Below the image are my comments at this hour... Which is dated...
At this hour, it looks like most of it is still over the Yucatan.
The image above is from a satellite that will track this storm.
I believe it is Atlantic Floater 1...
Posted on 07/27/2011 2:35:07 PM PDT by NautiNurse
HOpe they get LOTS of rain. Today I went to buy hot peppers to make pepper vinegar for gifts and couldn’t find many good habaneros etc. I asked the produce guy and he said the heat etc has caused bad crops. AKKK! If it’s making a bad pepper crop I’m bummed!
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Below the image are my comments at this hour... Which is dated...
At this hour, it looks like most of it is still over the Yucatan.
The image above is from a satellite that will track this storm.
I believe it is Atlantic Floater 1...
Yeah, they prolly would laugh at you for calling about Hurricane Henry. 2011 will be Harvey. If you can wait until 2015, there will be Henri. I think it is pronounced On-ree.
thanks for thread & for ping
How nice it would be for the draught laden folks to get a good soak & no damage.
We can dream a little, can’t we?
As s Floridian all best wishes for a real soaker in Texas.
Amen..Dear Lord let there be rain in Texas!
Like I’d said on the other (”TD FOUR has formed”) thread, we’re headed down to Texas for a vacation. And yes...we have relatives down there.
Right now, the plan is to drive from where we are (Seattle) to Cleveland, which isn’t that far from Conroe. My in-law’s place (where the kids have been the last month) is smack in the middle of the Sam Houston National Forest. The timeline puts us in Albuquerque just after midnight on Monday 8/1, with us reaching the NM/TX state line at around 6 in the morning. We were planning to meet with the in-laws and the kids in Huntsville (after driving all day) for dinner that night and then do the last hour to their place.
The thing that I fear is just what others have said...Don slowing down and intensifying like Alicia did. Driving a minivan in a possible hurricane is NOT something I made a contingency for. This is something I have NO experience with.
Trust me...I want y’all to get the rain. Lord knows you need it. I just don’t relish the idea of frightened kids and a possible ruined vacation.
(Maybe it’s God’s way of providing a check-off of an item on my bucket list...”Experience a hurricane in real-time”.)
Do you remember Dolly when it was blowing 9 to 90 and she was so thrilled she jumped in the pool?
Well, she's ramping up. That means to me that we could get hit in the snout by old Don. (Pardon the pun.)
(Ps. For all dog lovers - she's never been hit in the snout or anywhere else.)
RGVTx - I'm preparing like it's coming for us.
On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here--> 
We need it further north... sigh
Hope it grows into a larger storm.
” We need it further north... sigh “
WE need it to spend enough time out over the gulf to pick up a LOT of water, and grow to multi-state dimensions - so we don’t have to have fistfights over the “Southern Track/Northern Track” question.... ;)
I want to see a pic of the hurricane dog.
Looking at the SAT pics, it looks as if another storm is brewing right behind Don, still in the caribean. Your thoughts?
From Amazon: “The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.”—Elmer Kelton Rio Seco was too small to afford a professional manager for its one-room Chamber of Commerce. And Rio Seco, meaning “dry river” in Spanish, symbolizes the biggest enemy of the ranchers and farmers in 1950s Texas, an enemy they can’t control: drought. To cranky Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a battle that he must fight on his own grounds. Refusing the questionable “assistance” of federal aid programs and their bureaucratic regulations, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again—if it ever rains again. Charlie Flagg, among the strongest of Elmer Kelton’s memorable creations, is no pasteboard hero. He is courageous and self-sufficient but as real as his harsh and unforgiving West Texas home country. His battle with an unfathomable foe is the stuff of epics and legends.
Thanks for the pings, NN.
‘Tis the season.
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