Uh-oh!!

[Marilyn]

Don't know if anyone is really interested, but I find weather fascinating. Here's a link to another cool map.

http://www.wunderground.com/wunderma...fx=1&hur.obs=1

[DianaB]

Keep us posted on what's going on! How bad does it have to be for you to evacuate? I know that you're not directly on the coast, Marilyn so I don't know how big of a threat you have to have. Do you just wait for the announcement to evacuate?

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by DianaB

Keep us posted on what's going on! How bad does it have to be for you to evacuate? I know that you're not directly on the coast, Marilyn so I don't know how big of a threat you have to have. Do you just wait for the announcement to evacuate?

We would probably wait for a mandatory evacuation. We weathered a direct hit from a category 1, Hurricane Claudette in 2003. We did evacuate for Hurricane Rita in 2005, but it was occolating between being a category 4 or 5 and was coming directly for us. There was a mandatory evacuation order issued, so we boarded up, packed what we could and left. It veered north however and hit near Beaumont/Port Arthur, so we ran for nothing. As a result, lots of folks are saying they won't run again.

Today, our govenor declared 14 counties in Texas disaster areas and we are one of them. Thought you might enjoy a pic of a disaster area. Attached is a photo out our back yard this afternoon. If you look closely, you can see golfers on the 14th green in the background. (The white PVC thing is our neighbor's soccer back stop. He broke it down for some reason.)

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We aren't seeing much at all from this hurricane, at least not yet here. So far have had a couple of very small showers. We may get some rain tonight or tomorrow.

Our hotels are all packed with evacuees from the valley. Lots of RV's in parking lots around town. I feel for the people in the valley. There are lots of poor people, especially in northern Mexico who will suffer from this storm.

We will be fine here though ladies, so your thoughts are appreciated, very much, but save most of them for later in the season. We may be running next time.

[Dobie]

I just want to put out there, that if any of you EVER have to evacuate your homes due to weather, fire, tornado - my door is open for as long as you would need it - I have a quiet house up in New Hamphire and it's always available to friends.

[Marilyn]

Awwwww, Dobie, thank you so much for your very sweet offer to all of us. We have such a wonderful group of caring ladies on here!!!!

Here's the latest radar. The rain is moving on shore this morning. It's wet outside, but really not storming and the winds aren't too bad. We're supposed to get 30 mph winds today and lots of rain. We'll see how it goes. I have to go to work though. On kinda good thing about a little bad weather is sometimes we get to stay home.

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Have a wonderful day everyone!!! You may wish to say a prayer for the folks down in the Brownsville and Matamoros areas, and beyond. They are in for a mess the next few days. South Padre is supposed to be back up and running this weekend, and people are being told not to cancel their vacation plans. Guess they are used to it on the island.

[Janet]

Just curious, you said you're just getting a little bit of rain, so why did your governor declare your county a disaster area?

[Marilyn]

Originally Posted by Janet

Just curious, you said you're just getting a little bit of rain, so why did your governor declare your county a disaster area?

Part of it is over-reaction since Katrina. The politicians don't want to be accused of not responding quickly enough, so they declare disaster areas well in advance, just in case, so they can get federal relief in quickly should things get bad.

The only real potential for problems here is flooding, should Dolly dump a lot of water. San Antonio could also get a lot of rain and they have major flooding from just thunder storms sometimes. Bexar county (San Antonio) is part of the disaster area. We get their runnoff.

We are under a tornado watch, and Corpus is under a tornado warning. There is a possiblity that a twister is on the ground at the Portlant/Ingleside area. One has not been sited, they are looking at radar and saying this.

We could see a twister in this area, but honestly, it is not likely. The Weather Service is just being cautious.