Posted on 07/27/2011 2:35:07 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Tropical Storm Don has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. Current forecast track indicates Texas should receive much needed precipitation. Interests in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico should monitor the progress of Don.
He just started back out there again for the third time with a different company.
Thanks, GS. My kids have told us just that.
Hurricane Ike came through with the exact center of the storm track coming right over my in-law’s house. By that time, it’d lost a lot of it’s energy, but they still had to broken branches and a lot or rain.
I’ll just trust that God will keep us (and y’all) safe...but I’ll still keep a weather eye out.
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That should read “they still had to clean up a lot of broken branch and they got a lot of rain”.
Lack of Coffee + posting = mistakes.
My son is out there as pipe fitter foreman for LWL.JFS has become quite difficult to work for the kast few years. Thier hiring practices has made it hard for those that only speak english.
Thanks. I hope we get a real good drenching with no high winds or any damage.
We sure need it.
I remember hurricane dog jumping in the pool. What a party animal!
If we get hit I hope it doesn’t sit on us for hours like Dolly did. At least we have fewer trees for a hurricane to take down this time.
:o) LWL is who he’s with now. He started last week working cranes. He’s been with a couple of other places since JFS.
Well tell him I said Hi!
Fighting against our own limits is part of life's sweetness - Texans take to that naturally. Thanks for the book suggestion.
I hope you get some rain, lots of rain. We’ve had a sprinkle or two, but need some good rainstorms before wells start going dry.
My daughter lived near Houston for 30 years..Had to evacuate , had damage a few times..I was thrilled when she moved an hour s of Ft Worth. last year.She has had to evacuate because of a wildfire..Sigh
Praying for rain..and safety for all.
I am actually a traditionalist when it comes to giving hurricanes women’s names. It wasn’t broke - so they “fixed” it.
Typical nonsense.
But, as long as we’re down the rabbit hole - let’s see what Don can do.
I frequently drive I-10 to the east and downpours worse than typical hurricanes are common and just a part of driving I-10 ‘tween Houston and Jax.
Coming from the west is different but I don’t think anyone is expecting Don to give us what we really want in regards to rainfall.
Driving to Cleveland, eh? That place has quite a criminal population for as small as it is.
The graphic below is only valid for a few hours:
NOAA US Weather Map -- 96 Hour -- as of Noon CDT July 28, 2011
The link above will change with time...
Should we then call it Dawn?
We live on the coast between Houston and Galveston and have additional property in east TX. I’m originally from the Corpus Christi area so hurricanes have always been a fact of life for me. This year I added wildfires to my life experiences because of the drought. No matter where you live there’s going to be something that nature can get you on.
Don is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 3 to 5 inches from the central Texas coast westward into south central Texas...with possible isolated maximum amounts of 7 inches.
” Don is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 3 to 5 inches from the central Texas coast westward into south central Texas...with possible isolated maximum amounts of 7 inches. “
Since our little valley in SW New Mexico has recorded less than an inch of total precipitation since mid-September last year, we’ll gladly take 2 or 3 inches of ‘leftovers’ after Texas is done with it....
;)
Our harsh weather, notably the unrelenting heat, has the beneficial effect of being inhospitable to liberals. To a great extent, liberals tend to congregate in cool, damp, dreary regions (such as Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, Seattle and Boston). They simply are ill-equipped to day after day of triple digit temperatures without rain.
Texans, largely a Conservative lot, are inherently more intelligent and hardy, able to adapt to the vicissitudes of weather extremes. The inferior, sissified liberal just can't handle the way things are in Texas and just ought to remain in their marginalized geographical pockets of like-minded shallowness.
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