Tuesday, August 5, 2008

TS Edouard making landfall East of Houston

We haven't seen much in the way of wind associated with this storm yet. Its just been kind of a slow and steady rain. Looks like we might get more of the storm within the next couple of hours but it really doesn't look very threatening right now.

Of course the local news is reporting this as the storm of the century. Its kind of funny to see them standing by the bay in their full rain suits with a light rain falling. We get storms associated with fall/winter cold fronts that are much worse than this. I guess the danger is in the duration as storms like this can park over an area and dump several inches of rain. Best case scenario for us would see the storm moving slowly to the north throughout the next couple of days. We're in desperate need of rain around here.

Only threat now seems to be some localized flooding. The news is reporting that "brunt" of the storm will hit Houston at 11:00am this morning.

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