So, Emily in the southern Carribean is now a category 4... as of now it appears to be heading toward south Texas - might even curve up this way. I sure hope. We need the rain, bad.

 

A good 3 or 4 inch soaker is just what we need.

We want a major hit here in South Texas to relieve our drought.

 

Poll idea

If it hits you guys we'll get more of the rain than Dennis sent us.

 

Board up.. stay safe.

What sucks is I own a pressure wash business :rolly

 

What is making this one unique for the border is the angle it is coming in. Usually the storm would have to hook west to hit us. The storms are generally headed towards Galveston / Houston.

What sucks is I own a pressure wash business  :rolly

 

 

Mother Nature is giving you a little vacation.

Mother Nature is giving you a little vacation. 

 

Then I could be working 24/7 on the clean up.

Then I could be working 24/7 on the clean up.

 

 

Then you could afford to take a vacation in October up north for some playoff baseball.

Then you could afford to take a vacation in October up north for some playoff baseball. 

 

Nah, I never liked Wrigley

Anyone know how Barbados made it through? (This is my first internet stop this morning before hitting the news sites lol.)

Tex how far are you inland? You might get your wish...

 

It sure looks that way. He's about where the TS inland logo is.

 

Personally, I'm hoping it will curve north.

 

There's a weak low pressure sitting over southwestern Texas that might spin it north...

It sure looks that way.  He's about where the TS inland logo is.

 

Personally, I'm hoping it will curve north.

 

There's a weak low pressure sitting over southwestern Texas that might spin it north...

 

It'll take more than a weak low to move it. Hurricane's make their own weather by and large. Heck even the remnants of Dennis did their own thing up here, even moving east for a while.

If she's anything like the Emily I know, she'll change her mind at the last moment and snow on Florida.

It'll take more than a weak low to move it.  Hurricane's make their own weather by and large.  Heck even the remnants of Dennis did their own thing up here, even moving east for a while.

True. Often, hurricanes are drawn toward "weak low pressure" like a moth to a lightbulb. Hurricane Charley was a good example of that. A weak low pressure inland pulled Charley out of the Gulf and into Punta Gorda area... it was originally supposed to hit Tampa/St. Pete area.

 

It just depends. I hope it curves north but at this point it probably won't.

Tex how far are you inland?  You might get your wish...

 

 

See the yellow line as it moves inland? I'm about halfway from the symbol and the cost directly on the yellow line. I am about 50 miles from Brownsville. The biggest worries I will have are torrential rains and tornadoes that will spin off the hurricane. Well, that and my ability to log in and post I may have to call Kap and have him read me all the threads.

 

It is a little scary looking at the map and seeing a straight line to my house.

I guess paybacks are hell for my how many times FlaSoxxJim was going to get hit thread

See the yellow line as it moves inland? I'm about halfway from the symbol and the cost directly on the yellow line. I am about 50 miles from Brownsville. The biggest worries I will have are torrential rains and tornadoes that will spin off the hurricane. Well, that and my ability to log in and post    I may have to call Kap and have him read me all the threads.

 

It is a little scary looking at the map and seeing a straight line to my house.

I guess paybacks are hell for my how many times FlaSoxxJim was going to get hit thread

 

So you are still in the Harligen Valley? I was down through there as a kid on a vacation. We basically went beach hopping all of the way down from Matagorda Island off of Victoria Texas where my Grandpa lived, all of the way down to S Padre and into Matamoros. I loved it down there.

It sure looks that way.  He's about where the TS inland logo is.

 

Personally, I'm hoping it will curve north.

 

There's a weak low pressure sitting over southwestern Texas that might spin it north...

 

Kap, if you are in Dallas, I would guess you will still get a good amount of rain, even if it hit at the far southern tip of Texas. Dennis rained on three states in the South, ranging from Central MS almost all the way to the SC state line in Georgia.

 

The way hurricanes spin, you should be on the side of it getting the most rain.

Yea, I would guess by later in the weekend we should know if we get something. Actually, some of the impulses from Dennis finally gave us some humidity around here to touch off some popup storms. I'll take what we can get at this point.

Just to show how little we know about forecasting Hurricane's look at all of the different projected paths by all of the different computer forecasting models.

 

The current projection is slightly south of me in Mexico.

 

I saw that most of the projections now have it away from Texas and more into Mexico. You all down there will still get some rain from it though. Did you see the latest on it? 155 mph - 5 more mph it's a cat 5...

I'm being told this one is tracking like Hurricane Beulah, the last Hurricane to hit the Rio Grande Valley. I'm seeing a lot of houses boarded up, especially some of my Mexican-national neighbors who are only here on the weekends.

So what's the latest down there? It looks like it will not hit directly where you are, Tex... at least so far.

 

But Cozymel and Cancun are about to get ROCKED.

Once it leaves the Yucatan, we'll have a better idea. The prevailing wisdom is it will hook south west and land about 60-80 miles south of me. IIRC being north of the strike is better than the south.

 

Plywood is scarcer than hen's teeth. Same with candles and batteries. I'm buying beer and tequilla.

 

And I have no idea what to do with the trampoline besides uphook the springs.

 

Thankfully it isn't during the playoffs.

Stay safe Tex. I gotta hope for the best as my boss and collegue are down there (both live in Harligen (sp?) and work in Matamoros).

 

Now, even though the storm doesn't seem to have much of any northerly track, can you convince Em to send some rain this way?