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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

After a very quiet hurricane season last year, we here on the Texas coast are bracing for the first tropical storm impact since 2005: Tropical Storm Erin is predicted to make landfall somewhere between Baffin Bay and Brownsville early Thursday morning.

Thankfully, it doesn't look as if the storm will strengthen much before it makes landfall. It's going to dump a lot of rain on the Coastal Bend, however, which is a concern, as we've had so much rainfall this year. The ground is totally saturated and our reservoirs are filled to capacity

I'm not concerned about flooding where I live, but I do worry about high winds and the damage they can cause. If a storm is predicted to have winds higher than gusts of about 80mph, I and my family leave the coast. It's just not worth the risk to stay around in conditions like that! I'm crossing my fingers that we'll not have to evacuate this year.

Song of the moment: "Troubled So Hard," by Paolo Nutini. .

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