[TXnMA]

"Yikes,Family member was just told to pack for Texas."

Not bad advice. Remember that Texas is a BIG place. (It's farther from El Paso to LA than it is from my home to El Paso.)

I'm right on the LA-ARK border; anyone who heads,say, 100 miles west of here will probably see near-zero effects from Laura.

Where are they starting from?

TXnMA
  

[fatima]

They are coming in from PA.Working the storm.