Thanks for setting me straight...
Hey, no problemo...
I believe this is the FIRST hurricane I've ever watched in which I have a personal stake in it. My kids haven't seen their Mee-maw & Pee-paw in over a year, and they miss them. I am hoping they'll be able to make it out of Houston before things get nasty.
Not to mention my sister-in-law...it's her kids they have with them. They're just ending a month-long stay with Mom & Dad.
Yeah, we get the flash floods primarily because SA sits at the base of the hill country. We have a ton of dry creekbeds that fill up fast and a lot of low-water crossings. Yesterday was the first rain we have seen in almost two months - most of which days were pushing 100 degrees and beyond. So the ground is like concrete. A steady rain for a day or two would be really nice. But storm-rain - it kind of just washes down the drainage ditches here... just falls so fast it runs off before it can really soak in. Still, no one needs to die for me to have green grass, so if the cane up and fizzled, I'd be ok with that. The Bermuda Hi, if that's the right terminology -finally seems to have broken its hold over Texas and although temps are still in the 90's, we are getting late day T-storms popping up here and there.