NWS Houston/Galveston Concerned:

[southerngale]

It bothers me so much when people post something saying "it's heading towards my house in such-and-such." It's almost like they want to send a message about how hurricane-prone their particular area is or something or they want to get a reaction out of the people on this board.

BOTTOM-LINE: nobody will know until it gets into the GOM which won't be for a couple of days.

What does that have to do with this thread and what the NWS in Houston said?

[GalvestonDuck]

Can someone decipher this?

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/map/images/ens/mslpusanim.gif

Unless I'm reading it wrong (and I am an amateur!), this looks like it takes Dennis towards Corpus Christi.

I can't be reading that right, can I?

[Stratosphere747]

Can someone decipher this?

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/map/images/ens/mslpusanim.gif

Unless I'm reading it wrong (and I am an amateur!), this looks like it takes Dennis towards Corpus Christi.

I can't be reading that right, can I?

Well Duckie, that is what I get from it...Almost Carla like...

Don't show the UTMB'ers that....

[GalvestonDuck]

Can someone decipher this?

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/map/images/ens/mslpusanim.gif

Unless I'm reading it wrong (and I am an amateur!), this looks like it takes Dennis towards Corpus Christi.

I can't be reading that right, can I?

Well Duckie, that is what I get from it...Almost Carla like...

Don't show the UTMB'ers that....

I'm telling ya!

[HouTXmetro]

Well the models keep trending west. One model has the storm approaching the TX/LA coast.

[Stratosphere747]

True...

But it sure is going in the direction the NWS said...Looks like it is going to go north of Jamaica...

Still the do keep mentioning a possible westward trend, although IMO it would have to still make a significant shift to impact us directly..

[HouTXmetro]

True...

But it sure is going in the direction the NWS said...Looks like it is going to go north of Jamaica...

Still the do keep mentioning a possible westward trend, although IMO it would have to still make a significant shift to impact us directly..

Valid point, The NHC is on top of things. Most of us doubted the storm would go north of Jamaica. WHo knows.

[Innotech]

This is just sickening! I'm currently in Europe until the 15th and we have a possible major hurricane threatening my area. I don't have time to dig up my post but I predicted a big gulf storm for the first two weeks in July. I hope it stays far away from Louisiana but it would be just horrible if the AL/FL area had to endure another landfall. My thoughts will be with all my friends along the gulf coast during the next week. I just pray Dennis will spare us all .

Where in Lafayette do you live?
Im on the northside, just east of the I49 corridor and just north of I10. During Lili they evacuated everyhting south of I10. This has potential to cause a major evacuation again out of Southern louisiana if indeed htis storm threatens us similar to Lili. however Im not expecting it to get this far. Still, I have begun putting some of my stuff in boxes just in case.

[Swimdude]

I can't stress this enough - the chance of Dennis becoming a "Texas storm" is slim to nothing. Everything is against the possibility.

[Stratosphere747]

I can't stress this enough - the chance of Dennis becoming a "Texas storm" is slim to nothing. Everything is against the possibility.

Reasoning??

[reeef]

anything can happen

[loon]

I think you can stress it more. I figure you've got atleast 10-15 more posts saying it.

I would like to hear you reasons though, just out of curiousity.

[GalvestonDuck]

I can't stress this enough - the chance of Dennis becoming a "Texas storm" is slim to nothing. Everything is against the possibility.

Praying you're right.

Furthermore, I'm praying that there's a slim to nothing chance of Dennis maintaining major 'cane status and hitting the US at all. TS Dennis would be better, but I'm sure everything suggests intensification, so I'm just dreaming.

It's just that it seems like only yesterday when we dealt with the stress and mess of '04. Can this really all be happening again?? (And my area wasn't even affected by a storm last year, unless you count the remnants of Ivan).

[reeef]

even with the leftovers of ivan my street\backyard = flooded

[HouTXmetro]

(And my area wasn't even affected by a storm last year, unless you count the remnants of Ivan).

Lol, what a joke. They even posted Tropical Storms Warnings for that and we didn't even get a drop of rain.

[JenyEliza]

(And my area wasn't even affected by a storm last year, unless you count the remnants of Ivan).

Lol, what a joke. They even posted Tropical Storms Warnings for that and we didn't even get a drop of rain.

I wish I could say Ivan was a joke for us in Atlanta. He dropped two trees in our yard and we ended up with 12-18 inches of water in our crawl space. I'm still fighting the mold a year later.

On top of that, our "genius" School Superintendant insisted that school go on as scheduled--even though every other school system closed before Ivan made it to Atlanta. Finally, at 1:30-2:30 pm, he called for early closings...right as Ivan's worst was arriving.

Our kids were sent home in school buses, even though there were warnings against "high profile vehicles" traveling on the roads (say...aren't school buses "high profile"?). When I complained to the Superintendant by e-mail, I got a response from his "spokesman" who gave me a bunch of pablum and justified their clear incompetence. I asked for a meeting with the Superintendant several times, but never even actually got to speak with or meet with him (boy have things changed---this is the school district I attended as a child, and my parents would have had a meeting immediately upon request for something like this back in the day).

Ten minutes after the last bus rolled through our neigbhorhood, a tree blew over in my yard...and then 30 minutes later, another. Our school district is just danged lucky no child was injured or killed during Ivan.

Since our school administration has the sense God gave gnats, next time we have a hurricane (or its remnants) that is supposed to pass through Atlanta on a school day, I'll be keeping my kids home. Excused absence or not.

Jeny

[Brent]

On top of that, our "genius" School Superintendant insisted that school go on as scheduled--even though every other school system closed before Ivan made it to Atlanta. Finally, at 1:30-2:30 pm, he called for early closings...right as Ivan's worst was arriving.

That's insane... they closed here for Thursday and Friday(storm came through on Thursday and was forecast to linger) on Wednesday(or was it Tuesday). Turned out Friday a nice day.

So... did you survive Cindy?? I was watching the Atlanta news from WAGA and noticed the flooding.

[JenyEliza]

On top of that, our "genius" School Superintendant insisted that school go on as scheduled--even though every other school system closed before Ivan made it to Atlanta. Finally, at 1:30-2:30 pm, he called for early closings...right as Ivan's worst was arriving.

That's insane... they closed here for Thursday and Friday(storm came through on Thursday and was forecast to linger) on Wednesday(or was it Tuesday). Turned out Friday a nice day.

So... did you survive Cindy?? I was watching the Atlanta news from WAGA and noticed the flooding.

Thanks for asking....

I don't know yet. She's here right now. Matter of fact, a huge rainband is passing through right now. NWS is saying 3-4 inches of rain per hour, and I'd guess that's just about right.

Hopefully the crawl space doesn't flood again...I'll keep ya posted.

PS. How'd you make out? I'm kind of sick of Cindy. Drove right into her early rainbands last night as we made our way home from Houston...so the last 6 hours of our drive was RAIN...which slowed us tremendously. 15 hours total on the road. But, I did wave as we went by your place on I-85!!