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Who will get hit my Emily?  

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  1. 1. Who will get hit my Emily?

    • Kapkomet (Dallas)
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    • Texsox (Rio Grande Valley, South Padre Island)
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    • Roger Clemens (Houston)
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    • Ice Rays (Corpus Cristi Hockey Team)
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    • None of the Above
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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.

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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.

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QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jul 15, 2005 -> 01:05 PM)
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... :pray

 

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.

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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jul 15, 2005 -> 06:12 PM)
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.

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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jul 15, 2005 -> 12:34 PM)
Tex how far are you inland?  You might get your wish...

 

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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 :D 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

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QUOTE(Texsox @ Jul 15, 2005 -> 01:36 PM)
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  :D  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.

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QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jul 15, 2005 -> 06:05 PM)
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... :pray

 

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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). :pray

 

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?

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