Hello, Dolly! (Houston, Brownsville, McAllen: how much, school, moving)

[awecelot]

From Intellicast.com

[Marlow]

Originally Posted by awecelot

if it was in the bay, it wasn't a tornado

Picky with the terminology, are ya? A water spout then--is that better?

Things are fine here right now--must be between bands.

[awecelot]

Originally Posted by Marlow

Picky with the terminology, are ya? A water spout then--is that better?

Things are fine here right now--must be between bands.

Much better I did talk to my parents (who live in Portland) earlier, and they said that they heard there was a tornado "on Ocean Drive." If that's true...then there was a tornado...and there might be a lot of damage to expensive homes.

We were hoping for some rain up here in Dallas...looks like we won't get anything.

[teatime]

Wow, my heart goes out to the folks in the Brownsville area. This hurricane is slowing to a crawl and playing with them. The Weather Channel's hurricane expert said they will be having bands of heavy rain up to the next 36 hours.

South Padre is apparently seeing a lot of damage. The hotel Jim Cantore from the W.C. is staying at is losing its roof and they're moving the guests to the lower levels, he said! An apartment complex collapsed, too.

[love roses]

Out here it's still sort of sunny, but lots of big,fluffy gray and white clouds all over as well. I agree, I think it's funny people up here in the Austin area panicking and buying up staples. It's probably just all the new transplants who haven't figured things out yet, so gotta love them. I was gonna go do my regular shopping today too, but forgot about people trying to stock up. Guess I'll go anyway and hope for the best

[GoingHome2TX]

Down here we had about 3 seconds of moisture. The wind is about a 20-30mph breeze, skies are cloudy. Live Oak Co. is in a tornado watch warning until 7 tonight, though. Gonna have to wait and see how it all plays out, I guess.

Got a phone call from my mother in Montana a few minutes ago. Said all her co-workers were scared to death over it. Then when she said that they had 70mph winds last night and this morning, I told her to relay the message that this portion of South Texas is seeing far less damage than that desolate wasteland.

[Muhnay]

I always thought Brownsville needed a good cleaning.. looks like Dolly Maids is doing just that. I can hear it now.. WOW!, Dolly it looks like a Hurricane came though here. =)

Hope the Light house fares well, and everyone stays safe..

http://www.cctexas.com/webcam/

Thats a cam in Corpus.. they are getting some massive rain from this storm.

http://www.spadre.com/surfcam.htm

South Padre Cam, that still works as of this edit..

[jwb123]

Ok we are supposed to be heading out for our annual family beach vaca to port aransas tomorrow. We are supposed to be there Thurs - Sun... what do you all think? Are we in for it??

[tstone]

Originally Posted by Muhnay

I always thought Brownsville needed a good cleaning.. looks like Dolly Maids is doing just that. I can hear it now.. WOW!, Dolly it looks like a Hurricane came though here. =)

Didn't think you could clean someone's house by knocking a bunch of stuff over going ape-sh** with a fire hose.

[Muhnay]

Originally Posted by Jenbar

Ok we are supposed to be heading out for our annual family beach vaca to port aransas tomorrow. We are supposed to be there Thurs - Sun... what do you all think? Are we in for it??

You should be fine.. This storm will be far enough away and smaller as it goes over land. Keep your plans.. better yet if you have hotel reservations, call them and ask.

Your gonna love Port A., I always do.

Originally Posted by tstone

Didn't think you could clean someone's house by knocking a bunch of stuff over going ape-sh** with a fire hose.

Dolly Maids would disagree.. Theres nothing like a good scrubbing like a hurricane. =) ( come on now have a sense of humor. )