Good example. That TS got up to 50 mph with almost no distance to intensify. I just don’t see how Don stays below hurricane strength before landfall. But tropical systems can be strange beasts.
And in a slow mover (once landfalling), being on the ‘dirty’ NE quadrant of the track nets you the most rain.
So naturally I’d like to see Don land where Amelia did, at the same speed and trajectory.
Your parents got 16” in 12 hours out of Hermine, who was a fast mover. I think we got 12”, but it filled up Lake Travis within two days, after being about as low and dry as it is today.
There is no salvage for TX corn, wheat, cotton, hay, beef, anything. All we can hope is to wet up the soil for next spring.