Hello, Dolly! (Austin, Corpus Christi, Brownsville: live in, housing, area)

[teatime]

Well, T.S. Dolly is projected to become a hurricane within the next 24 hours and the projected path takes it to Brownsville. We need to keep those folks in our thoughts. Downtown Brownsville floods severely and thousands of people live down there in squalor. Also, there are very poor colonias in the county with lots of substandard housing. A hurricane hit would be devastating.

[Lucidus]

Originally Posted by teatime

Well, T.S. Dolly is projected to become a hurricane within the next 24 hours and the projected path takes it to Brownsville. We need to keep those folks in our thoughts. Downtown Brownsville floods severely and thousands of people live down there in squalor. Also, there are very poor colonias in the county with lots of substandard housing. A hurricane hit would be devastating.

Ok, would it be wrong of me too root for Dolly. Don't get me wrong, I don't want anyone to suffer but sometimes the remnants of hurricanes are a major source of water for West Texas. Last year Erin, or what was left of her, brought lake Colorado City to near its maximum. So, one good tropical storm can be very beneficial.

[teatime]

LOL, no, Lucidus, I'm cheering for her, too, because we sure do need the rain in West Texas. However, I don't want her to hit Brownsville. There's about 100 miles of "not much" north of Brownsville and south of Corpus so I'm hoping she hits there. That would still bring us the rain we need without devastating tens of thousands of people who live in shacks.

[jimboburnsy]

Originally Posted by teatime

LOL, no, Lucidus, I'm cheering for her, too, because we sure do need the rain in West Texas. However, I don't want her to hit Brownsville. There's about 100 miles of "not much" north of Brownsville and south of Corpus so I'm hoping she hits there. That would still bring us the rain we need without devastating tens of thousands of people who live in shacks.

Alright. Everyone pray for peace and rain.

[Muhnay]

I will pray for Peace and Rain, and a Serve cleaning of Brownsville.. maybe after the hurricane we can change the name to Whitesville. =)

[awecelot]

I'm not a meteorologist, but I am taking a meteorology class right now

My prediction is that the storm makes landfall as a Category 2 Hurricane in Kenedy County. Corpus Christi will get a lot more rain and wind than Brownsville will, as CC will be on the north side of the storm.

[case44]

Originally Posted by teatime

LOL, no, Lucidus, I'm cheering for her, too, because we sure do need the rain in West Texas. However, I don't want her to hit Brownsville. There's about 100 miles of "not much" north of Brownsville and south of Corpus so I'm hoping she hits there. That would still bring us the rain we need without devastating tens of thousands of people who live in shacks.

It's between Riviera and Raymondville that you really want the storm to hit, and there's that chance it could go there. That's the ideal location. Otherwise, I just hope it hits Mexico.

[awecelot]

Originally Posted by case44

It's between Riviera and Raymondville that you really want the storm to hit, and there's that chance it could go there. That's the ideal location. Otherwise, I just hope it hits Mexico.

That's where I think it will go...closer to Riviera than Raymondville, though. You really want it to go closer to Raymondville than Riviera, because if it goes closer to Raymondville, the northern part of the storm will be primarily over the King Ranch (with Corpus Christi getting feeder bands and the RGV getting the weaker southern sector of the storm), whereas if the storm goes into Riviera, the northern part of the storm will directly affect Corpus Christi.

[hal512]

Let's just be thankful she shouldn't have time to get any bigger than a Cat 2 and Austin needs the rain just as West Texas does. No twisters or hail just rain! Corpus can withstand a Cat 2 pretty well.

[j96g]

We welcomed the rain in early July, so we are doing the same. Hope it's just a rain maker and by the looks of it, the center hitting us would be better as the stronger winds and rain would be to our north, the area south of Corpus and north of Brownsville.