within 24 hours. A tropical storm watch for northern Mexico was canceled.
Three to 8 inches of rain was possible along the middle Texas coast, the hurricane center said, with a storm surge of up to 3 feet above normal tide levels north of where the center makes landfall.
The U.S. Census Bureau said Wednesday that 4 million people could feel the storm's effects.
A series of storms this summer poured record rainfall across Texas and parts of Oklahoma and Kansas, with one July storm dropping 17 inches of rain in 24 hours. Flooding was widespread across all three states. It brought Texas out of drought status for the first time in more than a decade.
At least 16 deaths have been blamed on flooding since mid-June.
In the Pacific, Flossie was downgraded from a tropical storm to a tropical depression, a day after sideswiping Hawaii's Big Island with only intermittent rain and moderate winds.
Hurricane specialists expect this year's Atlantic hurricane season -- June 1 to Nov. 30 --to be busier than average, with as many as 16 tropical storms, nine of them strengthening into hurricanes. Ten tropical storms developed in the Atlantic last year, but only two made landfall in the United States.
hahahah you would stay at home and wouldnt even go check...... P***Y
man that is coming straight for me here at work
Dean is bad. The way the upper air stuff is in place, Dean is bad. This isn't going to go north, its probably going to stay on the same path the entire way.
Kinda like Erin did when it was a tropical wave then finally a depression and storm. Still over a week away but chances are high this thing comes into the Gulf.
DAMN!! Better buy a boat!
Ya Dean is not going to be pretty, no matter where it hits.
Erin will be like a sneeze.
ˇEverybody Panic!
I read this headline over at FARK and laughed my ass off.
Hurricane Dean announces that its gonna gain strength, then it's going to the Gulf of Mexico, and then Texas, and then Georgia, and then Florida, and then all the way to the White House Yeeeeaaaaaaarrrgh
Roof just busted a leak right on my laptop. you, Erin.
I can't get the .png image to display, but this oughta get Manny's attention
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5-8 inches in parts of Bexar county in the past few hours. Thats a ton of rain.
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